Editing Perl and wxWidgets RAD on Windows (section)

== wxGlade: The Important Survivor ==

[https://wxglade.sourceforge.net/ wxGlade] is the strongest surviving Perl-relevant GUI builder in this story. It is a GUI designer written in Python for wxWidgets and wxPython interfaces, and it can generate Perl, Python, C++, Lisp, and XRC.

* [https://wxglade.sourceforge.net/ wxGlade project site]
* [https://github.com/wxGlade/wxGlade wxGlade on GitHub]

That distinction matters. wxGlade is not Lazarus. It does not give Perl a complete IDE. But it gives Perl something extremely valuable: a maintained visual designer that still knows how to output Perl code.

In the Perl Lazarus effort, wxGlade is the practical RAD-ish form designer, not the whole development environment.

Historically, wxGlade also mattered because it gave Perl programmers a relatively direct path:

# Design a frame or dialog.

# Output Perl code.

# Wire up event handlers.

# Run the application with wxPerl.

# Package and distribute the result.

The hard part has been learning how not to clobber custom code when regenerating GUI code, and eventually learning when to move toward XRC for cleaner separation.