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Win32Lib

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at DSS.CA.GOV> Nov 18, 1997
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I just thought I'd post a progress report on Win32Lib. I hope to upload a
copy to Irv's site some time later this week, after I've incorporated
logic to handle multiple windows, and window attributes.

What's new:

   1. MENUS. I use the same techniques as Jacques.
   2. TAB KEYS. This require subclassing. Ick.
   3. NEW CONTROLS. I've added RTEXT, CTEXT and COMBOBOX.
   4. NEW EVENTS. I've added onOpen and onClose.

At this point, the library is still a "toy". There are still not enough tools
to do "real" programming, but it's moving along. However, until Robert fixes
BINDW mangling the routine id's, it won't really be useful.

The good news is that you CAN share the single callback between all the windows,
as long as the first thing you do is a test on the window handle. It's also not
that difficult to subclass the controls.

A couple of questions:

1. How are other Win32 coding projects going? I know that Jacques completed his
   Common Controls. VERY slick!

2. Anyone know of a simple way to close/minimize the console?

3. Any votes on library extensions for Win32 code? I vote for ".W" to replace
   ".E". I have been using ".EW", but I'm not too keen on that.

4. Is anyone currently working on a "real" dialog toolkit? I'm going to be addin
g
   modal windows to Win32Lib, so I probably won't be using "real" dialogs. But
   I'm curious to hear if anyone's made a go at it.


-- David Cuny
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