Editing Developing and Distributing wxPerl Applications on Windows (section)

== Underdeveloped Sections ==
The following sections are "works in progress," and remain open questions (for this author anyway). Contributions to develop these sections are greatly appreciated, but not expected. Over time I will update these sections as I learn more about using wxGlade and Perl on Windows.

=== Distributing EXEs to other Windows Machines ===
While wxpar does indeed create EXEs that can run on Windows machines that do not otherwise have any required libraries on them, I have found some early problems that are most likely due to lack of experience in this area. An understanding of this area is forthcoming.

=== Maintaining Perl Applications using XRC ===
[https://docs.wxwidgets.org/latest/overview_xrc.html XRC] is a language agnostic and XML based way of describing the GUI layout for wxWidgets. It appears to be the right way to maintain the GUI layout of your production grade program, while maintaining the set of Perl handlers in your own source tree. Think of XRC as the separation of the controller and view in MVC - it to GUI programming what templates are to web application programming. It seems that as one advances his skills in this area, he will want to use XRC. The benefit also of this is that one may be able to create controllers in multiple languages rather than tie the GUI construction in Perl or some other language exclusive - of course, wxGlade can output in different languages, but none is as abstract as XRC.
[[File:Xrc.png|alt=Wx::Demo example of loading an XRC file; wxGlade can output directly to XRC, which can then be read in Perl. This is how.|thumb|Wx::Demo example of loading an XRC file; wxGlade can output directly to XRC, which can then be read in Perl. [https://metacpan.org/release/MDOOTSON/Wx-Demo-0.22/source/lib/Wx/DemoModules/wxXrc.pm This] is how.]]
Wx::Demo has a few [https://metacpan.org/release/MDOOTSON/Wx-Demo-0.22/source/lib/Wx/DemoModules/wxXrc.pm good examples] of running XRX applications; wxGlade can output XRC, but it is not aware of any language bindings or drivers for it.

Experience with managing XRC files may allow us as Perl programmers to use RAD tools and GUI builders that were not intended to support wxPerl, but can output XRC files. [http://www.anthemion.co.uk/dialogblocks/download.htm DialogBlocks] is such a professional and commercial GUI builder for wxWidgets, and it is actively maintained.

=== Frequently Asked Questions ===
Nobody actually asks contacts me to ask these questions, but they seem to be important.

==== Q: Can these wxPerl applications using Strawberry Perl make ''https'' requests? ====
A: Yes! Strawberry Perl comes with HTTP::Tiny (a core Perl module) and Net::SSLeay (used by HTTP::Tiny for https requests).