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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> perl-win32-users
perl-win32-users
Re: Win32-GUI - Manage Window Objects...?
by Johan Lindstrom other posts by this author
Jan 28 2003 4:18PM messages near this date
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At 08:40 2003-01-28 -0700, Mark Sutfin wrote:
> I'm just working thru the *guitutx* tutorials that come with the Win32::GUI
> distribution (0.0.502 on W2K with 5.6.1 633)

That's a way old release of Win32::GUI. The 0.0.558, or 0.0.665 release are 
better.
http://dada.perl.it/#gui

I think it contains a PPM as well, otherwise it's at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/perl-win32-gui

But you need the sample programs and stuff, so download the entire distro 
anyway.


> 1. Are the *top* and *left* options used to determine the location of an
> object (label, button, listbox..) in a Window?

Yep.


> 2. Is there an ?object? manager (something like TK's geometry mgr), or is
> everyone else just able to do the pixel math in their head(s)?

That's not how layout is done using Win32::GUI.

The easiest way to avoid pixel math is The GUI Loft...
http://www.bahnhof.se/~johanl/perl/Loft/


> I find myself adjusting top/left alot to get objects aligned... (buttons and
> labels for example)

...wich has alignment commands in the context menu :)


/J

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