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- From: stephen@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Stephen Schimpf)
- Subject: Re: Borland-izing Common Dialogs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.213630.5939@mic.ucla.edu>
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- Organization: UCLA Dept of Astronomy
- References: <TORSTEIN.92Dec21103132@itekiris.kjemi.unit.no> <724971010snz@chrism.demon.co.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:36:30 PST
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- In article <724971010snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk writes:
- >In article <TORSTEIN.92Dec21103132@itekiris.kjemi.unit.no> torstein@itekiris.kjemi.unit.no writes:
- >
- >>In article <2B31FB9F.88D4@tct.com> jeff@tct.com (Jeff Witzer) writes:
- >> I'm writing an app that uses Borland style dialog boxes and buttons. I
- >> would like to keep the interface consistant but haven't found a way to
- >> Borland-ize the <commdlg> File Save and File Open dialog boxes.
- >>
- >> Does Borland have their own version? (I couldn't find any public
- >> alternative
- >> like thier BWCCMessageBox...I hoped to find a BWCCGetOpenFileName () and
- >> BWCCGetSaveFileName ())
- >>
- >> I also tried to run Resource Workshop on my .exe but, of course, couldn't
- >> find
- >> those dialogs to modify.
- >>
- >> Should I give up and use the bland MicroSoft standard dialogs or is there
- >> hope?
- >>
- >> jeff@tct.com
- >>
- >
- >There's a VERY good solution now. Microsoft have just released a DLL called
- >"CTL3D" which gives you 3D versions of *all* the standard Windows controls,
- >as well as nice grey backgrounds to dialogs. According to its documentation,
- >these weill become standard in "a future version of Windows", and CTL3D is
- >now the "official" way to get "the 3D look" to your dialogs.
- >
- >It's VERY easy to use. You just make about 3 function calls and a "hook"
- >is installed, which automagically subclasses all the controls in your
- >dialogs, to make them 3D.
- >
- >Best of all it's FREE!!!! It's in the MSDNLIB area of CompuServe, so
- >should also be in the corresponding "mirror" directory of ftp.uu.net.
- >
- >Hope this information is useful to you,
- >
- >Merry Christmas!
- >
- >Chris
- >--
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- >| Chris Marriott | chris@chrism.demon.co.uk |
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-
- This sounds great, but I can't find it! Would somebody please let me
- know where this file is. If it is not at ftp.uu.net, could somebody
- *please* upload it to wuarchive.wustl.edu or ftp.cica.indiana.edu, or
- someplace else where those of us without Compu$erve can get it?
-
- Stephen
-
-