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Article #1804Re: Create buttons dynamically, how?
From: Pertti Suomela
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:08
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:08
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In article <724429478snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes: > In article <PS.92Dec14233706@kielo.uta.fi> ps@uta.fi writes: > >How can you create buttons dynamically? That is, how the application > >can decide during run-time the number and the positions of the buttons > >it wants to create? All the demonstration programs (BC++/AF/OWL) seem > >to have a fixed number of buttons. Some other button-like control > >could serve as well, as long I can create and destroy them > >dynamically. > Just use the "CreateWindow" function, exactly as you would for any > other window, using the pre-defined "BUTTON" window class. All the > standard Windows controls can be dynamically created in this way - > look in the documentation of the "CreateWindow" function to find > the names of the pre-defined classes. Thanks for everyone that have answered my question. All the replies have suggested the obvious way, to use Windows API functions. Nobody has yet described a way to create buttons dynamically using Borland's OWL functions. Is it possible? -- Pertti Suomela Internet: ps@uta.fi X.400: G=Pertti S=Suomela O=uta ADMD=fumail C=fi
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!uta!kielo.uta.fi!ps From: ps@uta.fi (Pertti Suomela) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc Subject: Re: Create buttons dynamically, how? Message-ID: <PS.92Dec23110850@pellava.uta.fi> Date: 23 Dec 92 09:08:50 GMT References: <PS.92Dec14233706@kielo.uta.fi> <724429478snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> Sender: news@uta.fi Distribution: world Organization: Tampere University, Finland Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: pellava In-reply-to: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk's message of 15 Dec 92 14:24:38 GMT