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...




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