[perl-win32-gui-users] no taskbar entry for a Win32::GUI program

From time to time the question has been asked on this list about how to have a Win32::GUI program running, but have no entry in the taskbar. When hidden and disabled, no entry will appear, but when shown or enabled, it will come back. Unless, when you create the window, you use: -toolwindo

[perl-win32-gui-users] Win32::GUI bug fix, info, etc.

Hi Aldo, Four topics: 1) Patch for some "uninitialized" warnings produced by Win32::GUI for one of my GUI programs 2) Accelerator keys 3) Stuttering typing during repeated calls to DoEvents 4) resize cursor Topic 1 Here is the fix (suggested by Jan Dubois, after I pinpointed where t

[perl-win32-gui-users] dynamic changing color of item text in a list box?

Is it possible to change the text color of the item in the list box after it has been created? I have tried $ListBox->TextColor(0xff) as a test to no avail. It says this function doesn't exist. Seems weird to me as this sure is a useful function.

[perl-win32-gui-users] $ListBox->Select(0); ... $ListBox->Select(5);

I have created a Listbox with -multisel => 1 Afterwards the listbox is created, I offer the user a checkbox to allow him to select everything in the list box. So suppose the user click on the checkbox, I would to be able to get the listbox to highlight all the items in it. I have tried using $Li

[perl-win32-gui-users] The Win32::GUI Documentation Project

The Win32::GUI Documentation Project has begun! http://jeb.ca/perl/win32-gui-docs/ I created editable documentation for Aldo's Win32::GUI Perl module. This project is (obviously) in its infancy stage, but has great potential to become very big. It was a good idea, in my opinion, to have one cent

[perl-win32-gui-users] newbie question: Persistent hourglass cursor upon startup

When my Win32::GUI program starts up it has the hourglass cursor, and that cursor won't go away until I hover the cursor over a TabStrip or over the StatusBar (which my apps currently have). Only by hovering over these magical properties will my cursor change to the arrow. I think this is a very