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Good morning, this will be about GCL (my attempt to make WxPerl programming fun) and I want alsohear from you if its allright to talk about that at this stage of development on Perl Workshop (one month to go so a lot will change).

Cheerio, in case you missed me, started to study again (compunter science and music) so had almost none time for Perl. Even worse, I was forced to learn and write Java. My complaint on international human rights court is pending. But now are holidays, time to prepare exams and .. to reflect about my open source activities.

I currently write a commercial app and found out that Wx::RadioButtons work differently under MacOS. These simply ignore the constant &Wx::wxRB_GROUP and slap together all the groups of a dialog. By toying around I found a way how to get several radio buttons (these labeled, round things from only one can be selected) in one dialog (following some style guidelines I guess), just put them on separate Wx::Panel. Than I remembered that Wx::Perl::RadioGroup does this anyway, and using them you also don't have to know about…

After the first burst of rants ähem layout of my cody GUI DSL I call in lack for a catchy bling name : GCL there are still some important holes to fill. Because the issue is not only to save you from boilerplate, but also saving you from mistakes and bad quality layout.

The simple goal of Wx::Perl::Smart (WPS now for short) is to make WxPerl - GUI programing fast, fun and technically sober. By that I mean you still have full access under the hood (like Moose does) to all features of the old ways. Oh, and speaking of OO, I decided using no framework (yet), not even Moo. While sitting on top of Wx, you don't count bytes in memory, but there is no big syntactical gain now, since there are almost no attributes and the ones I have need a special treatment as described further along this article.