Greetings, Perl Monks :)

I'm learning to add GUI to my Perl application using Win32::GUI. Now I can make the whole title bar disappear by setting the object style to 0x80000000 or change the icon of a Win32 title bar using something like: 

$myicon = new Win32::GUI::Icon('myicon.ico');
$myclass=new Win32::GUI::Class(
-name=>'myclass',                     
-icon=>$myicon,  
    );  
$mydialogbox = new Win32::GUI::DialogBox(
  -name         => 'mydialogbox',
  -class        => $myclass,
  );

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But what about the other stuff, say, the background color, the look and feel of the minimize button?

I googled the subject and found several relevant articles. They talk about stuff like non client area paiting but the code snippets seem to be all written in C or C#, with which I don't have a good familiarity. Actually I'm learning Perl as my first programming language.

How do I customize the win32 title bar or create my own? I was wondering if someone here could kindly share some code snippets written in Perl that deals with the similar situation? Or, is there, hopefully, a Perl module that can facilitate the task? Thanks for any guidance

UPDATE

Can I first make the title bar disappear and then add a label where the original title bar was and then add some other labels as the minimize button and close button? But how can I move the Window object when my mouse is on the label?

In reply to How do I customize the win32 title bar or create my own in Perl way? by ZJ.Mike.2009

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