                           BWCCAPI.RW
                           ==========


This file describes technical aspects of the Borland Windows
Custom Controls (BWCC) and contains information that might be
useful or of interest to the advanced resource designer. You can,
however, successfully create or modify application resources for
BWCC using the information contained in the file MANUAL.RW.


1        Defining a derivative dialog class
-------------------------------------------

To create your own dialog window class (for example, if you want
the dialog box to have its own icon), you must "derive" your
class from the BORDLG class.

To derive a class from BORDLG, do the following:

1.  Specify a window class name that starts with "bordlg". Class
    names that start with a leading underscore ("_bordlg...") and
    "bordlg" itself are reserved for use by Borland. Thus,
    "bordlg_foo" is a valid derived name, but "mybordlg" or
    "_bordlg_mine" are not.

2.  Your dialog window function should call BWCCDefDlgProc, not
    the Windows standard DefDlgProc for messages that it does not
    process.

3.  The window proc must call BWCCDefDlgProc for the following
    messages:

    WM_CTLCOLOR
    WM_NCCREATE
    WM_CREATE
    WM_NCDESTROY
    WM_SETFONT
    WM_PAINT
    WM_ERASEBKGND


2        Technical description of Borland Windows Custom Controls
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Section 3 through section 7 contains descriptions of each of the
Borland Windows Custom Controls classes. Most of the subsection
headings are self-explanatory, with the possible exception of the
following:

- "Class Name" gives the Resource Workshop name in quotation
  marks, followed by the identifier name--C define or Pascal
  constant.

- "Window styles" include "Types" and "Options." Types dictate
  the overall appearance and functionality of the control.
  Options are those available to each type of control.

- "Messages" include "Commands" and "Notifications." Commands are
  messages to a control. Notifications are a special type of
  WM_COMMAND message used by controls. The control ID of the
  button is passed in the wParam of the message, while the lParam
  contains both the notification type and the window handle of
  the control. The notification type is contained in the
  high-order word of lParam and can be extracted using the HIWORD
  macro; the window handle is contained in the low-order word of
  lParam and can be extracted using the LOWORD macro.


3        BORBTN control
-----------------------

Function:          bitmapped push buttons and "splash panels"

Class Name:        "borbtn" ( BUTTON_CLASS )


3.1      Window styles
----------------------

3.1.1    Types inherited from standard Windows controls
-------------------------------------------------------

3.1.1.1  BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON and BS_PUSHBUTTON
-------------------------------------------

These types define the two standard Windows push button types:

- BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON
- BS_PUSHBUTTON

The BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON option identifies the "default" push button.
When the user presses the Enter key in a dialog box, the default
button's ID is in the wParam of the WM_COMMAND message sent to
the button's parent window. The Windows dialog manager sends a
BN_CLICKED notification from that button to the dialog window.

There are two exceptions:

- If another button gains keyboard focus through a Tab keystroke,
  that key temporarily becomes the default button and is
  referenced in the BN_CLICKED notification.

- If keyboard focus is in an edit control for which the
  ES_WANTRETURN flag is set, the Enter key inserts a carriage
  return into the text in the edit control.


3.1.2    Types unique to BWCC
-----------------------------

3.1.2.1  BBS_BITMAP
-------------------

This type is used to display "splash panels," which are bitmaps
the user does not interact with.


3.1.3    Options inherited from standard Windows controls
---------------------------------------------------------

[none]


3.1.4    Options unique to BWCC
-------------------------------

3.1.4.1  BBS_PARENTNOTIFY
-------------------------

This option causes the control to generate the following
notification messages at run time:

- BBN_SETFOCUS
- BBN_SETFOCUSMOUSE
- BBN_GOTATAB
- BBN_GOTABTAB

These notifications are described in section 3.2.4.


3.1.4.2  BBS_OWNERDRAW
----------------------

This option causes the control to send WM_DRAWITEM to its parent 
at run time, for specialized drawing.


3.1.4.3  BBS_DLGPAINT
---------------------

The BWCC Custom Dialog Class uses this option to inform the
button that the dialog class will paint the button. This option
is for internal use only by BWCC.


3.2      Messages
-----------------

3.2.1    Commands inherited from standard Windows controls
----------------------------------------------------------

3.2.1.1  BM_SETSTYLE
--------------------

The Windows dialog manager uses this message to toggle between
the BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON and BS_PUSHBUTTON types.


3.2.1.2  BM_SETSTATE
--------------------

This message changes the "highlight" state of a button. If the
wParam of the message is nonzero, the button is highlighted
(drawn as if it were pressed).


