Hi,

  I haven't time anymore to work on my Win32::GUI module
(Grid/AxWindows/Scintilla). And, i switch my personal computer to Linux
as main OS :o)

  You can include and maintain those packages in Win32::GUI Main Site. I
have no problem with this.

Cheers,
  Laurent

> 
> The Scintilla control (http://rocherl.club.fr/Win32GUI.html) has a few 
> issues running under 5.8.7 with the latest versions of Win32-GUI. The major 
> problem is that no events are returned.
> 
> I know what the problem is and have a 'hacked' a fix together for personal 
> use, but am posting it here as the issue could effect other modules that use 
> Win32-GUI subclassing at the XS level. Also, as Laurent has been quite of 
> late, I'm wondering if a new version of Scintilla should be built and 
> maintained on the Win32 main site?
> 
> Scintilla defines it's own tagPERLWIN32GUI_USERDATA structure which it uses 
> internally (it uses Win32::GUI::Create to fill this structure). Many moons 
> ago both structures would be the same, but today both structures are 
> slightly different. In the current form this isn't a major problem (it would 
> become one, if NEM was added to Scintilla for example).
> 
> The actual problem is that the Perl context is defined differently 
> (basically, it's not being included in Scintilla, meaning the szWindowName 
> offset is 4 bytes short, meaning the window name is always wrong, meaning no 
> events fired!). The basic fix is to force the inclusion of the context [even 
> just defining an unused long] in Scintilla's version of 
> tagPERLWIN32GUI_USERDATA.
> 
> Clearly, the situation is a little more complicated as Scintilla needs to 
> use the same version of tagPERLWIN32GUI_USERDATA as what is being used in 
> the running version of Win32-GUI...
> 
> Hope this is of use to someone,
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> jez.



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