Win32::GUI and Perl 5.8

Foggy Bottoms has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear monks,

For the sole purpose of testing some of the code I'm writing, I wrote a simple GUI interface using the Win32::GUI package (v. 0.0.558). It worked beautifully with Perl 5.6 but ever since I migrated to Perl 5.8, I ran into several problems :

To start with, it seems as if Win32::GUI didn't support long widget names.
Secondly, it seems as if the Rich Edit component and the timer component were not implemented - which would account for the fact that I can create a button widget but not a rich edit...

Has anyone had similar problems before ? Is there something I should be aware of in Perl 5.8 that I would've shamelessly overlooked ?

Comments welcome, thanks for helping me out !

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Re: Win32::GUI and Perl 5.8 by Foggy Bottoms (Monk) on Aug 21, 2003 at 18:23 UTC
Comment on the problem When I run the following code : `my $re = new Win32::GUI::RichEdit($window, -name => "RE_contentList +"); print "rich edit : $re";` [download] all I get is `rich edit :`... So it does seems as if Rich_Edit didn't exist...	[reply] [d/l] [select]