How does a control handle having multiple instances of itself with different stats? Am I right in assuming that it has something to do with SetWindowLong and GWL_USERDATA? How does a control handler get its own title string? "Information has a tendency to be free. Which means someone will always tell you something you don't want to know."
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User control or not, a control still has to handle multiple instance of itself with possibly different statuses. Presumably the way Microsoft recommends to programmers is the way they themselves did it with their own controls.
Can you expound on how they do that with indices? How is it done? I have an example in a REALLY OLD book, but it uses a static variable because it's only done once in an instance and in a modal dialog box at that. "Information has a tendency to be free. Which means someone will always tell you something you don't want to know."
Can you expound on how they do that with indices? How is it done? I have an example in a REALLY OLD book, but it uses a static variable because it's only done once in an instance and in a modal dialog box at that. "Information has a tendency to be free. Which means someone will always tell you something you don't want to know."
There is a really good explanation to this In the Visual Basic(Microsoft) -Version 5 & 6. thread222-16995 Craig, mailto:sander@cogeco.ca
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I'm doing this in assembly and I can't make head or tails about all that VB stuff.
Okay, here's what I need to do:
I have two of these child control windows in my program (actually more, but for purposes of testing...).
At a particular time, one of them might have the mouse, or neither might have.
While the child has the mouse, it has a different background. So it somehow has to save its state (has mouse or does not have mouse) so that the Paint procedure of the control knows whether or not to change the background.
"Information has a tendency to be free. Which means someone will always tell you something you don't want to know."
Okay, here's what I need to do:
I have two of these child control windows in my program (actually more, but for purposes of testing...).
At a particular time, one of them might have the mouse, or neither might have.
While the child has the mouse, it has a different background. So it somehow has to save its state (has mouse or does not have mouse) so that the Paint procedure of the control knows whether or not to change the background.
"Information has a tendency to be free. Which means someone will always tell you something you don't want to know."
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