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Re: [WIN] Who wants a tough question?

• Posted by Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET> Nov 19, 2000
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Levi,

I'm a little confused :)

Didn't you want a WS_DLGFRAME window that would appear in the taskbar?  By
using the classDefault() deal (which I *haven't* got the hang of yet!),
don't
you get that??  You do when you use just WS_DLGFRAME in v0.50.

And when you say "I have a WS_SYSMENU  window... how can I disable the close
button in the upper right hand  corner? ", when you use the classDefault()
deal, doesn't that just *give* you the window with the close button
disabled?
It does with v0.50.  And is this a *new* window, or an *alternative* to the
WS_DLGFRAME one?

I'm not really clear any longer as to what kind of window your are trying to
make; if you haven't already solved your problem, can you enlighten me?

Dan


----- Original Message -----
From: "LEVIATHAN" <leviathan at USWEST.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [WIN] Who wants a tough question?


> > Hi Levi, :)
> >
> > The reason I asked about what *version* of Win32Lib you were using is
> > that recent versions don't handle setting styles for windows quite
> > like it used to.  The new versions effectively "add" user selected
> > styles *to* the default, instead of replacing the default.  I think
> > Derek should change it back like it was, where *just* whatever you set
> > as style flags for a window was what you got, personally.
>
> Agreed! I was getting quite used to being able to set the styles in the
> create() statement, and I had to mess around with my code because
> I had a whole bunch of global constants together, and now I've gotta
> separate the Window create() constants from all the others :-\ But
> hey, i'm a very flexible person, so I've got a hang of the
> classDefault() deal.
>
> Okay, what happend was that I has something going like this...
>
> fmj_junk_000 = classDefaults(Window, {{CCflags,
> WS_DLGFRAME, WS_SYSMENU}})
>
> Now, with WS_DLGFRAME by itself, it gave me a WS_DLGFRAME
> window. However, I add anything else to it, and it resorted to the
> default WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW.
>
> But shortly after I sent the email off, I figured out I could put in a
> or_all()'d sequence to the sequence already there. (Which would
> be... duh... [1][1][2] where the style resides... I shoulda figured this
> out with what I've been doing forever in the create() function :)) This
> came out looking like this:
>
> fmj_junk_000 = classDefaults(Window, {{CCflags, or_all
> ({WS_DLGFRAME, WS_SYSMENU})}})
>
> I mean, this still doesn't produce the desired result, but hey! I
> learned something new! :)
>
> So, my next best question would be: I have a WS_SYSMENU
> window... how can I disable the close button in the upper right hand
> corner? (I could use removeStyle()... but I don't see a declaration in
> win32lib to add a close button, so I guess there isn't a way to
> remove it... my next best plan would be, I suppose, to capture the
> close signal off the button and point it to a blank procedure? Or send
> a disable message to the button altogether?)
>
> And as I sit here typing this, i'm trying to bang out these questions
> with another programmer, and he found CS_NOCLOSE... I'd have to
> define it in the window class before I go and create the window...
> sooo... I know I've got classDefaults here, but its doing me no good
> (Can only be used to change styles?)... So it looks like I'm gonna
> get a lil gritty with this one :)
>
> TIA,
>
> --"LEVIATHAN"