0.01 Wed Aug 12 21:58:13 1998

• original version; created by h2xs 1.18

0.02 Sun Oct 25 20:18:17 1998

• Added several Win32 API functions (typemap courtesy of Win32::APIRegistry): SetForegroundWindow GetDesktopWindow GetWindow GetWindowText GetClassName GetParent GetWindowLong SetFocus
• Ported FindWindowLike (MS-KB, Article ID: Q147659) from VB to Perl. Instead of using VB's "like", I used Perl regexps.

0.03 Sun Oct 31 18:31:52 1999

• Perhaps first version released thru CPAN (user: erngui).
• Changed name from Win32::Test to Win32::GuiTest
• Fixed bug: using strdup resulted in using system malloc and perl's free, resulting in a runtime error. This way we always use perl's malloc. Got the idea from 'ext\Dynaloader\dl_aix.xs:calloc'.

0.04 Fri Jan 7 17:44:00 2000

• Fixed Compatibility with ActivePerl 522. Thanks to Johannes Maehner <johanm@camline.com> for the initial patch. There were two main issues: /1/ ActivePerl (without CAPI=TRUE) compiles extensions in C++ mode

  (some casts from void*, etc.. were needed). /2/ The old typemap + buffers.h I was using had been rendered

  incompatible by changes in ActivePerl. As the incompatible typemaps were redundant, I deleted them. Now it works on ActivePerl (both using 'perl makefile.pl' and 'perl makefile.pl CAPI=TRUE') and on CPAN perl (http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/stable.zip).

• As requests for changes keep comming in, I've decided to put it all under version control (cvs if you're curious about it).

0.05 Sat Mar 11 23:11:42 2000

• Added support for sending function keys (e.g. "%{F4}"). A new test script is added to the distribution (eg\notepad.pl) to test this functionality.
• Code cleanup to make adding new keywords easier.

0.06 Sun Mar 12 01:51:18 2000

• Added support for sending mouse events. Thanks to Ben Shern <shernbj@louisville.stortek.com> for the idea and original code. Also added 'eg\paint.pl' to the distribution to test this functionality.
• Code cleanup.

0.07 Sun Nov 19 13:02:00 2000

• Added MouseMoveAbsPix to allow moving the mouse to an absolute pixel coordinate instead of using mouse_event's (0, 0) to (65535, 65535) coordinates. Thanks to Phill Wolf <pbwolf@bellatlantic.net> for the idea and original code. Also added 'eg\paint_abs.pl' to the distribution to test this functionality.
• Added binaries for the ActivePerl distribution.

0.08 Sun Dec 17 19:33:07 2000

• Added WMGetText to allow getting the content of an EDIT window. See 'eg\notepad_text.pl' for more details. Thanks to Mauro <m_servizi@yahoo.it> from Italy for the idea.

0.09 Thu Jan 4 22:30:50 2001

• Added {SPC} action to sendkeys to simulate hitting the spacebar. Thanks to Sohrab Niramwalla <sohrab.niramwalla@utoronto.ca> for the idea.

1.00 Sun May 13 22:02:01 2001

• Fixed a bug in FindWindowLike that caused duplicated window handles to be returned.
• Simplified the logic in FindWindowLike.
• Added IsChild and GetChildDepth functions. Exported GetChildWindows.
• Added more tests (tightening the net in XP-speak)
• Added 'eg\spy--.pl' to the distribution.

1.10 Sun Jun 17 19:54:27 2001

• Added GetWindowRect, GetScreenRes, ScreenToNorm and NormToScreen, following suggestion and code from Frank van Dijk <fvdijk@oke.nl>.
• Added SendMessage, PostMessage, GetCursorPos, AttachWin, additional SendKeys flags (Windows keys and context menu), WMSetText, GetCaretPos, GetFocus, GetActiveWindow, GetForegroundWindow, SetActiveWindow, EnableWindow, IsWindowEnabled, IsWindowVisible and ShowWindow (+ constants to use it).

  Thanks to Jarek Jurasz <jurasz@imb.uni-karlsruhe.de> for all of them.

  Jarek also provided two scripts: 'eg\showmouse.pl' and 'eg\showwin.pl'. I found showwin very interesting (if somewhat dangerous!).

  He also fixed an export list problem (WMGetKey was mentioned instead of WMGetText) and added export tags :ALL and :SW, so that full module functionality can be imported with

use Win32::GuiTest qw(:ALL :SW);

• Added IsWindow, ScreenToClient, ClientToScreen, IsCheckedButton and IsGrayedButton.
• SendKeys now takes an optional parameter to change the default 50 ms delay between keystrokes. Suggested by Wilson P. Snyder II <wsnyder@world.std.com>.

1.20 Wed Jul 18 20:44:11 2001

• Added GetComboText, GetComboContents, GetListText and GetListContents to allow easy extraction of data from list and combo boxes.
• Added 'eg\fonts.pl' to show the new functionality. This script opens the Notepad "Font" dialog and prints to stdout the contents of the Font combobox.
• Fixed bug in SendMessage (and others), where the return value was lost Caused by a missing OUTPUT tag.
• Added IsKeyPressed function. Suggested by Rudi Farkas. See 'eg\keypress.pl' for a demo. Works even if the script is running in the background.

1.30 Sat Dec 1 20:50:02 2001

• Fixed bad POD formating. Added podchecker and html pod generation to makedist.bat.
• Added PushButton and PushChildButton. Based on code from an anonymous contributor. Thanks! See 'eg\pushbutton.pl' for an example.
• Fixed a problem when building with Active State, build 526.

