ANNOUNCE: Win32::GUI v1.03

I am please to announce that v1.03 of Win32::GUI is available for
download from SourceForge.

Win32::GUI is a Perl extension allowing creation of native Win32 GUI
applications.

MORE INFORMATION

Project Homepage:
http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/

Project summary and download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/perl-win32-gui/

Release notes:

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=16572& release_id=373056

RELEASE SUMMARY

This is a summary of changes between Win32-GUI V1.02 and V1.03
See the CHANGELOG file in the distribution for the
full detail.

V1.03 is primarily a bug-fix release.

New Features in V1.03
=====================
+ New methods:
- Win32::GUI::DC StretchBlt
- Win32::GUI GetParent UserData

+ New events:
- none

+ New Documentation:
- Win32::GUI::RichEdit SetCharFormat GetCharFormat SetEventMask
- Win32::GUI::GetAsyncKeyState
- Win32::GUI::Timer and all Timer methods
- various other minor documentation corrections and enhancements

+ Other New things
- Added Version information to GUI.dll: right-click to see Version
- many tests added
- added listvew_drag_drop.pl to the samples demonstrating the use
of drag/drop with a ListView
- ImageList support is now complete under MinGW and Cygwin if
headers are recent enough (w32api V3.2 or higher)
- Updated all the Tutorial documentation and added tutorial
examples to the demos directory.

Fixes in V1.03
==============
+ Reported Bugs
- Fix to 4 item call to TrackPopupMenu. Tracker 1241830
- GUI.pm Fix to logic in Win32::GUI::Class::new for perl 5.8.6
and above. Tracker:1236053
- GUI.pm fixed Win32::GUI::Brush to return undef on failure
- GUI_messageloops.cpp: Tracker 1246429 fixed WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC
for handling readonly Edit controls
- Tooltip.xs, GUI.xs fixed Tooltip styles (Tracker: 1273134)
- GUI_MessageLoops.cpp change all mouse event handlers to use
GET_X_LPARAM and GET_Y_LPARAM rather than HIWORD and
LOWORD (Tracker: 1262098)
- GUI.xs fixed UnHook() to resolve perl 5.6/5.8 differences in
av_delete, causing a warning in perl 5.8 (Tracker: 1164766)
- GUI.xs: Changed DoModal's use of GetParent to
GetWindow(hwnd, GW_OWNER). (Tracker: 1165626)
- GUI_messageloops.cpp: Tracker:1236283 Change to WM_ERASEBACKGROUND
to allow -background to work with windows

+ Other Bugs
- GUI_messageloops.cpp: Fixed WM_CTLCOLOR* to use window class
background brush if there is one
- Richedit.xs fix SetCharCofmat/GetCharFormat option
- GUI.pm Timer fixes (Reini Urban)
- GUI.pm fixed Win32::GUI::DC::new() with no params to return a
correct object
- GUI_Constants.cpp: correct TMP_NONOTIFY to TPM_NONOTIFY
(aschwarz1309)
- Listbox.xs: fixed buffer overrun in GetText causing crash (Jez White)
- Combobox.xs: fixed buffer overrun in GetLBText causing crash
(Jez White)
- GUI.xs: fixed return value of GetAsyncKeyState
- Re-worked Win32::GUI::Timer package implementation. Now destruction
works correctly.

Contributors to this release:
=============================
Dan Dascalescu
Reini Urban
Jeremy White
aschwarz1309
Robert May

My thanks to all the others who have provided invaluable comments and
testing.

Rob. 22nd November 2005