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Microworks Custom Control Object Library.
Version 1.03.
Copyright (c) 1992-93,
Microworks (Jeff Franks)
Sydney, Australia.
Compuserve 100026,1134.
Release date: August 25, 1993.
The MWCC Object Library is a full 3D extension to
Object Windows that's compatible with TPW 1.5 and BP 7.0. It
provides you with a comprehensive set of 3-dimensional windows,
dialogs and custom controls to use in your application
development. Using the library is easy. Just derive your
application objects from the objects in the MObjects unit
and distribute your application with MWCC.DLL. You wont need to
use BWCC.DLL or CTL3D.DLL. Using the MWCC library you can
easily implement an enhanced Borland look, an enhanced
Microsoft 3D look or use the library's own custom 3D style.
Version 1.03 includes a new DLL, new object units, new
objects and two updated sample applications. MWCC.DLL now
contains part of the message box code, three new window display
procdures and two new buttons. The MWCC Object unit from
previous versions has been replaced by 3 more easily manageable
units, MObjects - the main object unit, MMsgBox - the message
box unit and MCommDlg - the common dialog unit. The source code
has been refined, removing some unecessary guff and fixing a
few minor problems. The message boxes now more flexible taking
a window handle instead of a PWindowsObject pointer. There are
four new objects - an MWCC and SFX common font dialog box, a
multiple selection list box and a 3D cbs_simple style combo
box. The MDITool sample has been updated to show you how to use
one of the new font dialogs and Winmenu has been rewritten to
show you how to create 3D ownerdraw menus. If you have used a
previous version of this library you should read the 'Changes
in Version 1.03' section in MWCC.hlp before using this version.
There are 9 zip files in MWCC03.zip. Main.zip
contains all the object library files for both TPW 1.5 and BP 7.0.
Before you start looking through the files MWCC.DLL should be
copied into your Windows system subdirectory.
Examples.zip contains the updated sample source code
for the six basic windows and dialogs. Message.zip contains
full source code for the message boxes as an example of how to
write a non-OWL application. Rtl.zip is the runtime library
source code for the three object units.
The other five zip files contain sample applications
and their source code. Their purpose is to show you how to use
some of the MWCC and SFX objects and perhaps a few new tricks.
There is a detailed commentary with each program.
Hotkey1.zip shows you how to implement a task only
hotkey and Hotkey2.zip shows you how to implement a system wide
hotkey, both using the wh_Keyboard hook. MDITool.zip shows you
a file and font common dialog box, some message boxes and the
enhanced Borland style bitmapped buttons. It also shows you how
to set up a moveable toolbar using code 'one third the size'
of the long winded Toolbar sample that came with BP 7.0.
WinMenu shows you how to set up a 3D menu bar with ownerdraw
menus and WinTask takes the ownerdraw list box one step further
and shows you how to create a graphical Windows task manager.
No source code has been supplied for MWCC.dll. You are
free to use this library in you application development
provided your program is distributed as shareware. This library
may not be used in the development of any commercial program in
any way without prior negotiation of a commercial licence.
I designed the MWCC Object library for myself because I
needed something different, something unique. I was so
impressed by the end result I decided to document the library
and share it with you. I hope you find this latest version a
useful addition to your programming tools. If you have any
problems or suggestions don't hesitate to contact me.
All the best,
Jeff...