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

[Rob M. <ro...@th...>]

2009/4/22 Jeremy White <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.

I think I vote for it too, although I suspect that it'll cause some
(minor) layout problems for some people, as I'm not sure that all the
control decorations are the same on styled/non-styled controls.

Last time I had some time to play (sadly I don't get much of that
these days) I was looking at adding a manifest to GUI.dll - it's
possible to add a manifest to a DLL and get the version 6 controls for
any windows created by that DLL, even if the main APP doesn't have a
manifest;  however this depends on some stuff that's in the MS
headers, and doesn't work with the mingw headers (and hence won't work
with cygwin).  I have a patch somewhere (but not with me at the
moment).

There are also some API calls that can be used to turn styling on and
off on a per-app and per-window basis, once you've got the v6 controls
loaded .....  I haven't yet come up with a suitable strategy for
introducing this thought; perhaps adding a v6 manifest to perl.exe
will force me to find time to investigate further?

I hope to find some time to get back to Win32::GUI development over the summer.

Rob.