Dynamically creating gui objects on demand in Perl

[ Thanks to j00p34 for this link. ]

"Dynamic checkbox creation

"I also created a box which contained checkboxes for a few of the options of the ls command. As I want to add more commands to the tool it would take me a lot of time to create all the checkboxes and a lot of copy pasting code. I don't think that's a good idea, so I've been thinking of some way of dynamically creating vertical boxes containing the checkboxes for all options per command. That way I can just create a VBOX by passing a command and it's options to a subroutine.

"Object orientation

"This is possible because the Gtk library is object oriented, so I can create objects in my subroutine and pass them back. I think I'm going to do something like subclassing the Vbox class in the future, at this moment I don't have a clue how to accomplish such a thing. For now I'll just start with some kind of proof of concept code. In my previous article I got to version 7 of the program so here I'll start with version 8."

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