3.2.1.3  BM_GETSTATE
--------------------

This message determines whether a button is highlighted. It
returns a nonzero value when the button is highlighted and zero
when the button is not highlighted.


3.2.2    Commands unique to BWCC
--------------------------------


3.2.2.1  BBM_SETBITS
--------------------

The application uses this message to pass a set of bitmap handles
to the button. Normally, the buttons use the button control ID to
automatically load bitmaps from the user's resources. If the
bitmaps do not exist, the button caption is drawn into a default
bitmap by using a lighter-weight version of the dialog font.

To use this message, you must first create three bitmap images of
a single button:

- the button without keyboard focus
- the button with keyboard focus, but not pressed
- the button when it is "pressed" (or highlighted)

After creating the bitmaps, you must put the handles to these
bitmaps into an array and pass a far pointer to this array in the
lParam of the BM_SETBITS message.

The following C and Pascal samples show how this is done:

C SAMPLE
--------

    HBITMAP hBits[3];
    HWND  hWndButton = GetDlgItem( hWnd, ID_FOO);


    hBits[0] = MakeNormalBitmap(...);
    hBits[1] = MakeHighlightBitmap(...);
    hBits[2] = MakeFocusBitmap(...);


    SendMessage( hWndButton, BBM_SETBITS, 0, (LONG) (LPSTR)
         hBits);

PASCAL SAMPLE
-------------

    procedure SetBitmaps(Wnd: HWnd);
    var
     Bits: array[0..2] of HBitmap;
     WndButton: HWnd;
    begin
     WndButton := GetDlgItem(Wnd, id_Foo);
     Bits[0] := MakeNormalBitmap(...);
     Bits[1] := MakeHighlightBitmap(...);
     Bits[2] := MakeFocusBitmap(...);
     SendMessage(WndButton, BBM_SETBITS, 0, @@Bits);
    end;

NOTE: If a button's bitmaps are initialized in this manner, the
application must destroy the bitmaps by calling DeleteObject
before it terminates. The application typically makes this call
in the WM_DESTROY message handler for the button's parent window.


3.2.3    Notifications inherited from standard Windows controls
---------------------------------------------------------------

3.2.3.1  BN_CLICKED
-------------------

The button sends this message when it has been "pressed" by the
user, either by clicking while the mouse pointer is within the
button window or by either of the following keyboard actions:

- The user presses the Spacebar or the Enter key when the button
  has keyboard focus.

- The user presses the button's accelerator key when keyboard
  focus is in another control.

To associate an accelerator key with a button, place an ampersand
before the ASCII value of the key in the button's text (for
example, "&Yes"). Note that case is not significant for button
accelerators.


3.2.4    Notifications unique to BWCC
-------------------------------------

The following notifications are available if you've specified the
BBS_PARENTNOTIFY style.


3.2.4.1  BBN_SETFOCUS
---------------------

The button sends this notification to its parent window when it
gains keyboard focus through an action other than a mouse click.


3.2.4.2  BBN_SETFOCUSMOUSE
--------------------------

The button sends this notification to its parent window when it
gains keyboard focus through a mouse click.


3.2.4.3  BBN_GOTATAB
--------------------

The button sends this notification to its parent window when the
user presses the <Tab> key while keyboard focus is in the button.
The parent can then intervene in the processing of the keystroke
by returning a nonzero value.


3.2.4.4  BBN_GOTABTAB
---------------------

The button sends this notification to its parent window when the
user presses Shift-Tab (back-tab) while keyboard focus is in the
button. The parent can then intervene in the processing of the
keystroke by returning a nonzero value.


3.2.4.5  WM_DRAWITEM
--------------------

If you specify the BBS_OWNERDRAW style for the button, it sends a
WM_DRAWITEM message to its parent window. The lParam of the
message contains a far pointer to a DRAWITEMSTRUCT structure.

The fields of that structure are described in the Windows SDK
documentation for this message, but with the following
enhancement:

For Windows owner-draw buttons, the itemID field of the
DRAWITEMSTRUCT structure is unused. Borland buttons use this
field to pass their type. If the button is a default push button,
this field contains the value BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON. Otherwise, it
contains the value BS_PUSHBUTTON.

