Re^3: How to get a window's menu as a Win32::GUI::Menu object?

[Anonymous Monk]

Perhaps I've misunderstood you, but it appears blessing the handle just gives me a new (empty) menu.

I don't think so, blessing a hash doesn't create a handle (windows does that), it just gives you an object you can call methods on

OTOH, the code you have posted includes no bless anywhere :)

As far as the functional interface goes, can you be more specific?

You know, I could, or you could just read the link I posted :)

If you want anything more specific than that, you're going to have to post code that compiles and runs -- I'm not really interested in writing complete examples from scratch for non-portable-unmaintained-toolkits , its not fun for me :)

Also, where are you getting your information from?

See Win32/OLE related tutorials/examples/resources , they discuss many win32 things, how the MFC/win32-GUI system works (its all handles underneath, a handle is just a number)

[shadrack]

I don't think so, blessing a hash doesn't create a handle (windows does that), it just gives you an object you can call methods on

Which is why I don't understand why it's relevant. How does it help my solve the problem?

OTOH, the code you have posted includes no bless anywhere :)

Fair enough:

#!perl
use Win32::GUI;

&Main();
exit 0;

sub Main {

    my $Menu = Win32::GUI::MakeMenu(
        '&Program' => 'Program',
        ' > &Alpha' => { -name => 'Alpha', -onClick => \&Alpha_Select 
+},
        ' > &Beta' => { -name => 'Beta', -onClick => \&Beta_Select },
    );

    my $WinMain = Win32::GUI::Window->new(
        -name => 'Main',
        -menu => $Menu,
        -text => 'Menu Test',
        -width => 300,
        -height => 200,
        -onTerminate => \&Main_Terminate,
    );

    $WinMain->Show();
    Win32::GUI::Dialog();
}

sub Main_Terminate { -1; }
sub Alpha_Select { 1; }

sub Beta_Select {
    my($Window)=@_;
    my $menuhandle=$Window->GetMenu();
    my $menu = bless { -handle => $menuhandle }, 'Win32::GUI::Menu';
    $menu->{'Beta'}->Enabled(0); # Doesn't work.
    return 1;
}

You know, I could, or you could just read the link I posted :)

You posted a link to the tutorial. As I explained, I've already read the tutorial. I read it AGAIN after you posted the link, and yet AGAIN just now. I've read it three times in the last hour and still -- I don't see anything that's relevant to the problem, so again, can you please point out specifically what it is in the tutorial that's going to help me solve my problem?

Also, where are you getting your information from?

http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/docs.cgi

http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg00945.html

[Anonymous Monk]

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Fair enough: CODE

Employing Basic debugging checklist I get

(
  bless({
    -handle => 28640341,
    Alpha   => bless({ -id => 102, -menu => 41813267 }, "Win32::GUI::M
+enuItem"),
    Beta    => bless({ -id => 103, -menu => 41813267 }, "Win32::GUI::M
+enuItem"),
    Program => bless({ -handle => 41813267 }, "Win32::GUI::MenuButton"
+),
  }, "Win32::GUI::Menu"),
  bless({
    # tied Win32::GUI::Window
    -accel  => 0,
    -handle => 7734092,
    -name   => "Main",
    -type   => 0,
  }, "Win32::GUI::Window"),
)
bless({ -handle => 13304919 }, "Win32::GUI::Menu")

so what you want to do is skip GetMenu and either use global variables , or store $Menu inside $WinMain

Like this

#!/usr/bin/perl --
#!perl
use Win32::GUI;
use Data::Dump;

Main( @ARGV );
exit 0;

sub Main {

    my $Menu = Win32::GUI::MakeMenu(
        '&Program' => 'Program',
        ' > &Alpha' => { -name => 'Alpha', -onClick => \&Alpha_Select 
+},
        ' > &Beta' => { -name => 'Beta', -onClick => \&Beta_Select },
    );

    my $WinMain = Win32::GUI::Window->new(
        -name => 'Main',
        -menu => $Menu,
        -text => 'Menu Test',
        -width => 300,
        -height => 200,
        -onTerminate => \&Main_Terminate,
    );

    $WinMain->Show();
    $WinMain->{__special_Menu} = $Menu;
    dd $Menu, $WinMain;
    Win32::GUI::Dialog();
    delete $WinMain->{__special_Menu}; # "DESTROY"/destructor/manual m
+emory cycle break
}

sub Main_Terminate { -1; }
sub Alpha_Select { 1; }

sub Beta_Select {
    my($Window)=@_;
    my $menuhandle=$Window->GetMenu();
    my $menu = bless { -handle => $menuhandle }, 'Win32::GUI::Menu';
    dd $menu;
#~     $menu->{'Beta'}->Enabled(0); # Doesn't work.
    $Window->{__special_Menu}->{'Beta'}->Enabled(0);
    return 1;
}

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I'll be back with more:) maybe

[shadrack]

I don't know, but it certainly answers the question you asked , and I quote
"returns a menu HANDLE, not an object reference. This seems to be more or less useless -- unless there's a way to turn the handle into an object? "

Yes, but not just any old object -- THE object the handle was associated with. Sorry, but I would have thought this was obvious given the context of the question. :-/

I am actually using a global now, but I'm looking for a way around it since I'm also using threads which sometimes don't seem to play well with global Win32::GUI object variables.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions. Storing $Menu inside $WinMain is the solution I'm looking for. I tried something like this before (on a different Win32::GUI issue), but I couldn't make it work -- it's been a while, but IIRC the stored variable refused to "stick" to the object (it was undefined when I tried to access it later). Chalk it up to my lack of understanding of perl's object handling I guess.