This is very timely for me -- I'm looking into a way of developing an application that will run on both Windows and OS X (and ideally I can develop on Linux), and as part of my search I found Wx. Great, I thought, the "Hello, World!" example works -- what else ya got?

Ah, Wx::Demo. Great. Hmm.

Well, the code's installed, but there's no way to run the demo. Anyway, after a couple of dead ends, I finally figured out 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Wx;
use Wx::Demo;

my $app = Wx::SimpleApp->new;
my $frame = Wx::Demo->new;

$frame->Show;
$app->MainLoop;

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was the answer. Not terribly difficult, but I sure wish that code fragment had been added to the README. (Yes, I know I can file a bug on CPAN, and perhaps even make a pull request for the change -- I just figured this out yesterday.)

Alex / talexb / Toronto

Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

In reply to Re: The problem of documenting complex modules. by talexb
in thread The problem of documenting complex modules. by BrowserUk

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