NAME¶
Wx - interface to the wxWidgets cross-platform GUI toolkit
SYNOPSIS¶
use Wx;
my $app = Wx::SimpleApp->new;
my $frame = Wx::Frame->new( undef, -1, 'Hello, world!' );
$frame->Show;
$app->MainLoop;
DESCRIPTION¶
The Wx module is a wrapper for the wxWidgets (formerly known as wxWindows) GUI
toolkit.
This module comes with extensive documentation in HTML format; you can download
it from
http://wxperl.sourceforge.net/
INSTALLATION¶
Please see
docs/INSTALL.pod in source package.
Runtime Assertions¶
For wxWidgets 2.9.3 and greater, Wx can switch runtime assertions on and off. In
wxWidgets 2.9.x and above, there are three levels of debuging
0 - No debug assertions 1 - Low cost debug assertions 2 - All debug assertions
If you used Alien::wxWidgets 0.61 or greater to build your wxWidgets, then the
libraries will be built using debug level 1. If you specified
--wxWidgets-debug for a debug build, then debug level 2 will have been used.
By default in Wx, debug assertions are switched off. However you may switch
assertions on by using
Wx::EnableDefaultAssertHandler();
you can switch assertions off again by using
Wx::DisableAssertHandler();
You may also set an environment variable to cause all invocations of Wx to call
Wx::EnableDefaultAssertHandler().
export WXPERL_OPTIONS=ENABLE_DEFAULT_ASSERT_HANDLER
This may be useful during tests.
The environment setting WXPERL_OPTIONS can contain multiple options. Options are
checked for using a simple regex match. So
export WXPERL_OPTIONS="ENABLE_DEFAULT_ASSERT_HANDLER SOME_OTHER_SETTING"
would evaluate as ENABLE_DEFAULT_ASSERT_HANDLER being set.
If you want to handle assert failures yourself you can override
wxApp::OnAssertFailure in your Wx::App derived class.
sub OnAssertFailure {
my ( $self, $file, $line, $function, $condition, $msg ) = @_;
......
}
For wxWidgets 2.8.x, the assert methods have no effect. You may however still
usefully override wxApp::OnAssertFailure in a debug build.
Running on Mac OSX¶
From version 0.98 wxPerl no longer needs to use the special startup executable
'wxperl' to run scripts on the Mac. The ordinary perl interpreter now works
without problems. This is because wxPerl now contains code that brings the
running application to the front and gives it the focus.
In a syntax checking editor you may prevent Wx code from being given focus as
the front process by setting an environment variable
export WXPERL_OPTIONS=NO_MAC_SETFRONTPROCESS
or
$ENV{WXPERL_OPTIONS} = 'NO_MAC_SETFRONTPROCESS';
The environment setting WXPERL_OPTIONS can contain multiple options. Options are
checked for using a simple regex match. So
export WXPERL_OPTIONS="NO_MAC_SETFRONTPROCESS SOME_OTHER_SETTING"
would evaluate as NO_MAC_SETFRONTPROCESS being set.
The code that makes the SetFrontProcess call is in Wx::Mini as
Wx::MacSetFrontProcess();
so it is also straightforward to override this method if you wish.
Finally, any code can force the running application to become the front process
regardless of environment settings by calling the xs method directly. (Note
the underscore in the method name).
Wx::_MacSetFrontProcess();
Locale Behaviour¶
Beginning with 2.9.0 wxWidgets sets the application locale to the current system
locale. Formally in wxWidgets 2.8.x, the locale by default was 'C'.
A problem arises because in addition to loading gettext translation files, this
affects other C calls like printf, sprintf,...
Perl makes calls to these functions when formatting numbers. Number formatting
always uses underlying C library functions. The statements 'use locale', or
'no locale' make no difference here.
So, if your locale is 'de' then when Wx starts, the C library locale gets set
accordingly.
use Wx;
print 8.3
will output 8,3 to the terminal. Formatting uses ',' as the fractional
separator.
This, whilst possibly correct, isn't what most users will be expecting.
If you want to set the locale to the system default you can do so explicitly.
$app->{locale} = Wx::Locale->new( &Wx::wxLANGUAGE_DEFAULT );
You can then also reset just the locale for number formatting to 'C' if that is
what you require
use POSIX qw( setlocale LC_NUMERIC );
setlocale( LC_NUMERIC, C );
This code applies equally regardless of which wxWidgets version is being used.
Windows XP look¶
For standalone (packed using PAR, Perl2Exe, Perl2App, ...) applications to get
Windows XP look, a file named "App.exe.manifest" (assuming the
program is named "App.exe") and containing the text below must
either be placed in the same directory as the executable file or compiled into
the file itself. The module Win32::Exe can place a manifest in an executable
file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" type="win32" name="Super.wxPerl.Application" />
<description>Super wxPerl Application</description>
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity type="win32"
name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
version="6.0.0.0"
publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
language="*"
processorArchitecture="*" />
</dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
<security>
<requestedPrivileges>
<requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false" />
</requestedPrivileges>
</security>
</trustInfo>
</assembly>
AUTHOR¶
Mattia Barbon <mbarbon@cpan.org>
LICENSE¶
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.