Phoenix.pm: PRIMA - Take 2
Doug Miles
doug.miles at bpxinternet.com
Mon Jul 21 15:52:42 CDT 2003
Robert Lindley wrote:
> Adventures in PRIMA land.
>
> Downloaded the PRIMA that matched my PERL (ActiveState build 806)
> and installed it. (I have Windoze 98. at home and NT4 at work)
>
> Used file: Prima-1.11-MSWin32-ActivePerl-806.zip
>
> Got a warning message in the install log (with both NT & 98) that
> C:/PERL\BIN was not in my path. It turns out that that message was
> bogus. My path actually starts with C:\PERL\BIN. So, not a problem.
>
> Also, in the install log it said to type VB to run the Visual Builder.
> That would work on *nix, but not yukky ole MS-DOS. So made up a VB.BAT
> file containing the line "PERL C:\PERL\BIN\VB" and put it in
> C:\PERL\BIN. Now just type VB and it runs.
>
> I have 1280x1024 and the GUI looks great! They claim it is all written
> in PERL except for some platform support stuff.
>
> I expected it to work (somewhat) like M$ Visual Basic. Looked everywhere
> for the place to put the code for the events. Well, it was right there
> in the Object Inspector window. There is a button there labeled Events.
> That's it! (I couldn't find the code window because it didn't exist.)
> When you click on Events the displayed Properties go away and all of the
> possible Events for the item selected appear. In the left pane are the
> events and in the right pane the code for the selected event appears.
> Unlike Visual Basic, Every event has visible default code. This is a
> nice touch because you can actually find and inspect all default event
> actions. Like Visual basic, the things that have been changed from the
> default value are in a darker font. What you put in the right window
> pane is actual PERL code. Now I have to learn the PERL jargon that fits
> this application. Should be easy. (RIGHT!)
>
> Hope that will help get you going.
>
> Bob Lindley
>
>
Thanks! I'll have to check this out. Let me know how your project goes...
More information about the Phoenix-pm
mailing list