From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29407 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 2005 13:23:26 -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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 29396 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Aug 2005 13:23:19 -0000 Received: from koeln.convey.de (HELO koeln.convey.de) (82.139.192.138) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:23:19 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.12] ([192.168.1.12]:4593) by koeln.convey.de with [XMail 1.21 ESMTP Server] id for from ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:23:15 +0200 Message-ID: <42EF73C1.8090801@familiehaase.de> Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:23:00 -0000 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alan napier CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is window manipulation available in perl? References: <200202121604.g1CG4l007583@wolf.cimsoft.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2005-08/txt/msg00032.txt.bz2 alan napier wrote: > If you want to use the cygwin perl you will have to download then > extract each component of the cpan library modules to their respective > directories: \doc \lib ect. > > Much easier use the active perl which does all that for you. Just make > sure the active perl comes before the cygwin perl in the windows path. > > Robert Mecklenburg wrote: > >> 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 I don't know why this message shows up now, however Alan Napier posted his reply to this list, today. The original question is from 2002: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00587.html I hope this issue is resolved now? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/