Thanks Jeremy. I will wait for the next release. Right now I will use a
global.
Emmanuel
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: "Jeremy White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Kopie: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Betreff: Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Using Win32::GUI events within a class
> or a package?
> Datum: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:14:17 +0000
>
>
> >oh no! what i meant was something like this:
> >
> >sub StartClick
> >{
> > my $self = shift;
> > #Here $self is the button that was clicked.
> > #How do I access the window that this button is part of?
> > #I want to change certain parts of the window when the
> > #button Start is clicked.
> >}
> >
> >One way I figured out was declaring $window as a global variable. Then
> all
> >subroutines have access to it.
> >
> >Is there any other way? If the sub StartClick does not have access to the
> >$window variable, is it possible to work back upwards from the button
> $self
> >and retrieve the window? And then modify parts of the window?
>
> Yes, there is another way, but...
>
> You'll either have to wait for the next version of win32-gui (which should
> be soon), or build your own from CVS. There is a new method which can be
> called on controls to return the parent window: GetParent, and a useful
> associated method: UserData. So:
>
> sub StartClick
> {
> my $self = shift;
> my $win = $self->GetParent; #returns a win32::gui window
> $win->somecontrol->Text("Some string");
> }
>
> The UserData method is really useful as it allows you to assocate data to
> a
> window of control, allowing you to create an object from the window, with
> instance data stored within the window.
>
> Cheers,
>
> jez.
>
>
--
5 GB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS http://www.gmx.net/de/go/promail
+++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++
