use Win32:GUI::Constants;
or
use Win32:GUI::Constants ();
or
use Win32::GUI::Constansts [@pragmata,] [@symbols];
Win32::GUI::Constants is a module that provides definitions and export capabilities for Win32 API constant values. There is access to more than 1700 Win32 API constants. Nothing is exported by default.
Win32::GUI::Constants provides its own 'import' funcion for performance reasons, but follows the Exporter module's definition for the syntax, with some additional pragmata to control the export behaviour.
use Win32::GUI::Constants;
This imports all the default symbols into your namespace. Currently there are no default symbols.
use Win32::GUI::Constants ();
This loads the module without importing any symbols.
use Win32::GUI::Constants qw(...);
This imports only the symbols listed into your namespace. An error occurs if you try to import a symbol that does not exist. The advanced export features are accessed like this, but with list entries that are syntactically distinct from symbol names.
If any of the entries in an import list begins with !, : or / then the list is treated as a series of specifications which either add to or delete from the list of names to import. They are processed left to right. Specifications are in the form:
[!]name This name only [!]:tag All names in class 'tag' [!]/pattern/ All names which match pattern
A leading ! indicates that matching names should be deleted from the list of names to import.
Remember that most patterns (using //) will need to be anchored
with a leading ^, e.g., /^TPM_/ rather than /TPM/.
You can say BEGIN { $Win32::GUI::Constants::Verbose=1 } before your
use Win32::GUI::Constants qw( ... ); line to see how the
specifications are being processed and what is actually being imported
into your namespace.
If any of the entries in an import begins with a - then the entry is treated as a pragma that affects the way in which the exporting is performed.
The following pragmata ae provided to affect the behaviour of the export capabilities of Win32::GUI::Constants.
Causes the constant subroutine body to be generated at compile time. This sacrifices some compile time speed for the ability for the constants that are listed to be inlined by the compiler, which gains some runtime speed.
The same behaviour as -inline, except that the constants
that are listed are not exported, and so must be used by their
fully qualified package names.
(e.g. Win32::GUI::Constants::CW_USEDEFAULT)
Causes exported symbols to be exported to the pkgname namespace, rather than to the caller's namespace. pkgname must appear as the next item in the list. Omitting pkgname from the list is likely to cause behaviour that is difficult to understand.
Causes Win32::GUI::Constants' AUTOLOAD() subroutine
to be exported, making all non-exported constants
available in that namespace. Don't do this if the
package you are exporting to already has an
AUTOLOAD() subroutine.
See the Win32::GUI::Constants::Tags documentation for available tag classes.
Use of :tag export definitions adds some overhead both in terms of compile-time speed and memory usage.
my $value = Win32::GUI::Constants::constant('SOME_CONST');
The constant() function may be used to perform the lookup of a string
constant identifier to its numeric value. This has the advantage of not
resulting in any memory overhead due to created symbol table entries,
at the expense of speed, as the lookup must be performed every time this
function is called.
Returns the constant's numeric value on success, undef on failure.
No prerequsites other than perl core modules (strict, warnings, warnings::register, Carp).
Win32::GUI::Constants may be useful to other Win32::* packages.
MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com and individual api documentation for more information on constants required for any particular call.
Homepage: http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/.
For further support join the users mailing list
(perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net) from the website
at http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-users.
There is a searchable list archive at
http://sourceforge.net/mail/
Not all constants are covered. If you find missing constants please raise a feature request at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/
Robert May, <robertemay@users.sourceforge.net>
Many thanks to the Win32::GUI developers at http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/ for suggestions and assistance.
Copyright 2005..2008 Robert May, All Rights Reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
