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Changes for version 0.16 - 2000-05-22

  • Support for building under Perl 5.6.0.
  • Partial support for passing Unicode strings to many of the extensions, under Perl 5.6.0. Not all extensions support this yet.
  • Win32API-File has been upgraded to v0.09 (thanks to Tye McQueen). See APIFile/Changes for the detailed list of changes. The APIFile/ex directory contains several new examples.
  • Win32API-Registry has been upgraded to v0.22 (thanks again to Tye McQueen). See APIRegistry/Changes for the details on what's new.
  • Win32-Clipboard has been upgraded to v0.51 (thanks to Aldo Calpini). This version has documentation in POD format, and supports three different formats to access clipboard data, and comes with sample code. See Clipboard/README and the Clipboard/samples directory.
  • Win32-OLE has been upgraded to v0.13 (thanks to Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com>). The article on Win32::OLE from The Perl Journal is now included in POD format. For the detailed list of changes, see OLE/Changes and OLE/lib/Win32/OLE/NEWS.pod.
  • Various minor cleanups and bug fixes.
  • A TODO file has been added.

Documentation

What's new in Win32::OLE

Modules

Low-level access to Win32 system API calls for files/dirs.
Perl interface to the Windows NT LanManager API account management functions.
Low-level access to Win32 system API calls from WINREG.H
Monitor events related to files and directories
Interaction with the Windows clipboard
Win32 Console and Character Mode Functions
Use Win32 event objects from Perl
Process Win32 Event Logs from Perl
manage file attributes in perl
manage FileSecurity Discretionary Access Control Lists in perl
Base class for Win32 synchronization objects
Access to WININET.DLL functions
Use Win32 mutex objects from Perl
manage network groups and users in perl
manage network resources in perl
ODBC Extension for Win32
OLE Automation extensions
Extract constant definitions from TypeLib
OLE Automation Collection Objects
OLE National Language Support
Create and modify OLE VARIANT variables
accessing the Windows NT Performance Counter
Win32 Named Pipe
Create and manipulate processes.
accessing the Windows registry [obsolete, use Win32::TieRegistry]
Use Win32 semaphore objects from Perl
manage system services in perl
An extension to play with Windows sounds
Powerful and easy ways to manipulate a registry [on Win32 for now].

Provides

in APIFile/ExtUtils/Myconst2perl.pm
in APIRegistry/ExtUtils/Myconst2perl.pm
OLE
in OLE/lib/OLE.pm
in OLE/lib/OLE.pm
in OLE/lib/OLE.pm
in TieRegistry/Tie/Registry.pm
in OLE/lib/OLE.pm
in Win32.pm
in OLE/lib/Win32/OLE/Lite.pm
in OLE/lib/Win32/OLE/Lite.pm
in OLE/lib/Win32/OLE/TypeInfo.pm
in Shortcut/Shortcut.pm
in Sound/Sound.pm
in WinError/WinError.pm