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

[Jeremy W. <jez...@ho...>]

I vote for adding the XP style request directly to perl.exe - in almost all cases it's the "correct" thing to do and is easy enough to remove (and indeed from PerlApp) should you need to. It's also backward compatible so it wont harm Win 2000 users etc.
Cheers,
Jeremy.
From: ja...@ac...
To: jez...@ho...; ily...@so...; per...@li...
Subject: RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] XP styles support -- when?
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:16:37 -0700



















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.





 







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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