Win32::VisualStyles - Apply Win32 Visual (aka XP) Styles to windows INSTALLING The perl standard build process is followed: perl Makefile.PL [n|d]make [n|d]make test [n|d]make install Should build with no warnings using MS Visual C compiler (MSCV6 and upwards). To build with Mingw/gcc: a recent Mingw package should do the trick. Development and testing has been with gcc 3.4.5. This is the Mingw distribution that ships with Strawberry Perl Portable. To build under Cygwin: This has not been tested, but should have the same constrains as building with Mingw/gcc above. x64 builds: This has not been tested, but there is no known reason why this should not work. SEEING IT IN ACTION If you have the Win32::GUI module available then there is a script, themes.pl, that you can run to see the effect of the various API calls. Otherwise try these one-liners: C:\>perl -MWin32 -e"Win32::MsgBox(q(Some Message))" C:\>perl -MWin32 -MWin32::VisualStyles -e"Win32::MsgBox(q(Some Message))" AUTHOR Robert May