|
|
| C++Builder
is a powerful and fun way to handle Windows programming. As
with any tool, it requires some patience and practice to gain
familiarity with. Here you'll find some answers to
questions that I've deemed "commonly asked." I've
also included some advanced techniques and answers to some
tough questions. This page is here for fellow developers
to browse, read, cut-and-paste, and most importantly, learn from.
It's also a reference for me, since my memory is slowly
fading... Enjoy! |
| Recent
Additions |
- Check out the new home page of the Windows 2000 Graphics API Black Book (by Damon Chandler and Michael Fötsch):
|
|
|
| Inside
the VCL |
|
"Inside the VCL"
is a new series of articles that's designed to help you
use the VCL effectively. These articles are
primarily from a text that I started, but abandoned
because C++Builder isn't too popular with the
publishers. Please excuse the textbook-like tone
of these article, and I apologize in advance for any
typos.
|
| "Window
Creation Fundamentals"
[read
article] |
 |
The
TWinControl
class serves as the "glue"
between the Windows API and all
windowed VCL controls.
For this reason, in order to
understand the TWinControl
class, we'll need to first examine the
window creation process from an API
point of view.
As we did in the first article
("From Messages to Events"),
we'll make several fundamental
connections between the Windows API
and the VCL. Here we'll focus
specifically on the TWinControl
class and more specifically on the
window creation process.
[read
more...] |
|
|
|
| "From
Messages to Events Part I"
[read
article] |
 |
The
purpose of this article is to
introduce the basic constructs of a
VCL application from an API point of
view.
Mastery of the Windows API is
surely not a prerequisite here.
As such, many of the
presentations of this first article
will be preceded by a high-level
introduction of the underlying API
methods. The intent here is introduce
the inner workings of the TApplication
and TWinControl
classes from an API point of view; a
look “under the hood” if you
will.
[read
more...] |
|
|
|
| "From
Messages to Events Part II"
[read
article] |
 |
In
the previous article of this series we
discussed the trail of member
functions that a message traverses,
and now we have examined how specific
messages can be handled.
Let us now make the association
between these messages and their
corresponding VCL events.
[read
more...] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| VCL
Mini FAQ |
The VCL Mini FAQ is provided to supplement the user-supported
cppbuilder.vcl.components.using newsgroup. For convenience, it is
divided into separate sections according to the following categories:
|
Part
1: Application, SDI, and
MDI
[go!] |
|
Part 2: Common Controls
[go!] |
|
Part 3: Standard Controls
[go!] |
|
Part 4: VCL-specific Controls
[go!] |
|
Part 5: Other Resources
[go!] |
|
Download
the entire VCL Mini FAQ [here].
|
|
|
|
|
