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From: darkness@salyko.doit.sub.org (Stefan Willmeroth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Controls in parent window
Message-ID: <2496@salyko.doit.sub.org>
Date: 18 Oct 90 20:50:00 GMT
References: <967@bjcong.bj.co.uk>
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rkt@bjcong.bj.co.uk (RAKESH TANDON) writes:

>I am trying to create an application which requires the parent window to
>have controls (editboxs, push buttons etc). Under windows 2 I created a
>dialog box with no border and made it fill the parent windows client area.
>Is there a neater way of doing this in windows 3 ?

You may create the needed controls via CreateWindow and place them
anywhere you want in your main window. A simple example:

GetClientRect(hWndMain,(LPRECT)&theRect);
WinYD=theRect.bottom;

hButton1=CreateWindow (	(LPSTR)"Button", 
			(LPSTR)"Zoom", 
			WS_CHILD|BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON,
			(int)0,
			(int)0,
			(int)40,
			(int)(WinYD/3),
			(HWND)hWndMain, 
			(HMENU)PB_ZOOM,
			(HANDLE)hInst, 
			(LPSTR)0);

ShowWindow( hButton1, SW_SHOW);
UpdateWindow(hButton1);

When the user klicks on this pushbutton, you get its ID (PB_ZOOM in the
example) through a WM_COMMAND message much like a menu selection.

Greetings
Stefan

_____________________________________________________________________________
Stefan Willmeroth is darkness@salyko.doit.sub.org, 8025 Unterhaching, Germany
Murphy says: Write a program even idiots can use,  
             and only idiots will want to use it.