Returns the absolute (screen) window x coordinate; use this to get the onscreen position of a child window, eg. a button or a label. This method returns -1 on errors.
See also: Left
Applies to: Animation, Button, Checkbox, Class, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Graphic, Groupbox, Header, Label, ListView, Listbox, ProgressBar, RadioButton, Rebar, RichEdit, Slider, Splitter, StatusBar, TabStrip, Textfield, Timer, Toolbar, Tooltip(*), TreeView, UpDown, Window
Returns the absolute (screen) window y coordinate; use this to get the onscreen position of a child window, eg. a button or a label. This method returns -1 on errors.
See also: Top
Applies to: Animation, Button, Checkbox, Class, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Graphic, Groupbox, Header, Label, ListView, Listbox, ProgressBar, RadioButton, Rebar, RichEdit, Slider, Splitter, StatusBar, TabStrip, Textfield, Timer, Toolbar, Tooltip(*), TreeView, UpDown, Window
Sets the background color of the RichEdit control; if no COLOR is specified, the background color is reset to the default system color.
Applies to: RichEdit
Returns the number of bands in the Rebar control.
Applies to: Rebar
Brings the window to the foreground.
Displays the standard ``Browse For Folder'' dialog box. Returns the selected item's name, or undef if no item was selected or an error occurred.
Note that BrowseForFolder must be called as a standalone function, not as a method.
Example:
$folder = Win32::GUI::BrowseForFolder( -root => "C:\\Program Files", -includefiles => 1, );Available options: -computeronly, -domainonly, -driveonly, -editbox, -folderonly, -includefiles, -owner, -printeronly, -root, -title
See Text
Changes the default cursor for a window to CURSOR (a Win32::GUI::Cursor object). Returns the handle of the previous default cursor.
Applies to: Animation, Button, Checkbox, Class, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Graphic, Groupbox, Header, Label, ListView, Listbox, ProgressBar, RadioButton, Rebar, RichEdit, Slider, Splitter, StatusBar, TabStrip, Textfield, Toolbar, TreeView, UpDown, Window
Changes the default icon for a window to ICON (a Win32::GUI::Icon object). Returns the handle of the previous default icon.
Changes the default small icon for a window to ICON (a Win32::GUI::Icon object). Returns the handle of the previous default small icon.
See Reset
Confines the cursor to the specified screen rectangle. Call it without parameters to release the cursor. Returns nonzero on success, zero on failure.
Closes the opened AVI file.
See also: Open()
Applies to: Animation
Minimizes a window.
Returns the last common dialog library error code.
Returns the number of items in the control.
Deletes the zero-based INDEX band from the Rebar.
Applies to: Rebar
Enter the GUI dialog phase: the script halts, the user can interact with the created windows and events subroutines are triggered as necessary; note that this function must be called without ANY parameter or instantiation (eg. don't call it as method of a created object):
Win32::GUI::Dialog(); # correct $Window->Dialog(); # !!!WRONG!!!
Disables a window.
See also: Enable(), IsEnabled()
Applies to: Animation, Button, Checkbox, Class, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Graphic, Groupbox, Header, Label, ListView, Listbox, ProgressBar, RadioButton, Rebar, RichEdit, Slider, Splitter, StatusBar, TabStrip, Textfield, Toolbar, TreeView, UpDown, Window
Just like
Dialog(),but returns when there are no more events to process.
Forces redrawing of the menu bar.
Enables a window (or disables it if FLAG is FALSE).
See also: Disable(), IsEnabled()
Applies to: Animation, Button, Checkbox, Class, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Graphic, Groupbox, Header, Label, ListView, Listbox, ProgressBar, RadioButton, Rebar, RichEdit, Slider, Splitter, StatusBar, TabStrip, Textfield, Toolbar, TreeView, UpDown, Window
Opens a NODE of the TreeView; the optional FLAG parameter can indicate different operations:
1 expand (this is the default) 2 collapse 3 toggle (expand if it was collapsed and collapse if it was expanded)Applies to: TreeView
Returns the handle of the window whose class name and window title match the specified strings; both strings can be empty. Note that the function does not search child windows, only top level windows. If no matching windows is found, the return value is zero.
Returns the handle of the active window.
Returns the classname of the specified window, or undef on errors.
Applies to: Animation, Button, Checkbox, Class, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Graphic, Groupbox, Header, Label, ListView, Listbox, ProgressBar, RadioButton, Rebar, RichEdit, Slider, Splitter, StatusBar, TabStrip, Textfield, Toolbar, TreeView, UpDown, Window
Returns a four elements array defining the windows client area rectangle (left, top, right, bottom) or undef on errors.
