Hello monks.

I'm having an odd problem with Win32::API, but I don't believe it's a bug in the module, but rather something that I've missed.

The problem is that the code below runs fine by itself, but when I put it in a module which I use from my main script I get the following error: 

Win32::API::parse_prototype: WARNING unknown output parameter type 'BO
+OL' at C:/Perl/site/lib/Win32/API.pm line 273.

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It seems to me that the problem might be related to namespacing or perhaps some obscure scoping rule - please enlighten me as to what I've overlooked here. I've tried changing the return type to INT and BYTE with the same result. 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::API;

Win32::API::Struct->typedef(SYSTEM_POWER_STATUS => qw
(
  BYTE ACLineStatus;
  BYTE BatteryFlag;
  BYTE BatteryLifePercent;
  BYTE Reserved1;
  DWORD BatteryLifeTime;
  DWORD BatteryFullLifeTime;
));


my $bar = Win32::API->new('kernel32','BOOL GetSystemPowerStatus(SYSTEM
+_POWER_STATUS status)');
my $foo = Win32::API::Struct->new('SYSTEM_POWER_STATUS');
$bar->Call($foo);

foreach (qw(  ACLineStatus  BatteryFlag  BatteryLifePercent  Reserved1
+  
          BatteryLifeTime  BatteryFullLifeTime))
  {
    print "$_: $foo->{$_}\n";
  }
}

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Updated
I don't blame you for not replying yet - I can't reproduce the error if I write a module with the posted code from scratch, so something else must be going on in my script...

Another update Okay, I found a way to make it work/not work.
It turns out that for the package to work, the datastructure as well as the function (basically all the code I posted) needs to be written inside the function that I call in the package...I'd like to know why this is the case, though :-p

In reply to Win32::API missing types by Nemurenai

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