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    "SendKeys" translated unicode characters into set of ALT+NUMPAD
    keystrokes. Note that not all applications can understand unicode input.

    UnicodeSemantics [BOOL]
        If a boolean parameter is set, changes the semantics flag for
        functions that return results of either A or W syscalls. If the
        parameter is not set, returns the current value of the flag.

DEVELOPMENT
    If you would like to participate in the development of this module there
    are several thing that need to be done. For some of them you only need
    Perl and the latest source of the module from CVS for others you'll also
    need to have a C++ compiler.

    To get the latest source code you need a CVS client and then do the
    following:

     cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winguitest login
     cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winguitest co Win32-GuiTest

    See more detailed explanations here
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/winguitest/

  cygwin
    g++ needs to be installed

      perl Makefile.PL
      make
      make test
      make install

  MSVC environment
    To setup a development environment for compiling the C++ code you can
    either buy Visual Studio with Visual C++ or you can download a few
    things free of charge from Microsoft. There might be other ways too we
    have not explored.

    The instructions to get the free environment are here:

    From http://www.microsoft.com/ download and install:

     1) Microsoft .NET Framework Version 1.1 Redistributable Package
     2) .NET Framework SDK Version 1.1

    This is not enough as there are a number of header files and libraries
    that are not included in these distributions. You can get them from
    Microsoft in two additional downloads. For these you will have to be
    using Internet Explorer. Visit

      http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/

    and install

     1) Core SDK
     2) Microsoft Data Access Components 2.7

    Before you can compile you'll have to open a command prompt and execute
    the "sdkvars.bat" script from the.NET SDK that will set a number of
    environment variables. In addition you'll have to run the "setenv.bat"
    you got with the Core SDK (and located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft
    SDK) with the appropriate parameters. For me this was /XP32 /RETAIL

    In order to finish the packaging you'll also need the tar, gzip and zip
    utilities from

     http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html

    I have not tried it yet.

    After this you will probably be able to do the normal cycle:

     perl makefile.pl
     nmake
     nmake test

     or run

     perl makedist.pl

SEE ALSO
    Module's documentation is available at
    <http://www.piotrkaluski.com/files/winguitest/docs/index.html>.

TODO
    Here are a few items where help would be welcome.

  Perl only
     Improve Tests
     Improve documentation
     Add more examples and explain them

  C++ compiler needed
     Add more calls to the C++ backend
     Fix current calls

     32bit custom controls (some already implemented)
     Possibly Java interfaces
     Retreive the list of the menu of a given window.

COPYRIGHT
    The SendKeys function is based on the Delphi sourcecode published by Al
    Williams <http://www.al-williams.com/awc/> in Dr.Dobbs
    <http://www.drdobbs.com/keys-to-the-kingdom/184410429>.

    Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Ernesto Guisado, (c) 2004 Dennis K. Paulsen. All
    rights reserved. This program is free software; You may distribute it
    and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHORS
    Ernesto Guisado (erngui@acm.org), http://triumvir.org

    Jarek Jurasz (jurasz@imb.uni-karlsruhe.de),
    http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~gm07 wrote DibSect and some other pieces
    (see "Changes" for details).

    Dennis K. Paulsen (ctrondlp@cpan.org) wrote various pieces (See
    "Changes" for details).

    Dmitry Karasik (dmitry@karasik.eu.org) added support for unicode and