[perl-win32-gui-users] Transparent Labels -please help

Hi All Thank you for your knowledge and help so far. Has anyone successfully applied skins. I am wanting to skin my rather plain windows and dialogue boxes. The trouble is that I cannot make my text labels transparant. I want my label backgrounds to be transparant against the bitmap background.

RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Transparent Labels for skins -please help

Hi All Thank you for your knowledge and help so far. Has anyone successfully applied skins. I am wanting to skin my rather plain windows and dialogue boxes. The trouble is that I cannot make my text labels transparant. I want my label backgrounds to be transparant against the bitmap background.

RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Dropdown Boxes

Thanks, that worked great! I wasn't aware of the -addstyle and -remstyle options, and part of that may be the documentation that I've found so far regarding Win32::GUI ( http://velocity.activestate.com/code/cpan/w/wi/Win32-GUI.html/docs/new.html ), I thank you for bringing that to

RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Dropdown Boxes

Hi Michael First off, you might want to upgrade to Win32::GUI 0.0.558. The 502 is really outdated. In short, Aldo has cautioned (on this list) a few times to beware of the -style option because its use makes you prone to omitting standard flags for the particular control, thus inadvertently causi

[perl-win32-gui-users] Dropdown Boxes

Hello, I am currently working on a windows input program for an ODBC information prompt, and am having difficulties building a proper 'dropdown' for listing possible DSNs. I have tried using both combo boxes and list boxes, and I am able to scroll through those using the keyboard, but I wou