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Padre::Plugin::Cookbook Recipe-04 Draft

This page complements Padre::Plugin::Cookbook Recipe-04, It is just meant to be an aid, with a suggested layout and some ideas to speed you along, enjoy.

• Recipe-04 is all about ListCtrl or ConfigDB now available via Padre::Plugin::CookBook see trunk
  • You may find this helpful, see: Download Padre from Repository

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Tree Layout

This has been covered in previous Recipes, here for continuity.

Padre-Plugin-Cookbook/
├── fbp
│   └── Recipe04
│       ├── AboutFB.fbp
│       ├── FrameFB.fbp (wx-frame unstable)
│       └── MainFB.fbp
├── lib
│   └── Padre
│       └── Plugin
│           ├── Cookbook
│           │   └── Recipe04
│           │       ├── About.pm
│           │       ├── FBP
│           │       │   ├── AboutFB.pm
│           │       │   └── MainFB.pm
│           │       └── Main.pm
│           └── Cookbook.pm
├── Changes
├── Makefile.PL
├── MANIFEST
├── t
│   ├── 00.load.t
│   ├── 01-Cookbook.t
│   ├── 05-About04.t
│   └── 05-Recipe04.t
└── xt
    ├── changes.t
    ├── critic.t
    ├── hasversion.t
    ├── meta.t
    ├── minimumversion.t
    ├── podcoverage.t
    ├── podspell.t
    └── pod.t

NB Remember Padre can do some of this for you, see: Project Skeleton Generation

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wxFormBuilder (xml)

• Use wxFormBuilder, v3.1.70
• Multiple! Why, well it's either a Wx thing or P-P-FormBuilder limitation, this is pants! Glade allows multi-dialogue's in single file.
  • This is in progress of being updated, so will be covered in a future Recipe-nn
• The naming convention chosen starts to make more sense when you think about multiple dialogue's.
• There is no pretty table to explain what's going on, you have to use wxFormBuilder, I suggest that you also view the *FB.fbp & *FB.pm files as well.

Create MainFb.fbp

wxWidget		Properties				Events
Icon	Type	name	label/title	public	other	type	value
	Project	Cookbook	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
	Dialog	Padre::Plugin::Cookbook::Recipe04::FBP::MainFB	Main	n/a	wxRESIZE_BORDER	n/a	n/a

Create AboutFb.fbp

wxWidget		Properties				Events
Icon	Type	name	label/title	public	other	type	value
	Project	Cookbook	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
	Dialog	Padre::Plugin::Cookbook::Recipe04::FBP::AboutFB	About	n/a	wxRESIZE_BORDER	n/a	n/a

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Padre::Plugin::FormBuilder

• Padre::Plugin::FormBuilder dose not support Wx menus yet, hence fudge work around in Main.
• Use generator to create MainFB.pm from MainFB.fbp
• Use generator to create AboutFB.pm from AboutFB.fbp
  • Tip have Padre::Plugin::Cookbook::Recipe04::Main.pm Open before running generator.
• Padre::Plugin::FormBuilder use FBP::Perl ();
• You need to read Source FBP::Perl for which Wx features are supported, it's the only reference :(

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Plug-in Code

• Read POD for Padre::Plugin
• Read POD for Cookbook.pm, Main.pm and About.pm.

ListCtrl

• todo

Padre::DB

All DB access is via Padre::DB, you will also need to look at ORLite for supported features. Other wise it's just SQL via Padre DBC.

• Read POD for ​Padre::DB
• Read POD for ​ORLite

NB ConfigDB is just an SQLite DB.

StatusBar

We have assumed Show low-priority info messages on statusbar (not in a popup) is true,
if not I suggest you set this in Tools->Preferences->Apperance

sub clean_session {
    my $self = shift;
    my $main = $self->main;

    $main->info('Cleaning Session relation');
    ....
}

ProgressBar

• Read POD for ​Padre::Wx::Progress

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Run

• perl dev -a -die
• You should now have Cookbook in your Tools menu, enjoy.

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Foot Notes

Testing

These may help get you thinking in the write direction.

• ​Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook
• ​An Introduction to Test Driven Development Using Perl

Padre can help you with this, see: Automated Build and Test

Exrta Tests

• I have recently been exposed to ​Test::XT, really cool.
• Here is the reasoning ​Journal article Ouch.

Alias++

Plugin attribute config

Plugins DO have the ability to store stuff in the attribute config

$plugin->config_read
$plugin->config_write

Alias++

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