Name Tie::Wx::Widget - get&set main value of a Wx widget with less syntax and more magic USAGE use Tie::Wx::Widget; tie $tiedwidget, Tie::Wx::Widget, $widget; $tiedwidget = 7; # instead of $widgetref->SetValue(7); say $tiedwidget; # instead of say $widgetref->GetValue; untie $tiedwidget; # now $tiedwidget is a normal scalar again (not required) CALLBACKS Often are the widget values couples with each other. For instance in App::Spirograph is a slider which max value is dependent on the value of another slider. Once you know this, why keep track of it and change the range of the second slider by hand any given time? tie $tslider, Tie::Wx::Widget, $slider, sub { $subslider->SetRange(1, $_) }; $_ holds the assigned value. The complete parameter list is is: tie $tw, Tie::Wx::Widget, $widget, [&$do_when_assign, &$do_when_retrieve]; WARNINGS Your program will C, if you don't provide a proper Wx widget, that has a GetValue and SetValue method, or the callbacks are no coderef. Unless you init with: use Tie::Wx::Widget 'warn_mode'; or do later: Tie::Wx::Widget::warn_mode(); Then will be called C instead of C. But you can switch anytime back with: Tie::Wx::Widget::die_mode(); Wich has only effect for all variables tied afterwards. Because if the Wx ref is not good, there will be no tying anyway. INTERNALS # how to get a reference to the Tie::Wx::Widget object ? $tieobject = tie $tiedwidget, Tie::Wx::Widget, $widget; $tieobject = tied $tiedwidget; # now you even can: $tieobject->FETCH() # aka: $tieobject->{'widget'}->GetValue; # or do any other method on the wx object $tieobject->{'w'}->Show(0); # works too (hides the widget) $tieobject->STORE(7); # doesn't do anything $tieobject->DESTROY() INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Tie::Wx::Widget You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here) http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Tie-Wx-Widget AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/Tie-Wx-Widget CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Tie-Wx-Widget Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tie-Wx-Widget/ Source Repository: http://bitbucket.org/lichtkind/tie-wx-widget LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2011 Herbert Breunung This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.