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Re: So Al

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Mar 06, 2006
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don cole wrote:
> 
> Hello Al,
> 
> You with your winClass and Judith with her win32lib have written these 
> 
> wrappers to send messages to windows DLLs.
> 
> You use terms like WS_MAXIMIZE, WS_MINIMIZE, etc. to sent these mesages.
> 
> So my question is how do you know that WS_MAXIMIZE is in that DLL ?
> 
> Where could I get a list of all the things in these DLLs ?
> 
> Don Cole

Hi there Don,


Well, if you mean you want to know what the constants are you could
look in the file that has all the constants for that Lib, or if you
want to know what the possible params can be for a particular Windows
function call (like CreateWindow(...) or whatever) you would have to
go to the Microsoft library site and type in "CreateWindow" and a
whole bunch of info will come up in your browser, then you pick one
and read it.  The WS_XXXXXX prefixed constants you were talking about
are mostly shown with the CreateWindow function i think, so if you look
that up you'll find those.
Another way is to download the SDK if you have a fast connection, or
order the SDK disk if you dont.
There was an old version of SDK help available and i bet it still is
somewhere on the web.  It's only a 10 meg download yet it has 90 percent
of all the Windows functions (maybe more) listed in a sort of orderly
fashion that makes finding different things a little easier.  If you 
could get ahold of a copy that would help i think.

Another idea would be to start a Euphoria help project for Windows,
which i started a while back but never got back to update it.
It was going to be complete Windows help for programming in Euphoria
along with help with some Eu user contributed Libs, but now im thinking
it would be better to do one about Windows only.  It's in the archives.

Oh yeah, BTW, i had to do the same thing in one of my programs as you
wanted to do...keep a window hidden until the user opened it...rather
than have it pop up and then disappear (which is sort of weird) so
i used WS_DLGFRAME for the window 'style' and now the window doesnt
show until the user actually clicks something to make it appear.
Much nicer than having it flash when the program first opens.


Take care,
Al

And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!

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