Missing Help content - control events

[Gary Beene]

In most of the Control Add xxx Help sections, the notifications sent to the controls are listed. That's true for 16 of the controls.

However, the Help topics on the following 6 controls do not provide a convenient listing, or a partial one for that matter:

statusbar
listview
progressbar
tab
toolblar
treeview

Is there a place where the information is found, that perhaps I've missed?

I can see content in the sample directories and in the include files which gives some information - but it's not at all obvious that the content is complete.

Suggestions? It seems like a waste of time to have to ferret out the information one item/control at a time. Isn't there a complete reference somewhere that doesn't cost me hours of time?

[Dave Biggs]

Those particular controls are 'new' to PBWin90. Hopefully PB will extend their help topics - in response to requests from users?
They are part of a larger group of 'common controls' that aren't built-in to PBWin DDT, ie created by a DDT "CONTROL ADD xxx" statement.

Previously all common controls would be added to a dialog with a CONTROL ADD "custom control" statement following a call to load the common control DLL (COMCTL32.DLL) e.g.

#Include "CommCtl.inc"
..
Call InitCommonControls()
...
Control Add "msctls_statusbar32", hDlg, %STATMSCTLS_STATUSBAR32_1, "msctls_statusbar32_1", 0, 578, 800, 22
...

From PBWin help, "Common controls send %WM_NOTIFY messages (to the parent dialog's callback, not the control callback) rather than the more conventional %WM_COMMAND messages. In such cases, the meaning of the message parameters CB.WPARAM and CB.LPARAM will vary according to the type of notification message being processed".

Built-in support for these notification messages is being expanded in PBWin90 (See CB Callback functions help topic).

A useful resource to learn more about common controls is Control Spy ( http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0798/controlspy.aspx )
There are multiple examples of their use on the forums too, of course.

[Dominic Mitchell]

The best source of information for the controls in Windows is Microsoft's MSDN.

Control Library

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb773169(VS.85).aspx

General Control Information

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb773166(VS.85).aspx

Windows Controls

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb773173(VS.85).aspx

Control Spy v2.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb773165(VS.85).aspx