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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!chrism.demon.co.uk!chris
- Subject: Re: Help needed with BC++ 3.0 Windows Programming without OWL
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- References: <115310001@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com>
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 17:32:35 +0000
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- In article <115310001@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com> defaria@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com writes:
-
- >Anyways, here are the problems that I haven't been able to resolve and really
- >need answered inorder to get my program doing anything useful.
-
- I would *strongly* suggest you get the Microsoft Press book
- "Programming Windows 3.1" by Charles Petzold. This is the "Bible" of
- Windows programming.
-
- In the mean time, your questions.....
-
- >
- > How do I write get or set text into a child window? My application
- > presents a form-like window that has child windows that are TEXT
- > input boxes. I cannot figure out how to put/get text into or out of
- > these child windows.
- >
-
- If you are referring to an edit control, you set the initial contents of the
- control by sending it a WM_SETTEXT message, and retrieve the final value
- using the WM_GETTEXT message. The functions SetWindowText and GetWindowText
- do the same thing.
-
- > How does one put text into a dialog box? I want to do a familiar "Are
- > you sure you want to delete 'thing being deleted'" type of dialog. I
- > need to construct the message string for the dialog box but I don't
- > know how to do that.
- >
-
- The easy way to do this sort of thing is with a MessageBox. Eg, say:
-
- wsprintf( szBuffer, "Do you really want to delete %s?", szThing );
- nResult = MessageBox( hWnd, szBuffer, "MyApp",
- MB_ICONQUESTION | MB_YESNO );
- if (nResult==IDYES) {
- ....
- }
-
- > How can one get an icon image or a bmp into a button?
-
- Use an "owner draw" button, and paint the bitmap onto it in response to
- a WM_DRAWITEM message.
-
- >
- > I tried making what would be called a staticTextWidget in X but it's
- > color is wrong. I want the color for a staticTextWiget to be the
- > application's background color, not a TEXT boxes' input color.
- >
-
- Process the WM_CTLCOLOR message and set whatever colour you want to use
- for the control.
-
- > How would I change the input editing semantics of these text input
- > areas to be as I specify. I like emacs type editing. I get this
- > easily in X via translation table and like to implement this in my
- > program.
- >
-
- You'd have to "subclass" the edit control. Quite a lot of work. Probably
- best to stick with the Windows user interface guidelines.
-
- >And a non window related one:
- >
- > How does one talk to a modem and dial a number like CARDFILE or
- > TERMINAL does?
- >
-
- Assuming your modem is Hayes compatible, just send the text string:
-
- "ATD 1234"
-
- through the appropriate serial port. This will make the modem dial the
- number "1234". If you want it to leave the line open for you to pick up
- the phone and speak, end the number in a ";".
-
- If you want to do this in Windows, you use the OpenComm/CloseComm/ReadComm/
- WriteComm set of functions.
-
- > Thanks much
- >
-
- Hope this information is of some use. Windows programming has a *long*
- learning curve :)
-
- Chris
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