The other fields and the values passed in them are

      CtlType      ODT_BUTTON

      CtlID        The control ID of the button
                        (GetWindowWord(hWnd, GWW_ID))

      itemAction   ODA_DRAWENTIRE, unless the repaint is being
                   caused by a focus change, in which case this
                   field contains ODA_FOCUS

      itemState    The combination of the following values,
                   depending on the current state of the button:

                   ODS_FOCUS if the button has keyboard focus
                   ODS_DISABLED if the button is disabled
                   ODS_SELECTED if the button is highlighted

      hwndItem     The window handle of the control

      hDC          A device context for the window, with all
                   values in the default state returned by GetDC

      rcItem       The client rectangle of the control


3.3      Button resource Id numbering scheme
--------------------------------------------

The Microsoft resource compiler does not provide user-specified
control initialization data when it parses the Windows dialog
template data structure. Because of this, Resource Workshop uses
the control ID field as a base from which to derive the resource
IDs of the bitmaps required by a button. For each bitmap button,
there are six images: three for EGA and monochrome devices, and
three for VGA and higher-resolution devices.

The bitmap resource IDs are derived from the button control using
the following formulas:

   Control ID + 1000: Normal VGA-resolution image
   Control ID + 3000: Pressed VGA-resolution image
   Control ID + 5000: Focused VGA-resolution image

   Control ID + 2000: Normal EGA-resolution image
   Control ID + 4000: Pressed EGA-resolution image
   Control ID + 6000: Focused EGA-resolution image


4        BORRADIO control
-------------------------

Function: Better-looking radio buttons

Class Name: "borradio" ( RADIO_CLASS )


4.1      Window Styles
----------------------

4.1.1    Types inherited from standard Windows controls
-------------------------------------------------------

4.1.1.1  BS_RADIOBUTTON
-----------------------

A nonautomatic radio button. The button merely informs the
application program that it has been "checked" (pressed) via the
BN_CLICKED notification. The application is responsible for
calling the CheckRadioButton function to change the button's
state and the state of the other buttons it is grouped with.


4.1.1.2  BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON
---------------------------

An "automatic" radio button. When the user selects one of these
buttons, it is automatically marked (with a circle or diamond),
and the previously selected button within the group is
deselected, without the intervention of the application program.


4.1.2    Types unique to BWCC
-----------------------------

[none]


4.1.3    Options inherited from standard Windows controls
---------------------------------------------------------

4.1.3.1  BS_LEFTTEXT
--------------------

This option causes the text associated with the button to be
displayed to the left of the button, rather than to the right of
the button.


4.1.4    Options unique to BWCC
-------------------------------


4.1.4.1  BBS_PARENTNOTIFY
-------------------------

This option causes the control to generate the following
notification messages at run time:

- BBN_SETFOCUS
- BBN_SETFOCUSMOUSE
- BBN_GOTATAB
- BBN_GOTABTAB

These notifications are described in section 3.2.4.


4.1.4.2  BBS_OWNERDRAW
----------------------

This option causes the control to send WM_DRAWITEM to its parent
at run time, for specialized drawing.


4.1.4.3  BBS_DLGPAINT
---------------------

The BWCC Custom Dialog Class uses this option to inform the
button that the dialog class will paint the button. This option
is for internal use only by BWCC.


4.2      Messages
-----------------

4.2.1    Commands inherited from standard Windows controls
----------------------------------------------------------

4.2.1.1  BM_GETCHECK
--------------------

This message causes the button to return its current "check"
state (the message names and descriptions all use check box
imagery). If it is checked (pressed), it returns a nonzero value.
Otherwise, it returns zero.


4.2.1.2  BM_SETCHECK
--------------------

This message changes the check state of a button. If the wParam
of the message is nonzero, the button is checked (filled with a
circle or a diamond).


4.2.1.3  BM_GETSTATE
--------------------

This message determines whether a button is "highlighted" (drawn
with a heavy outline around the circle or diamond). It returns a
nonzero value when the button is highlighted and zero when the
button is not highlighted.


4.2.1.4  BM_SETSTATE
--------------------

This message changes the highlight state of a button. If the
wParam of the message is nonzero, the button is highlighted.


4.2.2    Commands unique to BWCC
--------------------------------

[none]


4.2.3    Notifications inherited from standard Windows controls
---------------------------------------------------------------

4.2.3.1  BN_CLICKED
-------------------

See the description of BN_CLICKED in section 3.2.3.1 of this
file.


4.2.4    Notifications unique to BWCC
-------------------------------------

The following notifications are sent to the parent window only if
the programmer has specified the BBS_PARENTNOTIFY style.

- BBN_SETFOCUS
- BBN_SETFOCUSMOUSE
- BBN_GOTATAB
- BBN_GOTABTAB

For a description of these notifications, see section 3.2.4 of
this file.


