Learning wxPerl and wxWidgets

For those like me (Gabor) who lack imagination here is an explanation of the stack.

• wxWidgets is the name of the C++ library that can be installed either by your operating systems package management tool ( aptitude install wx-common in case of Debian ) or by installing Alien::wxWidgets from CPAN
• ​Scintilla is an editor component written in C++ and used in many editors. It has been included in wxWidgets ad the STC or wxStyledTextCtrl and is used in Padre.
• wxPerl is the name of the Perl binding to wxWidgets (or wrapper if you prefer that word) - It is packaged as the Wx distro on CPAN. Some of the recent Linux distros might also have.
• Above all that comes our code (Padre in our case)

​Home of wxPerl

downloadable version: ​http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxperl/wxPerl-0.82-wx-2.8.7-docs-html.zip

​Home of wxWidgets

​tutorial of Mattia Barbon

​tutorial by Jouke Visser

​Documentation of Wx::StyledTextCtrl

​http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/classwx_styled_text_ctrl.html

​stock items in wx

• PerlMonks? articles
  • ​http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=122227
  • ​http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=112297
  • ​http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=152323
  • ​http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=153366
  • ​http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=184685
  • ​http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=194611
  • ​http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=199840
  • ​http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=164341
  • ​http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=287396
  • ​http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=290475
  • ​http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=219778

The versions of my wxWidgtes and Scintilla

The latest version of Alien::wxWidgtes 0.40 released on oct 15, 2008 is using wxWidgets 2.8.8 ( if I am correct that this is the indicating file:

​http://search.cpan.org/src/MBARBON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.40/patches/data )

which in turn uses Scintilla 1.70 based on this file contrib/src/stc/scintilla/README.txt in the wxWidgets 2.8.8 source code.

According to ​http://www.wxwidgets.org/ the latest wxWidgets version is 2.8.9, released on sept 22, 2008.

Based on file contrib/src/stc/scintilla/README.txt 2.8.9 also uses version 1.70 of Scintilla.

According to ​http://www.scintilla.org/ the latest version is 1.77, released on Oct 18, 2008 while 1.70 was released 20 June 2006, more than 2 years ago. ​http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html

I guess in order to get a newer version of Scintilla someone first has to integrate it into wxWidgtes and once it is released someone has to integrate it into wxPerl.

According to ​http://trac.wxwidgets.org/browser/wxWidgets/trunk/src/stc/scintilla/README.txt the head of wxWidgtes currently contains Scintilla 1.75

Perl 5.10 support (eg. parsing) was added to 1.76 (see ​http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html )