[perl-win32-gui-hackers] Distributing manifests [Was: Application that in installed in perl bin directory to start up samples]

[Robert M. <rm...@po...>]

Jeremy White wrote:
> One thing I did notice - and this is a minor issue and not really 
> related to your script - is how XP styles are handled. To get XP styles 
> turned on by default, a manifest file has to be in the same directory as 
> the running exe (i.e., perl or wperl) - if the manifest is missing, then 
> you get the "old" window look - as I had the manifest for perl, but not 
> for wperl I was getting an inconsistent look when toggling the console 
> window option. I'm wondering if these manifest files should be installed 
> automatically as part of the installation process?

I don't have access to XP, so have not looked into manifests.  I can see 
that distributing them (or otherwise making them available) would be a 
good thing, but I'm not so sure about installing them in the perl bin 
directory - is there any down side to doing that?

How about a Wiki page explaining what is needed as a starting point?

Regards,
Rob.
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Robert May
Win32::GUI, a perl extension for native Win32 applications
http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/