Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] How do I know what options are available for a control?

[Johan L. <jo...@ba...>]

Stephan wrote:
>As the header says, how do I know what's available?  For example, the 
>ListView control has "singlesel", "hottrack", etc.  Where are these documented?

There are a few ways to answer this, none of them really good.

a) In the docs. There are number of pod/html files included in the source 
distribution at SouceForge[1]. I don't know if they are included in the PPM 
module yet. The documentation is however incomplete.

<plug>
I have also included (and I hope that's ok, but it guess it is) the docs in 
The GUI Loft[2] for easy reference from within the program (with control 
sensitive help as well).
</plug>


b) In the sample apps included in the source distro. Few things beat 
learning by example. The examples are however incomplete. The upside: this 
is working code (mostly).


c) In the GUI.xs file from the source distro. Search for an "-optionname" 
you already know and do some code walking. You'll figure it out. This is 
the source. It is complete :)


d) The Win32 API docs[3]. When you find a [TBD] in the Win32::GUI docs, 
it's often possible to find stuff here which will help you along. It also 
contains basic information about a lot of Win32 stuff that is useful to 
know when you write Windows programs. Don't assume that you _don't_ need to 
know this.


e) The GUI Loft[2] is pretty much feature complete when it comes to 
supported options. Check the Properties window for a selected control, but 
keep in mind that The GUI Loft controls sometimes support more properties 
than what's available as -options in Win32::GUI.


/J

[1] <http://sourceforge.net/projects/perl-win32-gui>

[2] <http://www.bahnhof.se/~johanl/perl/Loft/>

[3] 
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/psdk/psdkref/catfunc_26m1.htm>

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