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Windows Custom Controls

By Smith, William L. & Ward, Robert

Publishers Summary:
( Making Windows controls work the way you want ( Learn how the standard controls are engineered and how to change them This book explains how to write custom controls for Microsoft Windows. With custom controls you can extend the Windows API by creating components that are perfectly suited to your needs. Custom controls encapsulate and integrate specialized functions, and work as if they were an integral part of Windows. This book provides a powerful set of finished, ready-to-use custom controls. The controls are developed using a coherent design and implementation strategy that minimizes the coding necessary to create a new control. Smith and Ward show you how to build replacements for standard controls, how to create controls that can handle huge amounts of text, how to subclass existing controls, and how to create hybrid controls. The book also shows you how to create a toolbox class, a custom dialog class, and how to interface your custom controls to the Dialog Editor integrating the controls into the development environment. Once interfaced to the Dialog Editor, a custom control is truly as easy to use as a standard control. The book includes all the code for all of the controls, all of the demonstration programs, and all of the dialog interface modules. The companion disk contains all of the code in the book, along with icons, bitmaps, and precompiled executables and Dynamic Link Libraries. All of the code compiles properly under Microsoft C/C++ 7.0, Quick C for Windows 1.0, and Borland C++ 3.1. The code has been tested only under Windows 3.1, but should also work under Windows 3.0. The code disk also includes the Microsoft help file and make files for all three compilers. Audience: If you are comfortable working directly on the windows API, but the standard Windows components don't quite suit your designs, this book is for you. This is not an introductory text. The authors assume that you understand how a message loop works and that you've used lots of standard controls on lots of standard dialog boxes. This book is for experienced programmers who are ready to give their Windows applications a distinctive look.

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ISBN

978-0-87930-452-2

Publisher

Cmp Books