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[mark montemuro]

From a Perl script,I'm trying to use GUI or GuiTest to bring a minimized window to the foreground. Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong. I'm running on XP.

When running this program below, I do have paint up, but minimized.

C:\Perl\Win32-GuiTest-1.54\eg>active.pl
Windows:1843712:
* Could not set the window id: 1843712 a
* Window id: 1843712 brought to foregrou
1843712>        'untitled - Paint'

use Win32::GuiTest qw(:ALL);
use Win32::GUI;

  $Win32::GuiTest::debug = 0; # Set to "1" to enable verbose mode

  my @windows = FindWindowLike(0, "Paint", "");
  print "Windows:@windows:\n";
  for (@windows) {
     $window=$_;
     Win32::GUI::BringWindowToTop($window);
     my $success = 1;

     if ( SetActiveWindow($window) ) {
         print "* Successfully set the window id: $window active\n";
     }
     else {
         print "* Could not set the window id: $window active\n";
         $success = 0;
     }
     if (SetForegroundWindow($window) ) {
         print "* Window id: $window brought to foreground\n";
     }
     else {
         print "* Window id: $window could not be brought to foreground\n";
         $success = 0;
     }

      print "$_>\t'", GetWindowText($_), "'\n";
     
      SendKeys("%f");
  }

[eundv]

I am very keen to use win32-guitest.  However, having difficulty getting started:

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C:\Temp>dir win*
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 544E-949A

Directory of C:\Temp

12/15/2007  05:01 PM               430 Win32-GuiTest.ppd
12/15/2007  04:59 PM           177,055 Win32-GuiTest.tar.gz
               2 File(s)        177,485 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  47,754,022,912 bytes free

C:\Temp>ppm install c:\temp\win32-guitest.ppd
ppm install failed: The PPD does not provide code to install for this platform

C:\Temp>more win32-guitest.ppd
<SOFTPKG NAME="Win32-GuiTest" VERSION="1,55,0,0">
    <TITLE>Win32-GuiTest</TITLE>
    <ABSTRACT>Perl GUI Test Utilities.</ABSTRACT>
    <AUTHOR>Dennis K. Paulsen (ctrondlp@cpan.org), Ernesto Guisado (erngui@acm.org)</AUTHOR>
    <IMPLEMENTATION>
        <OS NAME="MSWin32" />
        <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" />
        <CODEBASE HREF="Win32-GuiTest.tar.gz" />
    </IMPLEMENTATION>
</SOFTPKG>

C:\Temp>

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I am willing to provide any description of my platform requested.
I am willing to try any fix/workaround suggested.

Thank you in advance for your aide.

eundv