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i am attempting to set the background color of my window, and it is really turning out to be a project. this is what i have so far...as an example 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

my $main_class = new Win32::GUI::Class(
    -name    => "temp_Class",
        -color  => 5, # i think 5 is the default window color, it seem
+s i can only go on a scale from 1-5
);

my $main = new Win32::GUI::Window(
    -name        => 'Main',
    -title        => 'test',
    -width        => '325',
    -height        => '310',
    -minsize    => ['300', '310'],
    -class        => $main_class,
    -style        => WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,
);

$main->Show();
Win32::GUI::Dialog();

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for the class i have found that i can use a BRUSH object or COLOR value... though i seem to be restricted to 5 colors... (1-5). if you put a 0 in, the background is kinda transparent... and the others are weird shades of blue and red... i really just want to set the background to white, but i cant figure it out...

here is a mail message from the mailing list about RichEdit... not quite sure how to implement it... any help would be great.

thanks monks!
edited by boo_radley -- title change (was :another Win32::GUI question)

In reply to how do I change window background colors in Win32::GUI? by primus

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