Applies to: Animation, Button, Checkbox, Class, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Graphic, Groupbox, Header, Label, ListView, Listbox, ProgressBar, RadioButton, Rebar, RichEdit, Slider, Splitter, StatusBar, TabStrip, Textfield, Toolbar, TreeView, UpDown, Window
Returns the handle of the current cursor.
Returns a two elements array containing the x and y position of the cursor, or undef on errors.
Returns the handle of the window that has the keyboard focus.
Gets the font of the window (returns an handle; use
$Font = $W->GetFont(); %details = Win32::GUI::Font::Info( $Font );to get font details).
Applies to: Animation, Button, Checkbox, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Graphic, Groupbox, Header, Label, ListView, Listbox, ProgressBar, RadioButton, Rebar, RichEdit, Slider, Splitter, StatusBar, TabStrip, Textfield, Toolbar, TreeView, UpDown, Window
Returns the name of the font used in the window.
Applies to: Animation, Button, Checkbox, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Graphic, Groupbox, Header, Label, ListView, Listbox, ProgressBar, RadioButton, Rebar, RichEdit, Slider, Splitter, StatusBar, TabStrip, Textfield, Toolbar, TreeView, UpDown, Window
Returns the handle of the menu associated with the window (note: the handle, not the Win32::GUI::Menu object).
Retrieves a message sent to the window, optionally considering only messages identifiers in the range MIN..MAX; if a message is found, the function returns a 7 elements array containing:
- the result code of the message
- the message identifier
- the wParam argument
- the lParam argument
- the time when message occurred
- the x coordinate at which message occurred
- the y coordinate at which message occurred
If the result code of the message was -1 the function returns undef. Note that this function should not be normally used unless you know very well what you're doing.
Displays the standard 'Open File' dialog box; the return value is the name of the choosen file or undef on errors.
Available options: -directory, -file, -filter, -owner, -title
Returns the handle of the DOS Prompt window your perl script is running in; if called in an array context, returns the handle and the HINSTANCE of your perl process.
Example:
$DosPrompt = Win32::GUI::GetPerlWindow(); Win32::GUI::Hide( $DosPrompt );
# your program goes here...
Win32::GUI::Show( $DosPrompt );
Returns the handle of the specified predefined system object (pen, brush or font). OBJECT can have one of the following values:
0 WHITE_BRUSH 1 GRAY_BRUSH 2 LTGRAY_BRUSH 3 DKGRAY_BRUSH 4 BLACK_BRUSH 5 NULL_BRUSH (also HOLLOW_BRUSH) 6 WHITE_PEN 7 BLACK_PEN 8 NULL_PEN 10 OEM_FIXED_FONT 11 ANSI_FIXED_FONT 12 ANSI_VAR_FONT 13 SYSTEM_FONT 14 DEVICE_DEFAULT_FONT 15 DEFAULT_PALETTE 16 SYSTEM_FIXED_FONT 17 DEFAULT_GUI_FONTThe returned handle can be referenced as if it was a Win32::GUI object of the corresponding type (eg. a Win32::GUI::Brush or Win32::GUI::Font), but note that it is not blessed, so you can't directly invoke methods on it:
$Font = Win32::GUI::GetStockObject(17); # DEFAULT_GUI_FONT print $Font->GetMetrics(); # !!!WRONG!!! print Win32::GUI::Font::GetMetrics($Font); # correct $Window->SetFont($Font); # correct
Checks if the specified point in the control area is occupied by an item; it returns the identifier of the found item or zero if none was found. If called in an array context, it returns an additional value containing more info about the position of the specified point [TBD].
Gets or sets the indentation width, in pixels, between parents and child nodes; if the VALUE is less than the system-defined minimum, it is set to the system-defined minimum.
Applies to: TreeView
Inserts a new band in the Rebar control.
# -index => position or -1 to add it at the end, default -1 # -image => index of an image from the associated ImageList # -bitmap => Win32::GUI::Bitmap object # -child => child control # -foreground => COLOR # -background => COLOR # -width => pixels # -minwidth => pixels # -minheight => pixels # -text => stringApplies to: Rebar
Available options: -index, -image, -bitmap, -child, -foreground, -background, -width, -minwidth, -minheight, -text
Changes the timeout value of the Timer to ELAPSE milliseconds, or returns the current timeout value if no parameter is specified. If ELAPSE is 0, the Timer is disabled; can also be used to resume a Timer after a
Kill().See also: Kill()
Applies to: Timer
Inverts the content of the rectangle from LEFT, TOP to RIGHT, BOTTOM. Returns nonzero if succesful, zero on errors.
Applies to: DC
Returns TRUE if the window is enabled, FALSE otherwise.
