Visualizing Music with SDL and Perl
In this edited excerpt from the SDL Perl manual, lead developer Kartik Thakore walks through a non-game application of SDL and Perl, building a music player with visualizations in just a few lines of code.
Charting Data at the Bottom of the World
I have an odd job: I’m the only programmer for about 500 miles. I look after experiments on a remote Antarctic research station and look after the data they produce. As well as the scientific stuff knocking about, we…
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Test-Driving X11 GUIs
Driving X11 GUIs using X11::GUITest Introduction Interfaces to GUI applications like DCOP or D-BUS allow you to interact with GUI applications in order to get at their internal states or set some arbitrary states. Sometimes GUIs don’t allow for…
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Making Menus with wxPerl
In a previous article about wxPerl published on Perl.com, Jouke Visser taught the very basics of wxPerl programming. In this article, I will continue with Jouke’s work, explaining how to add menus in our wxPerl applications. I will cover…
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Data Munging with Sprog
We’ve all been there-a data translation problem rears its head and you reach for your toolkit of Perl snippets. It might involve parsing a CSV file, extracting MIME attachments, generating bulk SQL insert statements, or scraping data from a…
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Accessible Software
Last year Perl.com published an article about pVoice. You learned what pVoice is, why it was built, and where it was supposed to go. Maybe you wanted to do something for disabled people yourself, by writing something like a…
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Photo Galleries with Mason and Imager
Creating a photo gallery is usually considered a daunting task. Lots of people have tried it, not many have succeeded. One of the reasons for so many similar projects is that they don’t often integrate well into an existing…
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Graphics Programming with Perl
I recently received Martien Verbruggen’s long-awaited “Graphics Programming in Perl,” and I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. As he notes himself, “I didn’t think there would be enough coherent material to write such a book, and…
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A Drag-and-Drop Primer for Perl/Tk
As it happens, no matter how much I write about Perl/Tk, there’s always something left unsaid. A case in point is the topic of drag and drop, which didn’t make it into our book, Mastering Perl/Tk. This article describes…
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Writing GUI Applications in Perl/Tk
“This article originally appeared in Visual Developer Magazine” Perl is officially known as the “Practical Extraction and Report Language,” in part because of its extremely robust text handling abilities. Perl’s author, Larry Wall, has a much more colorful name…
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Perl/Tk Tutorial
Table of Contents Essential Perl/Tk Programming A Graphic Authorizing Example TK Overview A Pay Calculator Example Creating A Window Adding A Menubar Adding Choices To A Menubar More Menubar Choices …
