newGroup.al is missing

timpoiko has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello all Monks. I wanted to take GD:SVG in use, so I wrote man GD::SVG and read it. I found a piece of code, so I took it and tried to run.

 #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use GD::Simple;

GD::Simple->class('GD::SVG');

my $img = GD::Simple->new(500,500);
$img->bgcolor('white');
$img->fgcolor('blue');

my $g1 = $img->newGroup('circle in square');
$g1->rectangle(100,100,400,400);
$g1->moveTo(250,250);

my $g2 = $g1->newGroup('circle and boundary');
$g2->fgcolor('black');
$g2->bgcolor('red');
$g2->ellipse(200,200);

print $img->svg;
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However, only outcome from this is:

$ perl test.pl 
Can't locate auto/GD/newGroup.al in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /us
+r/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.20.0
+ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_6
+4-linux-gnu/perl/5.20 /usr/share/perl/5.20 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .
+) at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/GD/Simple.pm line 1007.
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Googling does not help at all and I can't found this "newGroup.al" from the CPAN nor Debian's package repositories. So what I can to do to get this example code working?

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Re: newGroup.al is missing by toolic (Bishop) on Sep 15, 2014 at 13:35 UTC
I also get this error when I run your code, which is a copy of the code in GD::SVG for which the module author states: Finally, here is a fully worked example of using the GD::Simple module to make the syntax cleaner: This should be reported as an issue. I was able to run this code example from the POD without error: `use GD::SVG; my $img = GD::SVG::Image->new(500,500); my $white = $img->colorAllocate(255,255,255); my $black = $img->colorAllocate(0,0,0); my $blue = $img->colorAllocate(0,0,255); my $red = $img->colorAllocate(255,0,0); $img->startGroup('circle in square'); $img->rectangle(100,100,400,400,$blue); $img->startGroup('circle and boundary'); $img->filledEllipse(250,250,200,200,$red); $img->ellipse(250,250,200,200,$black); $img->endGroup; $img->endGroup; print $img->svg;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: newGroup.al is missing
by toolic (Bishop) on Sep 15, 2014 at 13:35 UTC

GD::SVG

Finally, here is a fully worked example of using the GD::Simple module to make the syntax cleaner:

This should be reported as an issue.

I was able to run this code example from the POD without error:

use GD::SVG;
my $img   = GD::SVG::Image->new(500,500);
my $white = $img->colorAllocate(255,255,255);
my $black = $img->colorAllocate(0,0,0);
my $blue  = $img->colorAllocate(0,0,255);
my $red   = $img->colorAllocate(255,0,0);
 
$img->startGroup('circle in square');
$img->rectangle(100,100,400,400,$blue);
 
$img->startGroup('circle and boundary');
$img->filledEllipse(250,250,200,200,$red);
$img->ellipse(250,250,200,200,$black);
 
$img->endGroup;
$img->endGroup;
 
print $img->svg;
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