Hello Monks!
I have a question and it may be quite elaborate. I've spent a day in this problem and maybe there isn't a straight forward solution or I may just be stupid!
So here I go: I've ActiveState Perl v5.8. I'm using WxPerl to create a GUI.
Lets say I have two text fields (WxTextCtrl) from which I take inputs. I then use WWW::Mechanize to fill in a web form with these two inputs and submit the form (consider the code below).

Now the problem is that it doesn't work! Its not a problem with HTTP or any other network related stuffs. When I just pass simple string value as follows for example "$title = "whatever"; and $commentfile = "file.htm"", the program works but when I take content of text box and fill in the form, it doesn't work.
The only explanation that I can think of is because WxTextCtrl->GetValue() returns WxString. Since WxString is derived from std::string I don't think this should happen!
Has anyone faced similar sort of problem?
I tried $title = sprintf("%s",$title) in attempt to convert $title from WxString to std::string, but to no avail (or was this stupid attempt :P). 
sub __mechanize_http
{
  $win = @_;
  $title = $win->{titleTxt}->GetValue(); #$win is the main window and 
+titleTxt is the name of one of the text field. GetValue() will return
+ the content of text field in WxString fromat.

  $commentfile = $win->{fileNameTxt}->GetValue(); 
  #Wx::TextCtrl->GetValue() returns WxString.

  print "\nTitle: ",$title;
  print "\nOutput: ", $commentfile;
        
  my $url = "http://www.example.com/";

  my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck => 1);
        
  $mech->agent_alias ( "Windows IE 6" );

  $mech->get($url) or die "Can't even get $url: " . 
  $mech->response->status_line unless ($mech->success);
  $mech->form_name('AddForm');
  $mech->field(title => $title);
  $mech->field(commentfile => $commentfile);
  $mech->submit();
}

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In reply to Question on WxString (WxPerl) and WWW::Mechanize by Ash Rai

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