From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25876 invoked by alias); 12 Feb 2002 16:04:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 25734 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2002 16:04:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wolf.cimsoft.com) (204.246.133.198) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Feb 2002 16:04:50 -0000 Received: from OOPS.cimsoft.com (oops.cimsoft.com [10.1.1.230]) by wolf.cimsoft.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1CG4l007583 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:04:47 -0700 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:04:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200202121604.g1CG4l007583@wolf.cimsoft.com> From: Robert Mecklenburg To: Cygwin Users List Subject: Is window manipulation available in perl? X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00587.txt.bz2 First, please excuse the newbie question. I don't think this is off-topic, but my judgement isn't the one that counts. ;-) I've done a good bit of searching with google, faqs, and posting to comp.lang.perl.misc, but can't figure this out... I'm using the most recent cygwin port of perl (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) on windows 2000. I want to send "alt+f x" to an Outlook Express window from a perl script. It seems that ActiveState Perl can do this with the Win32::Setupsup package, but that the vanilla perl (or cygwin's perl) cannot do this? I tried to install the Win32-CtrlGUI-0.22 package from cpan.org but it requires Win32::Setupsup which is not on cpan.org. I found this package on perlring.org but it seems to require ppm. I found references to ppm at activestate.com but it appears to be a feature of ActivePerl rather than of "just perl". So the question is: "how to I send keystrokes to a Windows window with cygwin Perl"? I'm using cygwin tools heavily in this perl script and I'd hate to have to use ActiveState perl. Partly because I love cygwin and partly because the path translation between a non-cygwin perl and cygwin tools would introduce messiness I'd like to avoid. Suggestions welcome. Thanks, Robert Mecklenburg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/