OWL HOW Contents

Overview

• Welcome
• About OWL HOW
• What's New at OWL HOW
• Contribute to OWL HOW
  • Contribution Guidelines
  • Articles OWL HOW Needs
• Links

Application

• Letting Only One Instance Run
• Activating the First Instance with the Command Line

Controls

• Enabling the Horizontal Scroll Bar in TListBox
• Showing and Hiding Controls
• Responding To Dynamically Created Controls And Menuitems

Dialogs

• Changing the Color of Controls in Dialogs
• Adding Context Sensitive Help to Dialogs
• Adding Multiselection to TFileOpenDialog
• Stopping ESC and Return From Closing a Dialog
• Bitmaps in Dialogs with StaticBitmap
• Centring a Dialog on the Screen
• Using Tooltips In Dialogs
• Painting On A Dialog
• Adding a Progress Bar Dialog
• Setting a Dialog's Icon

Miscellaneous

• Fixing Rescan Problems
• Getting the Size of the Screen
• Books For OWL Programmers
• GDI Mapping Modes Explained
• Calling 32-bit Code From 16-bit Apps
• Using Persistent Streams With Doc/View
• Creating a BDE 4.0 installation using InstallShield 5.0 Professional

Using...

• TDockableControlBar
• TGauge
• TListWindow
• TShellItem
• TSplashWindow

Windows

• Getting the Correct Icon on the Title Bar
• Setting the Cursor
• Forcing a Window to Repaint
• Limiting the Size of a Window
• Adding a Context Menu to a Window
• Tiling a Window with a Bitmap

Tutorial

• Prerequisites
• Step 1 - A Simple Application
• Step 2 - Menus and Event Handling
• Step 3 - Painting the Window
• Step 4 - File Handling and Persistence

Code Repository

• Bitmap Menu
• Editable Listbox
• IE3 Style Button Gadgets
• Windows NT Service
• OWL 6.0 Samples
• Spin-Button for Doubles
• Tip Of The Day Dialog
• Status Dialog
• Graph Window
• Command Enablers in a Dialog