Re: Some beginner's questions

[James Curbo <james teyandei net>]

Daniel Kasak wrote:
> I'm back again after a reasonable break in which I struggled more with 
> MS Access.
> I've got Glade-2 up and running, and I want to use Gtk2::GladeXML ( 
> which is also working ).
>
> The instructions say I can use:
> $gladexml->signal_autoconnect_from_package([PACKAGE])
>
> I assume the [PACKAGE] is referring to a Perl package which contains 
> some functions or subs or whatever ... but I'm not sure how to turn my 
> code into a package. Can I just create a file: file.pl and then refer to 
> it, eg:
> $gladexml->signal_autoconnect_from_package('/path/to/file.pl')
> or something like that.
>
> Is that what I'm supposed to do?
>
> Sorry. Perl beginner :) I've done some db-maintenance stuff, but nothing 
> complicated.
>
> While I'm at it, are there any gotchas ( with Perl GTK2 ) I should be 
> aware of when moving this stuff to Windows? I'm attemting the initial 
> development under Linux, but will have to deploy on Windows for now.
>
> Dan

When it refers to packages it refers to Perl's packages, you are 
correct. They're namespaces. 'perldoc -f package' and 'man perlmod' for 
more info.

For starters I would just suggest using main. e.g.

$gladexml->signal_autoconnect_from_package('main');

There are a couple of Gtk2::GladeXML tutorials available, you should be 
able to find them in the list archives.

Can't answer the Windows questions as I've never used gtk2-perl with it.

James