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Re: Create buttons dynamically, how?

#1839
From: Chris Marriott
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:24
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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.
>--
>Pertti Suomela
>
>Internet: ps@uta.fi
>X.400:    G=Pertti S=Suomela O=uta ADMD=fumail C=fi
>

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.
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