Is window manipulation available in perl?

[Gerrit P. Haase]

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
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