> Tonight I really started to build a serious heavy-duty Win32::GUI > application, and I immediately hit a wall:
I had no problems with "use strict" (you can have a look at my source code http://sourceforge.net/projects/auctioneer/) But I hit a wall with Win32::GUI in connection with Win32::OLE! When using Win32::OLE and a Win32::GUI, you will get an "Can't locate auto/....al" error. Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Mark Wilkinson > Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 1:31 AM > Cc: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] ACK!! Sputter Cough... say it isn't so! > > > Someone please... save me before I choke! Please say it isn't so!! > Tonight I really started to build a serious heavy-duty Win32::GUI > application, and I immediately hit a wall: > > Is it really not possible to (usefully) program in Win32::GUI while under > "use strict"?!? I say this because there appears to be **nothing** passed > to the event-handling subroutines - not even a reference to the widget > itself! This, IMHO, is absolutely insane! That means that all of my > widget refs, and every variable that is required in the event-handling > subroutines, have to be global variables... which would make comp-sci > professors roll over in their future graves... a "good" program should > never need to have a *single* global variable, let alone *every* variable > being global. If even the widget ref was sent to the > event-handler I could > attach the subroutine's required variables to its hash, but as things are > it seems to break every rule I know about "good" programming style. > > I must be missing something... Please, someone, tell me that it doesn't > really work this way... > > Mark > > > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-GUI-Users mailing list > Perl-Win32-GUI-Users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-users >