GTK2 and Perl Manual

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I am learning Perl for the first time, but I am finding it difficult to find some well documented documentation regarding the language with the GTK2 Library. I am fully aware of the Perl Manual, but it doesn't cover anything on GTK2. So, where can I find a well documented Perl with GTK2 Manual? As documented as PHP for example.

Thanks in advanced!

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 04 '12 at 15:31

Have you looked at the Perl GTK2 home? They have some documentation there.

By the way, there's a command called perldoc that will display the built in documentation of any Perl module. It also has the complete documentation for any function, pragmas, etc. For example:

$ perldoc Gtk2          #Help on the Gtk2 module
$ perldoc Data::Dumper  #Help with the Data::Dumper Perl module
$ perldoc -f open       #Help with the built in Perl _open_ command
$ perldoc -q data       #Questions in the FAQ that have the keyword _data_ in them.

Of course, the Perldoc webpage has all of the standard included documentation in it. CPAN modules will display their Perl documentation on the CPAN webpage with that module.

By the way, you know about the cpan command? This is how you download and install a module you find in the CPAN webpage. All this stuff is nice, but there's a lot of assumption that most people know about this stuff. I was a Perl programmer for over a decade before I realized you were suppose to use the cpan command to install Perl modules. I didn't know about the perldoc command until a few years ago although I already knew about POD (plain old documentation) which is Perl's standard way of documentation.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 05 '12 at 05:10

The best documentation I have found is the Gtk2-Perl Study guide by Dirk van der Walt which is linked from here.

http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/

There is a really good example by grant mclean here at http://live.gnome.org/GTK2-Perl/GladeXML/Tutorial

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 04 '12 at 15:00

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Documentation for third party modules is (in theory at least) included with the module itself and is accessible via perldoc Module::Name and various web interfaces to CPAN.

answered Apr 04 '12 at 15:00

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 05 '12 at 19:30

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The GladeXML tutorial on GNOME Live may be useful, it uses Glade but is a good start for Gtk2+Perl.

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answered Apr 04 '12 at 16:09

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GTK2 and Perl Manual

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