Thanks, that works beautifully. Oddly enough, though, while the Return wasn't being entered as a \r\n in my textfield, it wasn't being passed on to the button that has -ok => 1 set either, and the textfield was accepting the tab key to insert a tab (until I found another workaround to let me tab out of a multiline textfield).
I'd have to say that the behavior under Win2K and XP are *both* incorrect. I'm not sure if this is an inconsistently-implemented "feature" of Windows or a bug in Win32::GUI. On 6/29/06, Robert May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Geoffrey Spear wrote: > Hi. > > I've got a window with -dialogui => 1 set, containing a textfield with > -multiline => 1 set. > > Under Windows 2000, which I was using until last week, it worked fine; > hitting Enter in the textfield moved to the next line. > > This week, the machines in my office got upgraded to XP, and now > hitting Enter in the textfield does absolutely nothing. Is that the only change that was made. I would be surprised if that was what caused your problem. (but I am regularly surprised) > I can get to > a new line by hitting CTRL-Enter That's the design when -dialogui is used for a multi-line textfield (or RichEdit) control under windows. When this is the case Windows 'steals' <ENTER> to activate the default button on the dialog, and to get an '\r\n' sequence in the textfield you must <CTRL-ENTER>. > Is there any way to get a fully-functional multiline textfield without > having to give up the benefits of a dialogui? There is a was to change this behaviour: add -addstyle => ES_WANTRETURN, to your Textfield constructor (ES_WANTRETURN takes the value 4096). This allows the Textfield to 'steal' the <ENTER> back, but <ENTER> will no longer activate the default button while the textfield has focus. [In the next version of Win32::GUI there will be a '-wantreturn' option for Textfields/RichEdit controls, as I've lost track of the number of times I've seen this question on this list - I guess I should also make it a FAQ] Regards, Rob. -- Robert May Win32::GUI, a perl extension for native Win32 applications http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/
-- Geoffrey Spear http://www.geoffreyspear.com/
