[wxperl-users] wxPdfDocument (was RE: DateTime)

[Mark W. <ma...@ne...>]

Hi Mattia,

I figured it out and I have been committing already.

In a previous mail I explained I was tackling wxPdfDocument (from wxCode).
It seems like a nice simple, fast, cross platform method of generating PDF
documents without the current way I have been doing it using printer drivers
(which only works on Win32 at present anyway).

Well since that mail I have managed to get it to compile and I am writing
examples as I wrap the methods. So I am very happy that I have got this far
but it felt like I had to do a lot of hacking to get things working and
seems to be messy.

I have attached an archive of the [pdf] folder which lives under
[CVSROOT/wxPerl/ext]. What is the best / recommended way to include/package
this? Should I create a perl package or do you want to add it to wxPerl?

One of the issues was that I had to manually copy wxpdfdoc.dll into the
auto/Wx/PdfDocument folder to simply get things working? This needs to be
corrected, any pointers?

Since this is my first major attempt, could you have a look through the
files and see if I am doing things correctly / acceptably (I also hacked
Makefile.PL more than seems necessary). Is this right?

A new problem now is if I sublass wxPdfDocument my Header() and Footer()
subs are not called (as in test2.pl). These are virtual methods and I
started looking for similar code in other classes but it looked really
confusing.

How do I create a hash instead of a scalar?

In test3.pl I had to create the new() and explicitly bless the subclass. Is
it not good enough to simply set the ISA inheritance tree using "use base
qw( Wx::PdfDocument )'" ??

Many thanks for your (or anyone else) input.
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Mattia Barbon <mat...@li...>
[mailto:mat...@li...] 
Sent: 29 January 2006 01:14 PM
To: mark
Subject: RE: DateTime

  Hi,
shame on me! It took 5 days to add you and another week to send this mail.
Now you should finally have checkin permission. If not please send an
(angry) mail to mat...@da... (my work address).

Sorry.
Mattia