Don't know how I missed this. Nice write up. Probably would have appreciated it more a month or two ago :)

Next they need to write a tutorial on installing it. I had all quite a difficult time with the newest releases.

Anyone know why they went went from 1.3 to 2.x? The biggest changes I see are SDL::Console is gone and some constants have been moved and some changes to the event handler.

I wish there was a way of figuring out the rendered size of TT text. Anyone have any ideas?

On a related note, some of you may or may not know, I've been working on a digital dashboard for my car based on Perl/SDL. Well the components I need to actually interface the wiring are coming today. That means instead of the app just randomly simulating the inputs, there's a decent chance that I'll have the prototype installed this weekend and actually being driven by my instrument panel :)

There's a video of it (and my messy desk) running here. Digital Dash ~5mb divex avi

Also a nice screen cap here
update Duh, just saw the width method. Could have sworn that wasn't in 1.3 series.