Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] XP styles support -- when?

[Jan D. <ja...@ac...>]

Do you guys (users of Win32-GUI) have an opinion of perl.exe always requesting XP style controls?

 

I think perl.exe needs an embedded manifest to properly specify the requested elevation level on Windows Vista and later.  Once that
happens it will no longer be possible to request XP style controls simply by putting a manifest into perl.exe.manifest because the
mebedded manifest will take precedence.

 

So what do you think, should perl.exe in that case request the XP style controls or not?

 

Cheers,

-Jan

 

From: Jeremy White [mailto:jez...@ho...] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:50 AM
To: ily...@so...; per...@li...
Subject: Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] XP styles support -- when?

 

Hi,

 

XP styles (as I understand it) is a separate "thing" from Win32::GUI and is controlled by a manifest file. This manifest file is
included inside the exe by PerlApp. If you have a manifest file for Perl itself you'll get XP styles when you run your app via perl.
Have a search on this list on how to do that (its simple - but I dont have the details to hand).

 

As for the tabstrip, I have seen this in the past and I've never found a solution to it (again, I dont think it's a Win32::GUI
thing). The way I have got around this is to have a grey child window covering the while background, and add the controls to the
child window. Works well...

 

Cheers,

 

Jeremy.

 

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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:28:57 +0400
From: Ily...@so...
To: per...@li...
Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] XP styles support -- when?

Hello to everybody!

 

I'm just interested if dear developers have any plans to introduce XP styles support to Win32::GUI?

Being compiled with ActiveState's PerlApp the application runs with XP styles but tabstrip control drives me crazy because all other
controls being placed on the tabstrip still have gray background while the tabstrip's background is different (white). Are there any
_correct_ way to determine if XP styles are active and draw controls correctly?

 

Thank you in advance!

 

 

Regards, 

Ilya

 

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