After changing Parse::FixedLength a couple versions ago, I recently noticed a couple of tests that should have been failing, but weren't (no, changes were not backward compatible, shame on me :). So I fixed the module, updated the tests and uploaded to CPAN. Though I'm still using archaic print "not " unless $sometest; print "ok\n"-type tests. It was the first thing I saw back when I wrote my first module, so that's what I emulated. I'll try something more modern for my next module, and maybe even write something more than a glorified pack/unpack :-)
I've been playing with Wx, trying to write a database app, but I get hung up on little things, like arguments to functions, and what functions to call in the first place, and what widget I want to use. I look at the wxWidgets docs to get the arg list for a method for a widget, but it doesn't seem to work, look at the samples that come with the wxPerl distribution, but they don't always say what all the args being used are for (and they're often 0 or undef), or I try to create the desired thing in wxGlade, and generate the perl code and use that as a template/starting point (e.g. it took me an hour to get a couple of buttons on a toolbar -- maybe it wasn't an hour, but it seemed like it). Maybe I'm being too ambitious, but I can't/don't want to just use wxGlade because I want to dynamically create widgets, and wxGlade uses Sizers (which in Tk would be kind of like using pack instead of place), and I will probably need to manually place things by coordinates instead of using Sizers (though I may change down the road).
