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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.

=back


=head1 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/

=head2 cygwin

g++ needs to be installed

  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make test
  make install

=head2 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
C<sdkvars.bat> script from the.NET SDK that will set a number of environment
variables. In addition you'll have to run the C<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

=head1 SEE ALSO

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

=head1 TODO

Here are a few items where help would be welcome. 

=head2 Perl only

 Improve Tests
 Improve documentation
 Add more examples and explain them

=head2 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.

=cut

=head1 COPYRIGHT

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

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.

=head1 AUTHORS

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

Jarek Jurasz (jurasz@imb.uni-karlsruhe.de), http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~gm07 wrote