Puppet::Show is a utility class that is used (and not inherited like the deprecated Puppet::Any) to manage a L<Puppet::Body> class through an optional GUI.

So when you construct a Puppet::Show object, you have all the functionnality of this object without the GUI. Then, when the need arises, you may (or the user class may decide to) open the GUI of Puppet::Show so the user may perform any interactive action.

On the other hand, if the need does not arise, you may instanciate a lot of objects (which uses Puppet::Show) without cluttering your display.

Suggested DSLI entry in the Tk Module list (section Module using Tk):

Puppet::Show adpO Optional Tk Gui for Puppet::Body DDUMONT

The user class may use the Puppet::Show Tk widget (actually a Tk::Multi::Toplevel widget) and add its own widget to customize the GUI to its needs.

This class features :

• A Tk::Multi::Toplevel to show or hide the different display of the Show class (or of the user class)
• A menu bar
• An online help
• An event log display so user object may log their activity
• A Debug log display so user objects may log their "accidental" activities
• An Object Scanner display the attributes of the user object
• A set of functions to manage "has-a" relationship between Puppet objects.The menu bar feature a "content" bar which enabled the user to open the display of all "contained" objects.
• a facility to store data on a database file tied to a hash.

I'd like people who use this module for their application to drop me a short note about what they're using this module for.

See the embedded documentation in the module for more details.

Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Legal mumbo jumbo:

Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Dominique Dumont. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

• Dominique Dumont dominique_dumont@grenoble.hp.com

         gunzip -c <dist_file>.tar.gz | tar xvf -
         cd <dist_directory>
         perl Makefile.PL
         make test          
         make install