Table of Contents

Working with Windows

About windows

Designing windows

Building windows

Types of windows

Main windows

Pop-up windows

Child windows

Response windows

MDI frames

About the Window painter

Building a new window

Creating a new window

Defining the window's properties

Adding controls

Adding nonvisual objects

Saving the window

Viewing your work

Previewing a window

Printing a window's definition

Writing scripts in windows

About events for windows and controls

About functions for windows and controls

About properties of windows and controls

Declaring instance variables

Examples of statements

Running a window

Using inheritance to build a window

Building two windows with similar definitions

Advantages of using inheritance

Instance variables in descendants

Control names in descendants

Working with Controls

About controls

Inserting controls in a window

Selecting controls

Defining a control's properties

Naming controls

About the default prefixes

Changing the name

Changing text

How text size is stored

Moving and resizing controls

Moving and resizing controls using the mouse

Moving and resizing controls using the keyboard

Aligning controls using the grid

Aligning controls with each other

Equalizing the space between controls

Equalizing the size of controls

Copying controls

Defining the tab order

Establishing the default tab order

Changing the window's tab order

Defining accelerator keys

Specifying accessibility of controls

Using the Visible property

Using the Enabled property

Choosing colors

Using the 3D look

Using the individual controls

CommandButton

PictureButton

CheckBox

RadioButton

StaticText

StaticHyperLink

Picture

PictureHyperLink

GroupBox

Drawing controls

SingleLineEdit and MultiLineEdit

EditMask

HScrollBar and VScrollBar

HTrackBar and VTrackBar

HProgressBar and VProgressBar

DropDownListBox

DropDownPictureListBox

ListBox

PictureListBox

ListView

TreeView

Tab

MonthCalendar

DatePicker

Animation

InkEdit and InkPicture

Understanding Inheritance

About inheritance

Creating new objects using inheritance

The inheritance hierarchy

Browsing the class hierarchy

Working with inherited objects

Using inherited scripts

Viewing inherited scripts

Extending a script

Overriding a script

Calling an ancestor script

Calling an ancestor function

Working with Menus and Toolbars

Menus and menu items

Using the Menu painter

Menu painter views

Menu styles

Building a new menu

Creating a new menu

Working with menu items

Saving the menu

Defining the appearance and behavior of menu items

Setting General properties for menu items

Setting menu style properties for contemporary menus

Setting menu item style properties

Providing toolbars

How toolbars work

Adding toolbars to a window

Selecting a toolbar style

Setting toolbar properties

Setting toolbar properties in the Window painter

Setting toolbar properties in the Application painter

Writing scripts for menu items

Menu item events

Using functions and variables

Referring to objects in your application

Using inheritance to build a menu

Using the inherited information

Inserting menu items in a descendant menu

Using menus in your applications

Adding a menu bar to a window

Displaying pop-up menus

Working with User Objects

About user objects

Class user objects

Visual user objects

Building user objects

About the User Object painter

Building a new user object

Creating a new user object

Building a custom class user object

Building a standard class user object

Building a custom visual user object

Building an external visual user object

Building a standard visual user object

Events in user objects

Saving a user object

Using inheritance to build user objects

Using the inherited information

Using user objects

Using visual user objects

Using class user objects

Using global standard class user objects

Communicating between a window and a user object

Examples of user object controls affecting a window