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Re: Create buttons dynamically, how?

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From: Pertti Suomela
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?
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Pertti Suomela

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