=pod This software is no longer supported on Windows. Use the Win32:: modules or write your own XS code instead. If you would like to maintain this module, email the author. This file is a Perl program that tests the C::DynaLib package on Windows 95. It might work on iX86 NT, but I wouldn't place bets beyond that. To run it after installation, type `perl '. If you want to run it before installing the module, your best bet is to rename test.pl to something like test.bak.pl, rename this file test.pl, and do `make test' (or nmake, or dmake, whatever make you use). If successful, it will create a window with a message in the center. The program is modeled after the kind of "hello world" examples found in introductory books on Windows programming in C. However, Perl lacks an important feature of C, namely the preprocessor (unless someone has written a Cpp module that I don't know about?) Therefore, all function declarations and constants from are hard-coded. Another difficulty is the use of resources. Windows resources are binary data associated with an application; for example, menus, bitmaps, and dialog box templates. Typically, resources are linked into the program's .exe file. Of course, Perl programs are text and don't use the binary format which can contain resources. Although it is possible to construct at run time the objects which would otherwise be stored as resources, this is rather wasteful and complicated. One alternative is to put the resources in a DLL or EXE which the Perl program would then load via LoadLibrary(). A more radical solution would be to generate a cross-breed file which has the EXE format and is at the same time parsable by perl. A similar principle is used by the pl2bat utility in the Win32 Perl distribution. However, the "Portable Executable" format used by Win32 is quite a bit nastier on text editors than are .bat files. Wordpad, for instance, won't open them at all, and Notepad leaves them hopelessly corrupt when you save. Be that as it may, I have developed a pl2exe program that does what its name suggests. It takes a perl script and adds some stuff at the beginning to make it have the PE format (well, close enough to fool Windows). When executed, the program invokes perl on itself the way a pl2bat script does (and avoids the 9-argument limit on Windows 95, btw). The thing lacking in pl2exe that would make it really useful is a way to link in resources without disrupting the delicate PE/script balance. Maybe someday. One final note about this file. This is a demo/test program. It is not necessarily good coding style. =cut use 5.00402; use C::DynaLib; use C::DynaLib::Struct; use strict; my $user32 = new C::DynaLib("USER32"); my $gdi32 = new C::DynaLib("GDI32"); #typedef struct _WNDCLASS { // wc # # UINT style; # WNDPROC lpfnWndProc; # int cbClsExtra; # int cbWndExtra; # HANDLE hInstance; # HICON hIcon; # HCURSOR hCursor; # HBRUSH hbrBackground; # LPCTSTR lpszMenuName; # LPCTSTR lpszClassName; #} WNDCLASS; Define C::DynaLib::Struct('WNDCLASS', I => ['style'], I => ['lpfnWndProc'], i => ['cbClsExtra'], i => ['cbWndExtra'], I => ['hInstance'], I => ['hIcon'], I => ['hCursor'], I => ['hbrBackground'], p => ['lpszMenuName'], p => ['lpszClassName'], ); # The results of much sifting through C header files: my $PostQuitMessage = $user32->DeclareSub("PostQuitMessage", "i", # return type "i"); # argument type(s) my $GetClientRect = $user32->DeclareSub("GetClientRect", "i", "i", "P"); my $BeginPaint = $user32->DeclareSub("BeginPaint", "i", "i", "P"); my $DrawText = $user32->DeclareSub("DrawTextA", "i", "I", "p", "I", "P", "I"); my $EndPaint = $user32->DeclareSub("EndPaint", "i", "i", "P"); my $DefWindowProc = $user32->DeclareSub("DefWindowProcA", "i", "i", "i", "i", "i"); my $LoadIcon = $user32->DeclareSub("LoadIconA", "i", "i", "i"); my $LoadCursor = $user32->DeclareSub("LoadCursorA", "i", "i", "i"); my $GetStockObject = $gdi32->DeclareSub("GetStockObject", "i", "i"); my $RegisterClass = $user32->DeclareSub("RegisterClassA", "i", "P"); my $CreateWindowEx = $user32->DeclareSub("CreateWindowExA", "i", "i", "p", "p", "i", "i", "i", "i", "i", "i", "i", "i", "i"); my $ShowWindow = $user32->DeclareSub("ShowWindow", "i", "i", "i"); my $UpdateWindow = $user32->DeclareSub("UpdateWindow", "i", "i"); my $GetMessage = $user32->DeclareSub("GetMessageA", "i", "P", "i", "i", "i"); my $TranslateMessage = $user32->DeclareSub("TranslateMessage", "i", "P"); my $DispatchMessage = $user32->DeclareSub("DispatchMessageA", "i", "P"); # # Main window's callback. # sub window_proc { my ($hwnd, $uMsg, $wParam, $lParam) = @_; # Wanna log your window messages? #print "hwnd=$hwnd, uMsg=$uMsg, wParam=$wParam, lParam=$lParam\n"; if ($uMsg == 0x0201 # WM_LBUTTONDOWN || $uMsg == 0x0002 # WM_DESTROY ) { &$PostQuitMessage(0); return 0; } elsif ($uMsg == 0x000F) { # WM_PAINT my $text = "Hello from Perl!"; # This should be big enough for a PAINTSTRUCT, I hope: my $ps = "\0" x 1024; my $rect = "\0" x 64; my $hdc; &$GetClientRect($hwnd, $rect); $hdc = &$BeginPaint($hwnd, $ps); &$DrawText($hdc, $text, length($text), $rect, 0x00000025); # DT_SINGLELINE | DT_CENTER | DT_VCENTER &$EndPaint($hwnd, $ps); return 0; } return &$DefWindowProc($hwnd, $uMsg, $wParam, $lParam); } my $wnd_proc = new C::DynaLib::Callback( \&window_proc, "i", "i", "i", "i", "i"); # # Register the window class. # my $wc; my $rwc = tie $wc, 'WNDCLASS'; $rwc->style(0x0003); # CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW $rwc->lpfnWndProc($wnd_proc->Ptr()); $rwc->hInstance(0x00400000); $rwc->hIcon(&$LoadIcon(0, 32512)); $rwc->hCursor(&$LoadCursor(0, 32512)); $rwc->hbrBackground(&$GetStockObject(0)); # WHITE_BRUSH $rwc->lpszClassName("w32test"); &$RegisterClass($wc) or die "can't register window class"; # # Create the window. # my $title_text = "Perl Does Win32"; my $hwnd = &$CreateWindowEx(0, $rwc->lpszClassName, $title_text, 0x00CF0000, # WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW 0x80000000, # CW_USEDEFAULT 0x80000000, 0x80000000, 0x80000000, 0, 0, $rwc->hInstance, 0) or die "can't create window"; &$ShowWindow($hwnd, 10); # SW_SHOWDEFAULT &$UpdateWindow($hwnd); # # Message loop. # my $msg = "\0" x 64; while (&$GetMessage($msg, 0, 0, 0)) { &$TranslateMessage($msg); &$DispatchMessage($msg); }