wxPerl: Hello, World!

See also [ perl/GUI-Programming/index.html ]

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

# load wxPerl main module
use Wx;

# every application must create an application object
package MyApp;

use base 'Wx::App';

# this method is called automatically when an application object is
# first constructed, all application-level initialization is done here
sub OnInit {

    # create a new frame (a frame is a top level window)
    my $frame = Wx::Frame->new( undef,           # parent window
				-1,              # ID -1 means any
				'wxPerl rules',  # title
				[-1, -1],         # default position
				[250, 150],       # size
			       );

    # show the frame
    $frame->Show( 1 );
}

package main;

# create the application object, this will call OnInit
my $app = MyApp->new;
# process GUI events from the application this function will not
# return until the last frame is closed
$app->MainLoop;