Re: SOLVED!! Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] This code runs onW2000, but not W98...???

[Mark W. <ma...@il...>]

Is this considered...ummm... "normal" behavior??

What is it about the architecture of the Win32GUI modules that makes it work
this way?  It is really the most peculiar thing I have ever seen, and breaks
every model for OO programming that I know of... (i.e. that the contents of an
object must be maintained as references outside of the object for them to remain
in scope)

M


Johan Lindstrom wrote:

> At 09:48 2001-12-22 -0600, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> >The solution, apparently, is that the reference to the Menu object must be
> >passed back to the main script; apparently the menu-ref is NOT encapsulated
> >inside of the Window object that contains it... which is
> >counter-intuitive, and
> >unlike any other perl module I have ever seen...
>
> The same goes with Bitmap objects you create, they have to stay in scope
> while the bitmap is in use by e.g. a Label control.
>
> /J
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