Re: [wxperl-users] Feature requests

[Mattia B. <mb...@ds...>]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:27:59 +0200 Jouke Visser <jo...@pv...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Mattia, I have a few requests for wxWindows classes to wrap in wxPerl:
> 
> 1. Could you wrap Wx::Wave in wxPerl? It would provide a nice 
> multi-platform .wav player. There is no Perl module on CPAN that can 
> play .wav files on Windows *and* linux using the same interface yet.
  Surely not for 0.12 (if I keep adding things, I will
never release it...)

> 2. I was playing with Wx::EvtHandler and the Disconnect method only 
> allowed me to use the second form, using the 'lastid' parameter. I have 
> no clue what I should fill in there, and using the default -1 didn't 
> work. I think the first form of Disconnect ($handler->Disconnect(id, 
> eventtype)) would be much easier to use. Could you allow this?
  Using -1 should work (test case?). If you added the event handler
using some EVT_FOO, you can use EVT_FOO( ..., undef ) to disconnect it
(if it does not work, it is a bug). (this is from 0.12).

> 3. Is there a possibility to wrap Wx::AutomationObject in the windows 
> version of wxPerl? That would allow me to discard Win32::OLE as an extra 
> module to use in my programs.
  Given that there already is Win32::OLE, this gets a very low priority.
I will accept patches wrapping it.

> 4. The same goes for Wx::DllLoader, which would prevent me from using 
> Win32::API
  No, Win32::API provides C/Perl glue code, which is not provided by
Wx::DllLoader. Wx::DllLoader would offer the same functionalities as
DynaLoader.

> 5. One very important feature request for me personally would be to wrap 
> Wx::MemoryFSHandler. In the wxPerl 0.12 documentation you state that 
> this class is not implemented, however from the demo.pl and from my own 
> experience I know that Wx::ZipFSHandler and Wx::InternetFSHanderl *are* 
> implemented. I presume the documentation is right and that the 
> MemoryFSHandler is *not* currently implemented, which is something I 
> can't see why.
Well, for no particular reason. Again, will not be in 0.12.

Regards
Mattia