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 my attention.
I have had problems installing version 558 of Win32::GUI on my
machine, most notably when I try to compile (with nmake from ms) I get:
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\PERL\BIN \PERL.EXE' : return code
'0xff'
Stop.
and unfortunately, I'm not great with compilation. I may try running the ppm
for 558, but as its listed only for perl 5.6, I fear I might run into
problems. (guess there is nearly no harm in trying).
Thanks again for all your help!
Michael Forhan,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Piske, Harald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 9:25 AM
To: 'perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: 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really outdated.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 causing unexpected side-effects.
Use -addstyle (and it's counterpart -remstyle) instead.
I found
-addstyle => WS_VSCROLL | 2
to make a fully functional, standard ComboBox. Use 3 instead of 2 for
read-only (Dropdown-Listbox). The CBS_ constants are not exported in GUI.pm,
they are
#define CBS_SIMPLE 0x0001L
#define CBS_DROPDOWN 0x0002L
#define CBS_DROPDOWNLIST 0x0003L
There is an issue with getting the contents of the edit field of a ComboBox.
It has been discussed here on the list. Find the trail "Combobox/Textfield",
early April 2001, in the list archive, for the whole story. The solution was
sub Combo_Anonymous
{
$ComboText = $Main->Combo->Text () if $_[0] == 6;
}
Hope that helps.
Have fun,
Harald
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Forhan, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 8:29
| To: 'perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net'
| Subject: [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 would
| like to be able to be more recognizable to a user by building
| a dropdown
| box.
| I've tried adding the -style => 0x[value] for hex
| values from the
| 'visual basic 5.0 programmers guide to the win32 api', but
| have had no luck
| producing the li'l down button that is characteristic of
| dropdowns. The
| combobox is the closest I've come to displaying a list, as it
| shows what is
| available in the list underneath the text field generated by
| the combo box.
|
| Any help that can be offered for this would be greatly
| appreciated.
| I have found a wealth of information about the Win32::GUI
| package from this
| list that would have been much more difficult to find on my own. I am
| currently using Activestate ActivePerl build 522 (version
| 5.005_03) and
| Win32::GUI version 502.
|
| Thank you all,
| Michael Forhan
|
|
|
|
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