1.40 --- --- - --:--:-- ----

Big thanks to an anonymous contributor for the following pieces:

• Added WaitWindowLike and WaitWindow. See 'eg\WaitWindow.pl' for an example. The test.pl code changed as a consequence as I now use WaitWindowLike instead of sleep+FindWindowLike.
• Added IsWindowStyle and IsWindowStyleEx and 'eg/IsWindowStyle.pl'.
• Added SelectTabItem and 'eg/selecttabitem.pl'.
• Added MenuSelect and 'eg/menuselect.pl'.
• Refactored the test code.
• Fixed a couple of PPCODE bugs reported by a nice contributor.
• Added SetWindowPos (thanks to Paul Covington).
• Several TabCtrl functions (also courtesy of Paul Covington).

1.49 Wed May 08 23:08:09 2002

• Added Win32::GuiTest::Cmd module to simplify command-line type tasks.
• Added DibSect module (writen by Jarek Jurasz) that allows screen-shot type functionality.
• Added some pod documentation submitted by Jarek Jurasz.
• Cleaned-up the pod docs.
• Moved all constants into Win32/GuiTest/GuiTest.pc to allow them to be autogenerated in the future.
• Rationalized EXPORT_OK.
• Changed makefile.pl to include author info in the ppd file.

1.49.1 Wed May 22 00:00:00 2002

• Improved IsKeyPressed.

1.49.2 Tue Jun 04 15:39:23 2002

• Improved IsKeyPressed (again).
• Added VK_ constants and KEYEVENTF_ flags.
• Added SendRawKey function.

1.50 (Test Version) Sun Jun 22 ??:??:?? 2003

• Added use of AttachWin() for those functions that require the window to be attached to the calling thread's message queue.

1.50.1-ad Thu Apr 08 20:45:00 2004

• Fixed crash with MenuSelect when used on MDI applications with documents maximized. (CTRONDLP)
• Implemented pertinent parts of Jonathan A's patch for CygWin Perl. (CTRONDLP)
• Added WindowFromPoint function and wptr.pl example script. (CTRONDLP)
• Added the MouseClick function and documentation. (CTRONDLP)

1.50.2-ad Sun May 30 12:40:00 2004

• Push*Button() functions will now correctly not manipulate disabled buttons. (CTRONDLP)
• Fixed various compiler warnings. (CTRONDLP)
• Minor updates to the documentation. (CTRONDLP)
• Included initial script recording application; which is still a work-in-progress. (CTRONDLP)

1.50.3-ad Wed Feb 02 17:42:00 2005

• Add more examles in eg directory (SZABGAB)
• Tests using Test::More now (SZABGAB)
• Some more documentation (SZABGAB)
• Explanation how to setup development environment (SZABGAB)
• A number of new exported methods regarding Menu items such as GetMenuItemInfo
• Added support for some 32bit controls: GetListViewContents, SelListViewItem, SelListViewItemText, GetTabItems, SelTabItem, SelTabItemText, SelTreeViewItemPath (CTRONDLP)
• Added basic mouse wheel support: MouseMoveWheel (CTRONDLP)
• Added IsListViewItemSel and IsTabItemSel (CTRONDLP)
• Updated SetFocus routine with AttachWin code (CTRONDLP)

1.50.4 Sun Oct 02 15:00:00 2005

• Added some code to Makefile.PL to help with environments where file name case is of concern. (CTRONDLP)
• Fixed case of GetMenuItemID
• FindWindowLike will now handle control Ids = 0.
• Added following functions:
  • AllocateVirtualBuffer
  • FreeVirtualBuffer
  • ReadFromVirtualBuffer
  • WriteToVirtualBuffer All those functions can be implementing marshaling when sending messages to advanced controls
  • WaitForReady
  • SelComboString
  • PushChildById
• Rewriten function SelTreeViewItemPath
• Modified POD in GuiTest.pm in INSTALLATION section. Added SEE ALSO
• Added Rafe Lafrance's GetPopupHandle

1.50.5 Tue Nov 29 15:00:00 2005

• Added multicolumn GetListViewContents, implemented by Denis Howe. Thanks to Charles Kuo for testing this

1.51 Fri Sep 28 10:58:05 CEST 2007

• Compile and pass tests under cygwin; file cases and locations rearranged
• Calculator test fixed
• Add POD tests, remove explicit podchecker and pod2html calls
• Remove various obsolete targets (ppm,Build.PL,readme.html) and shape up Makefile.PL for modern ExtUtils::MakeMaker

1.52 Fri Oct 5 16:00 CEST 2007

• IsKeyPressed and SendKeys recognize integers as VK codes

1.53 Sat Oct 6 14:00 CEST 2007

• Add UnicodeSemantics()
• GetWindowText and its called (FindWindowLike etc) can operate in Unicode now

1.54 Tue Oct 9 10:00 CEST 2007

• SendKeys rewritten in Perl to allow more powerful grouping and to understand unicode.

1.55 Tue Dec 15 22:00 CEST 2007

• First attempts to make Win32::GuiTest object oriented. FindWindowLike modified (changes are backward compatible)

1.56 Wed Oct 1 13:28:34 CEST 2008

• Allow 'make dist' and limited 'make test' on non-Win32 platforms
• Screen to mickey conversion patch by Tony Skelding

1.57 Jun 13 2010

• Build on strawberry perl

1.58 Oct 31 2010

• Build on x64 systems
• Hooks fix by Oleg Prokhorov