> Hi, I'm developing a wxperl application packaged with PAR 0.85 (I tried > 0.87 but it caused catastrophic memory leakage in the resulting > executable). I wanted it to get the XP look and feel, which I've > discovered is only possible by embedding the App.exe.manifest with the > -l option, so that it will show up in the same temporary directory as > the app after the archive is decompressed. Trouble is, for some reason, > it doesn't work the first time you run the program. On first invocation, > it has the Windows 98 look. On subsequent invocations, it apparently > reads the manifest because the program gets the XP style from then on. > If I delete the temporary cache, it happens again: 98 style the first > time, then XP for as long as the cache is there. Why does this happen? I > would have thought all items in the cache would be available on the > first invocation, otherwise it wouldn't load the DLLs and would not even > run, right? But apparently not...
You want the XP look and feel, heh? Then put some sleeps( ) in there and slow it down to a snails pace :-) Sorry - I couldn't pass that up. Mike
