Ron: I think that's a good approach.
Will comment as the odd idea creeps into my brain. James On Jan 17, 2016 7:53 AM, "Ron Grunwald" <ron...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Hi James and Steve, > > I fully understand that you may not have a feel for the book right now. > The design document is still very incomplete at this early stage. > > I’m using a top-down design approach for the book, which means I’m > focussing on the chapters rather than the chapter contents. At least that’s > my plan for now. Adopting a common style to describe each widget is > definitely the intention. > > Once we have the complete list of chapters put together, then I think > would be a good idea to ask people, who are willing to participate, to > choose one or more chapters to work on. > > At the moment I envisage that the book will be grouped into 5 parts. > > 1. Introduction to GUI programming and wxPerl > 2. The wxPerl widgets (currently worked on in the design doc.) > 3. Geometry management in wxPerl (to be worked on next in the design > doc.) > 4. Event handling in wxPerl > 5. Advanced Topics > > > Hopefully as I’m adding to the design document, the full picture for the > book will begin to emerge. > > Best Regards, > > Ron. > > > On 17/01/16 8:15 AM, "James Lynes" <jmlyne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ron: > > Nice work. > > I agree with Steve. I'd like to see a "standard" format used to describe > each widget. I'm not sure what that looks like at the moment. > > James > > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Steve Cookson - gmail < > steveco.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Ron, > > This is very good. But I don't yet have a feel for what the book will > look like. > > Is there any chance we could draft a few chapters? > > Why don't you ask the responders in this thread if they would like to > draft something each. > > And I would like to, please give me a chapter draft. > > Maybe we can develop some style guidelines as we go. > > Thanks very much. > > Regards > > Steve > > > On 16/01/16 14:28, Ron Grunwald wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > I’ve attached the updated versions of the book design documents for this > week. Notably, I’ve added a third source column to reference material from > Herbert Breunung’s wxPerl Tutorial series which was published in the german > Perl magazine “$foo”. > > For next week I hope to have all the widgets covered that I intend to > include in the book. My next step then is working out the details for > geometry management. > > Cheers, > Ron. > > > On 12/01/16 10:33 PM, "Ron Grunwald" <ron...@yahoo.com.au < > http://ron...@yahoo.com.au> > wrote: > > > > Good evening all, > > I’ve started to write a design document that I’m hoping will lead me to a > detailed and complete list of chapters that will be covered in the wxPerl > book. I’ve decided to focus on the widgets for now since they will > constitute the majority of the book. > > The initial design document, in RTF format, and the exported HTML file > are attached to give you insight into how I’m approaching this. As this is > a working document, I intend to send updated versions by the end of each > week. Comments and/or suggestions are always most welcome. > > Kind Regards, > ________________________________________ > Ron Grunwald > ron...@yahoo.com.au <http://ron...@yahoo.com.au> > http://www.dvlcorner.org > > > > > > > > > > >
