All, Back in May there was a discussion on this list about Visual Styles (aka XP Styles). Up to now we have been coping with applying style by copying a manifest file into the perl bin directory. This is unsatisfactory for a number of reasons.
(1) It is difficult to make this work when packing executables (usinfg PAR for example) (2) It is difficult to test both with and without visual styles - especially now that Vista may cache the manifest (3) It is a continual problem with keeping newcomers informed with how to do this. I have created a module, Win32::VisualStyles, that allows you do apply a "V6 Common Control Activation Context" (to use some of the buzz words) at run-time. In particular this means that it is easy to pack an executable - it's just another dependency - and it's easy to test with and without visual styles simply by adding "-MWin32::VisualStyles" to the commandline. V0.02 is currently propagating to CPAN. The only differences from V0.01 are to cope better with the build process - there is no internal difference to the code that runs. You can download the source from CPAN and build it: http://search.cpan.org/~robertmay/Win32-VisualStyles-0.01/ or it should be available for 5.8 and 5.10 from ActiveState's new PPM repository. Full documentation included with the module, but let me know if you need any further help. Regards, Rob. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