Applies to: Animation, Button, Checkbox, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Graphic, Groupbox, Header, Label, ListView, Listbox, ProgressBar, RadioButton, Rebar, RichEdit, Slider, Splitter, StatusBar, TabStrip, Textfield, Toolbar, TreeView, UpDown, Window
Returns TRUE if the window is minimized, FALSE otherwise.
Returns TRUE if the window is visible, FALSE otherwise.
Applies to: Animation, Button, Checkbox, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Graphic, Groupbox, Header, Label, ListView, Listbox, ProgressBar, RadioButton, Rebar, RichEdit, Slider, Splitter, StatusBar, TabStrip, Textfield, Toolbar, TreeView, UpDown, Window
Returns TRUE if the window is a window, FALSE otherwise.
Applies to: Animation, Button, Checkbox, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Graphic, Groupbox, Header, Label, ListView, Listbox, ProgressBar, RadioButton, Rebar, RichEdit, Slider, Splitter, StatusBar, TabStrip, Textfield, Toolbar, TreeView, UpDown, Window
Returns TRUE if the window is maximized, FALSE otherwise.
Disables the Timer.
See also: Interval()
Applies to: Timer
See SelectedItem
Loads a file named FILENAME into the RichEdit control. By default the file is a RTF (Rich Text Format) file; if you want to load a plain text file, you can set FORMAT to 1.
Applies to: RichEdit
Limits the number of characters that the Textfield accept to CHARS, or returns the current limit if no argument is given. To remove the limit (eg. set it to the maximum allowed which is 32k for a single-line Textfield and 64k for a multiline one) set CHARS to 0.
See CloseWindow
Moves the window to the specified position.
Applies to: Animation, Button, Checkbox, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Graphic, Groupbox, Header, Label, ListView, Listbox, ProgressBar, RadioButton, Rebar, RichEdit, Slider, Splitter, StatusBar, TabStrip, Textfield, Toolbar, TreeView, UpDown, Window
Opens the specified AVI file in the Animation control; note that the AVI file must not contain sound data.
See also: Close()
Applies to: Animation
Restores a minimized window.
Plays the animation (eventually from the FROM frame to the TO frame) looping it REPEAT times. Defaults are FROM 0 (the first frame) to -1 (the last frame) and REPEAT -1 (loop forever).
Applies to: Animation
Draws a rectangle from LEFT, TOP to RIGHT, BOTTOM; the rectangle is outlined with the current pen and filled with the current brush. Returns nonzero if succesful, zero on errors.
Applies to: DC
Deletes the content of the control.
See OpenIcon
Returns the number of rows in the Rebar control.
Applies to: Rebar
Saves the content of the RichEdit control in a file named FILENAME. By default the file is a RTF (Rich Text Format) file; if you want to save in a plain text file, you can set FORMAT to 1.
Applies to: RichEdit
Returns the windows client area height.
See also: ScaleWidth()
Applies to: Animation, Button, Checkbox, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Graphic, Groupbox, Header, Label, ListView, Listbox, ProgressBar, RadioButton, Rebar, RichEdit, Slider, Splitter, StatusBar, TabStrip, Textfield, Timer, Toolbar, TreeView, UpDown, Window
Returns the windows client area width.
See also: ScaleHeight()
Applies to: Animation, Button, Checkbox, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Graphic, Groupbox, Header, Label, ListView, Listbox, ProgressBar, RadioButton, Rebar, RichEdit, Slider, Splitter, StatusBar, TabStrip, Textfield, Timer, Toolbar, TreeView, UpDown, Window
Positions the AVI file to the specified FRAME.
Applies to: Animation
Selects all the text.
Returns the zero-based index of the currently selected item, or -1 if no item is selected.
Draws the specified CURSOR (a Win32::GUI::Cursor object). Returns the handle of the previously displayed cursor. Note that the cursor will change back to the default one as soon as the mouse moves or a system command is performed. To change the cursor stablily, use
ChangeCursor()instead.See also: ChangeCursor()
Sets the range of values (from MIN to MAX) for the control; if MIN is not specified, it defaults to 0.
Applies to: ProgressBar
Stops the animation currently playing.
See also: Play()
Applies to: Animation
Gets or sets the text of a window.
Applies to: Button, Checkbox, Combobox, ComboboxEx, DateTime, DialogBox, Groupbox, Header, Label, Listbox, RadioButton, RichEdit, StatusBar, Textfield, Toolbar, UpDown, Window
Draws the specified TEXT string at X, Y, using the currently selected font. Returns nonzero if succesful, zero on errors.
Applies to: DC
Gets or sets the viewing mode of the ListView control; the returned or given MODE can have one of the following values:
0 big icons 1 details 2 small icons 3 listApplies to: ListView