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Changes for version 0.18 - 2001-11-12

  • Support for Borland 5.5 has been added.
  • Win32API-Net has been upgraded to v0.09 (thanks to Bret Giddings). See APINet/Changes for list of changes.
  • Win32-EventLog has been upgraded to v0.072 (thanks to Jan Dubois). EventLog/Changes has a list of changes.
  • Win32-Internet has a fix for passive FTP mode (thanks to Steve Raynesford and Jan Dubois). The version number has been bumped to v0.082. See the POD documentation in Win32::Internet for more information.
  • Win32-NetAdmin has been upgraded to v0.08 (thanks to Doug Lankshear). See NetAdmin/Changes for more info.
  • Win32-NetResource has been upgraded to v0.052. See NetResource/Changes for details.
  • Win32-OLE has been upgraded to v0.1502 (thanks to Jan Dubois). OLE/Changes has a comprehensive list of changes.
  • Win32-Process has had a few incremental improvements (thanks to Doug Lankshear, Jand Dubois and Blair Zajac). The version number is now v0.09. Process/Changes describes the changes.
  • Win32-TieRegistry has been upgraded to v0.24 (thanks to Tye McQueen). See TieRegistry/Changes for the list of fixes.
  • A Win32::GuidGen() function has been added. This function generates a new GUID every time it is called.
  • Support for building it under Win64 has been added (with additional help from Randolf Werner <randolf.werner@sap.com>).
  • Various other minor cleanups and bug fixes.
  • This release has only been verified to work with Perl 5.6.0 or later. If you find problems building it with older releases, please send patches.

Documentation

What's new in Win32::OLE
The

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