How to show custom controls in VS++

[mark smit]

Hello,


I was wondering if anybody has been able to show there own custom
controls inside VisualStudio while "drawing" there dialogs?



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Cheers

[Chris Boss]

The early (16 bit) Dialog Editor from Microsoft supported
Custom control DLLs with a set of predefined Functions that
the DLL must support :

ClassNameInfo
ClassNameStyle
ClassNameFlags
ClassNameDlgFn
ClassNameWndFn

I don't know if Microsoft changed this in 32 bit Dialog Editors
or not though. If they still support these functions, then you
should be able to write a custom control that will work in any
Dialog Editor compatible Visual Designers.

For more info, read the book:

Windows Custom Controls
by William Smith and Robert Ward
Published by R & D Publications, Inc.

The book is for 16 bit Windows, but much hasn't changed in 32
bit Windows. I haven't found any books of this sort for 32 bit
Windows. Few books on building custom controls exist.



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