Jeremy White wrote:
I'll do some fiddling with the API call although I admit I'm not the
most comfortable with making the directed calls to the API, but if it
works, it will be nice :)
While I have your ear regarding fancy features... Do you know of the
method to display those little Tooltip messages that windows uses?
Yeah, if you add -tip when you create the control, the tip will
display automatically:
$newwindow->AddButton (
-name => 'Name',
-pos => [333, 1],
-size => [20, 20],
-tip => 'This button.....',
);
This program isn't designed to emulate them so much as the
MSN/Aim/Etc notification popups (once I have it working properly I'll
even modularize them like I have done for identical (e.g. property
windows))
I had a play with AnimateWindow earlier and this is definitely what
you want (I played with it in XS, not via the API - but the API way
should have no problems). I think this is what MSN/yahoo/Skype use to
get the notifications showing on the desktop. I did notice issues with
using a richtext control in the window that rolls up and down, but you
should be able to use a combination of other controls to achieve the
same effect. Using AnimateWindow doesn't give the window focus either:)
I know the this one is a stretch, and I suppose I could do the
research myself if I had spare time recently, but what
property/style/method is needed for me to graphics laden my program
to the likes of Trillian/AdAware/etc?
From a quick look of Trillian it looks like it is using a generic 3rd
party widget control set. Some of these control sets are open source
and simply need to be 'called'. A lot of the are ActiveX based, so
quite a bit of glue would be needed.
If you are happy with XP-styles, then that is easy enough to do -
simply save the manifest file below in your Perl bin folder (for me
it's C:\Perl\bin) - the file must be called "perl.exe.manifest" (or
wperl.exe.manifest if you are using the consoleless version of perl).
Every time you run perl, all your controls will now be using XP styles.
Cheers,
jez.
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By the tooltips I meant the taskbar leaden ones taht perlTray uses, and
the ones you always get when your AV hasn't updated in the "proper" time.
Thanks for the tip on the XP styles, I will try that for sure. I know
some of my users can't understand why it's not "pretty". I was really
after the frist part of the answer though, which will obviously be a
fair amount of research.
Jason
