Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Usable screen coordinates

2008-07-18 Thread Sean Healy
> For some reason, I could not load SPI_GETWORKAREA via > Win32::GUI::Constants. > I don't know why. The numeric value of SPI_GETWORKAREA is 48. So My guess is that it's simply not one of the constants included because the function it's intended for is not yet ported to Win32::GUI. > Thanks for

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Usable screen coordinates

2008-07-18 Thread Roode, Eric
> On 17 July 2008, Sean Healy wrote: > [Eric Roode wrote:] > > > > How can I start my programs at the leftmost part of the usable desktop? > > How can I ensure that my programs behave sanely with respect to users' > > taskbar configuration? > > MSDN lists a function called SystemParametersInfo()

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Text size

2008-07-18 Thread Roode, Eric
On 18 July 2008, Robert May wrote: > >2008/7/18 Roode, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 17 July 2008, Sean Healy wrote: >>> ($x, $y) = $Label->GetTextExtentPoint32($string); >> >> Upon further experimentation, there is something not quite right with >> that. The width it returns is too wide. Ther

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Text size

2008-07-18 Thread Robert May
2008/7/18 Roode, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 17 July 2008, Sean Healy wrote: >> >> ($x, $y) = $Label->GetTextExtentPoint32($string); > > Upon further experimentation, there is something not quite right with > that. The width it returns is too wide. There seems to be some sort > of per-charac

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Text size

2008-07-18 Thread Sean Healy
>> ($x, $y) = $Label->GetTextExtentPoint32($string); > > Upon further experimentation, there is something not quite right with > that. The width it returns is too wide. There seems to be some sort > of per-character skew -- short strings are very accurate; longer > strings get progressively wors

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Text size

2008-07-18 Thread Roode, Eric
On 17 July 2008, Sean Healy wrote: > > ($x, $y) = $Label->GetTextExtentPoint32($string); Upon further experimentation, there is something not quite right with that. The width it returns is too wide. There seems to be some sort of per-character skew -- short strings are very accurate; longer str

[perl-win32-gui-users] tabstrip has white background color after compiling with PerlApp under Windows XP

2008-07-18 Thread Ilya BANDORIN
Hello! As I see in archives, this problem was raised some time ago but with no any solution. Does somebody found the way how to deal with "tabstrip" controls under Windows XP when it has XP style turned on? The problem is when I compile my app with PerlApp it obeys Windows XP styles and show