update: you must
alwaysuse strict;, always!!! The font constants aren't being exported to the correct namespace, so the correct constructor isn't called.
What did you expect to get?
I don't know the nitty gritty, but basically if you're going to be using fonts, you need to have some windows, see the hello.pl wxPerl sample
#!/usr/bin/perl
######################################################################
+#######
## Name: hello.pl
## Purpose: Hello wxPerl sample
## Author: Mattia Barbon
## Modified by:
## Created: 2/11/2000
## RCS-ID:
## Copyright: (c) 2000 Mattia Barbon
## Licence: This program is free software; you can redistribute it
+ and/or
## modify it under the same terms as Perl itself
######################################################################
+#######
use strict;
use Wx;
# every program must have a Wx::App-derive class
package MyApp;
use vars qw(@ISA);
@ISA = qw(Wx::App);
# this is called automatically on object creation
sub OnInit {
my( $this ) = shift;
# create a new frame
my( $frame ) = MyFrame->new();
# set as top frame
$this->SetTopWindow( $frame );
# show it
$frame->Show( 1 );
}
package MyFrame;
use vars qw(@ISA);
@ISA = qw(Wx::Frame);
use Wx::Event qw(EVT_PAINT);
# this imports some constants
use Wx qw(wxDECORATIVE wxNORMAL wxBOLD);
use Wx qw(wxDefaultPosition);
use Wx qw(wxWHITE);
sub new {
# new frame with no parent, id -1, title 'Hello, world!'
# default position and size 350, 100
my( $this ) = shift->SUPER::new( undef, -1, 'Hello, world!',
wxDefaultPosition , [350, 100] );
# create a new font object and store it
$this->{FONT} = Wx::Font->new( 40, wxDECORATIVE, wxNORMAL, wxBOLD, 0
+ );
# set background colour
$this->SetBackgroundColour( wxWHITE );
$this->SetIcon( Wx::GetWxPerlIcon() );
# declare that all paint events will be handled with the OnPaint met
+hod
EVT_PAINT( $this, \&OnPaint );
return $this;
}
sub OnPaint {
my( $this, $event ) = @_;
# create a device context (DC) used for drawing
my( $dc ) = Wx::PaintDC->new( $this );
# select the font
$dc->SetFont( $this->font );
# darw a friendly message
$dc->DrawText( 'Hello, world!', 10, 10 );
}
sub font {
$_[0]->{FONT};
}
package main;
# create an instance of the Wx::App-derived class
my( $app ) = MyApp->new();
# start processing events
$app->MainLoop();
# Local variables: #
# mode: cperl #
# End: #
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