Steve,
I'd be glad to incorporate your routine into my code, which I hope
someday to get on SourceForge. However, I have a question about it
first. I'm not sure i is 100% complete, though... aren't there
Win32::GUI data structures that need to be altered also? I think the
tree of hashes that Win32::GUI creates during window creation includes a
"-parent" field that sounds like it ought to be updated along with the
theory that Windows's idea of the parent gets updated.
Or maybe you've thought this through and have decided that it should be
(for some reason, that maybe should be stated in the documentation for
this function).
Or maybe you've done that in your Perl code that calls this?
Or maybe a lot of things.
In spite of all that, if it seems to function correctly for you, adding
it really wouldn't hurt anyone else even if it isn't 100% complete.
And the other question, is where should it be added? I suppose to the
main Win32::GUI package... Suggest a specific spot, though.
On approximately 11/15/2003 5:14 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Steve Pick:
Hi,
Can anyone currently maintaining or debugging Win32::GUI add this to GUI.xs?
It's a small change that lets you do SetParent() from Perl.
I've written a dockable-windows routine (panes in your main window can be
detached into
windows) that works with my (very cool) packing grid object, which will be
available to download soon. The docking routine needs to be able to change a
window's parent (of course).
This works with 665:
###########################################################################
# (@)METHOD:SetParent(VALUE)
# Sets a windows parent handle
# documentation.
HWND
SetParent(handle,value)
HWND handle
HWND value
CODE:
RETVAL = SetParent(handle, value);
OUTPUT:
RETVAL
While I'm posting I might as well explain what the packing grid object does.
It allows you to pack widgets into a grid. Heard that before? Well this does
it with a difference. Each object you add to the grid can have properties
assigned to it that dictate how it's aligned in the cell (left, center,
right, top, middle, bottom) and whether it's stretched to fill the cell
(vertically, horizontally or both). Each column or row in the grid can have
a fixed width or a variable width. Variable-widthed columns or rows stretch
to accommodate large widgets, and scale when the grid is resized (the entire
grid can be given Width and Height).
Still need more? Columns and rows can be resized. With my DragHandle object
(which is a very simple label that can be dragged around the window using
the mouse, and constrained horizontally and vertically, showing the
appropriate cursors of course) you can implement mouse-dragable column/row
sizes very easilly.
These three modules are all almost complete, so you'll get them soon.
They're all pure perl except for the one mod required for the dockable
windows to work. Soon you'll be able to create slick apps *fast* :)
Any questions, just ask.
Steve
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offering to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It's ridiculous.
-- Bill Gates
And here is why it is ridiculous:
The division that includes Windows posted an operating profit of $2.26
billion on revenue of $2.81 billion.
--from Reuters via
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So that's profit of over 400% of investment... with a bit more
investment in Windows technology, particularly in the area of
reliability, the profit percentage might go down, but so might the bugs
and security problems? Seems like it would be a reasonable tradeoff.
WalMart earnings are 3.4% of investment.
