I am automating an external program with the modules mentioned in the title of this query. I am using Win32::GUI in a non-owned windows format.

Everything is fine until I get to a point where I need to read some information from the other app's listview control. When I attempt to retrieve an item from the listview the source app crashes. A dialog comes up and proclaims that an error has occurred and that a log will be written. The alleged log is, however, an empty text file.

The offending code is : <more> 

sub Select_Tapes ($@) {
    my $wh_DataCopier = shift;
    
    Win32::Sleep(700);
    
    my @handles = FindWindowLike ( $wh_DataCopier,"List1", undef ,unde
+f);
    my $listview = $handles[0];
    print "List view is at  $listview \n";
    print "There are :". Win32::GUI::ListView::Count($listview)."Tapes
+ listed in the Listview\n";

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my %tape = Win32::GUI::ListView::GetItem($listview,0); # This line causes the program at handle #$wh_DataCopier to crash the perl script runs along just fine until it realizes there isn't a program to talk to anymore.
  
   print "The First Item is $tape{'-text'}\n";
    
   my @tapes = qw( 000001 000002 000003 000004 );
    
    foreach $tape (@tapes) {
        my $tapeid=Win32::GUI::Combobox::FindString($listview,$tape);
         ($tapeid>0) ? print "Found a Tape $tape is index $tapeid\n": 
+print "Did not find tape $tape\n";
        Win32::GUI::Combobox::Select($listview,$tapeid);
    
    }

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UPDATE Win32::GUI ver .670 for perl 5.6

In reply to Automation Problem with Win32::GUI and Win32::GUITest by talwyn

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