Bugs

Help tab should consist of more than an "About" entry. If it doesn't have Help...don't call it Help.

Nope. Putting "about" in the help menu is standard GUI design under Windows. (theres even some dumb acronym for it :-) Although I agree that putting "help" in the help menu is usually more important than putting "about" in the help menu. I assume that this is an early release so he's probably waiting for some users (and English ones at that) to help write up his help files.

Hmm, on second though, im guessing, but somehow i suspect that if there _had_ been help there it would have been in german. :-)

Yves / DeMerphq
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Hmm, agree that the "About" tabs are usually under "Help" menus in most Windows apps, however when there is only "About", I have usually seen it under a (redundantly named) "About" menu.

Style I guess, I just think that if you advertise Help, it should be there :) And you may be right, help may be on the way and he is using it as a placeholder.

"Nothing is sure but death and taxes" I say combine the two and its death to all taxes!

Sadly I didn't notice anything indicating OS flavours on the page, so I was disappointed to discover it's all .exe's,
given that Perl is an interpreted language most of the time.

When you said you wanted us to look at it, I thought it was in some capacity greater than beta-tester.
I thought perhaps you were looking to release the code as open source, like source forge

I'd love to test the code on my Debian Box where I develop when I'm not using SunOS..
Any chance of putting the source up there? So it can be run on several platforms, I feel it would be for your benefit also.

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You may want to try Guido
This is a Perl/Tk App for building Perl/Tk Apps and may be of some use to you.

$ unzip -l pd.zip
Archive:  pd.zip
  Length     Date   Time    Name
 --------    ----   ----    ----
   421888  08-07-02 17:30   files/about.exe
     4092  11-11-00 13:22   files/com.nee
       96  10-21-00 11:47   files/empty.pfm
   683008  12-29-00 16:59   files/pdesign.exe
   158208  12-29-00 16:58   Setup.exe
 --------                   -------
  1267292                   5 files
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Looking at the contents of the zip, it looks like the app is a Windows binary, so I guess that refers to the generated code.

You may not to find a lot of monks here who run Windows, AND are willing to install binaries off of the net...

I certainly won't at the office, although I might try this out once I get home, since it does look interesting.
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I was, still am, planning on writing one (a little simple) in wxPerl (it would be sizer-oriented and would generate code something like this).

I couldn't figure things out really quickly, so i'm wondering if there is a tutorial on using your gizmo?
( some things are not obvious to me, and i'd hate to spend hours decoding. I like guides. I spent about 10 minutes giving it a shot.)

I am a little accustomed to using that other non-free multi-language Wx GUI designer (forget the name, haven't used it in a while).

Can you post some example generated code? (i really would appreciate a tutorial)

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But the boys are right, you should say that you wrote it in Delphi, and perhaps provide source as well. (there are a few perl/delphi hackers here that just might contribute... me included.)

Oh, im assuming you did it in delphi.... Please tell me it isnt VB :-)

Yves / DeMerphq
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Software Engineering is Programming when you can't. -- E. W. Dijkstra (RIP)

Then you would have a really great example, and it would be in pure Perl/Tk.

I used to use an expensive GUI generator called UIMX, which had been bootstrapped to create itself. It was easy to discover the capabilities of UIMX by just running it.

It should work perfectly the first time! - toma