On approximately 4/21/2009 3:16 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Jan Dubois: > Do you guys (users of Win32-GUI) have an opinion of perl.exe always > requesting XP style controls? > > > > I think perl.exe needs an embedded manifest to properly specify the > requested elevation level on Windows Vista and later. Once that happens > it will no longer be possible to request XP style controls simply by > putting a manifest into perl.exe.manifest because the mebedded manifest > will take precedence. > > > > So what do you think, should perl.exe in that case request the XP style > controls or not?
Well, what happens on WinNt sp4 or Win2k? If they totally ignore the manifest, and things still work, then I have no problem with programs on XP looking different... But my understanding is that some of the controls work different, and so things might not work? (I know there are several Open dialogs that have different parameters and results, for example.) If that is the case, then it would seem that requesting XP style controls should only be done when the programmer says that is a good idea, and can handle both cases. As far as Vista is concerned, if it needs separate malarky to operate, then there ought to be a way to obtain that malarky separately, even if it means a separate version of Perl to access the Vista-specific features. Everything I've read about this "assembly" stuff sounds like sophisticated nonsense to me, and has given me more desire to keep running XP, and keep recommending XP to my clients. When the day comes that XP-developed programs won't work in Windows-Assimilation version, I'll start recommending Linux. -- Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/ =========================== A protocol is complete when there is nothing left to remove. -- Stuart Cheshire, Apple Computer, regarding Zero Configuration Networking ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-GUI-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-GUI-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-users http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/
