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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: My impressions of Actor 3.0
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.170626.26142@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 13 Jul 90 17:06:26 GMT
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Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL
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In article <18534@ttidca.TTI.COM> moss@moss.TTI.COM (Moss) writes:
>Since the Resource Toolkit will not be available for a couple of months,
>plan on learning to use the SDK tools for near term developments. (Patrick,
>how would you create a password dialog (ES_PASSWORD) or custom icons 
>within Actor?)

Actually, I've thought about these myself.  Creating the dialog is simple
enough.  We do provide the Resource Compiler for Windows and we do have a
wide array of dialog boxes that can be used to see how various dialog
styles are set up.  Agreed, this is an ugly way to create dialogs but it
does work.  We also have the dynamic dialog creation for those that want
to come up with something quickly.

As for Icons, there is a way to cheat on those.  If you set the icon
to null when the window is registered (set the wndIcon method so that it
returns a 0) your icon will become whatever is on your screen.  If you use
a bitmap editor, create a bitmap that is 64x64, and then set your window
up in such a way so that this bitmap is displayed in the window when it
is iconized you will have an icon.

Sure, it's a cludge, but it does work.

Oh, and the comment on imbedding the .IMA file in the EXE file, I like it.
It's something that I've suggested a few times but it's never quite done.
-- 
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Patrick Deupree ->	patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us