4.2.4.1  WM_DRAWITEM
--------------------

The description of this notification is identical to that
contained in section 3.2.4.5, with the following exception:

For automatic radio buttons, the itemID field of the
DRAWITEMSTRUCT structure contains the value BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON.
Otherwise, it contains the value BS_RADIOBUTTON.


5        BORCHECK control
-------------------------

Function: Better-looking check boxes

Class Name: "borcheck" ( CHECK_CLASS )


5.1      Window Styles
----------------------

5.1.1    Types inherited from standard Windows controls
-------------------------------------------------------

5.1.1.1  BS_CHECKBOX
--------------------

A nonautomatic check box. Application program intervention is
required to change its visual state after it has been "clicked."


5.1.1.2  BS_AUTOCHECKBOX
------------------------

A check box that automatically changes its state when "clicked."


5.1.2    Types unique to BWCC
-----------------------------

[none]


5.1.3    Options inherited from standard Windows controls
---------------------------------------------------------


5.1.3.1  BS_LEFTTEXT
--------------------

This option causes the text associated with the button to be
displayed to the left of the button, rather than to the right of
the button.


5.1.4    Options unique to BWCC
-------------------------------


5.1.4.1  BBS_PARENTNOTIFY
-------------------------

This option causes the control to generate the following
notification messages at run time:

- BBN_SETFOCUS
- BBN_SETFOCUSMOUSE
- BBN_GOTATAB
- BBN_GOTABTAB


5.1.4.2  BBS_OWNERDRAW
----------------------

This option causes the control to send WM_DRAWITEM to its parent
at run time, for specialized drawing.


5.1.4.3  BBS_DLGPAINT
---------------------

The BWCC Custom Dialog Class uses this option to inform the
button that the dialog class will paint the button. This option
is for internal use only by BWCC.


5.2      Messages
-----------------

5.2.1    Commands inherited from standard Windows controls
----------------------------------------------------------

5.2.1.1  BM_GETCHECK
--------------------

This message causes the button to return its current "check"
state. If it is checked, it returns a nonzero value. Otherwise,
it returns zero.


5.2.1.2  BM_SETCHECK
--------------------

This message changes the state of a check box. If the wParam of
the message is a nonzero value, the check box is drawn with a
check mark.


5.2.1.3  BM_GETSTATE
--------------------

This message determines whether a check box is "highlighted"
(drawn with a heavy outline). It returns a nonzero value when the
check box is highlighted and zero when the check box is not
highlighted.


5.2.1.4  BM_SETSTATE
--------------------

This message changes the highlight state of a check box. If the
wParam of the message is a nonzero value, the check box is
highlighted.


5.2.2    Commands unique to BWCC
--------------------------------

[none]


5.2.3    Notifications inherited from standard Windows controls
---------------------------------------------------------------


5.2.3.1  BN_CLICKED
-------------------

See the description of BN_CLICKED in section 3.2.3.1 of this
file.


5.2.4    Notifications unique to BWCC
-------------------------------------

The following notifications are sent to the parent window only if
the programmer has specified the BBS_PARENTNOTIFY style:

- BBN_SETFOCUS
- BBN_SETFOCUSMOUSE
- BBN_GOTATAB
- BBN_GOTABTAB

For a description of these notifications, see section 3.2.4 of
this file.


5.2.4.1  WM_DRAWITEM
--------------------

The description of this notification is identical to that
contained in section 3.2.4.5, with the following exception:

For automatic check boxes, the itemID field of the DRAWITEMSTRUCT
structure contains the value BS_AUTOCHECKBOX. Otherwise, it
contains the value BS_CHECKBOX.


6        BORSHADE control
-------------------------

Function: panels and dividers

Class Name: "borshade" ( SHADE_CLASS )


6.1      Window styles
----------------------

6.1.1    Types inherited from standard Windows controls
-------------------------------------------------------

[none]


6.1.2    Types unique to BWCC
-----------------------------


6.1.2.1  BSS_GROUP
------------------

This style draws a "chiseled" gray box.


6.1.2.2  BSS_HDIP
-----------------

This style draws a horizontal dividing line that can be used to
separate sections of a dialog box.


6.1.2.3  BSS_VDIP
-----------------

This style draws a vertical dividing line that can be used to
separate sections of a dialog box.


6.1.2.4  BSS_HBUMP
------------------

This style draws a horizontal dividing line that can be used to
separate sections of a gray group shade (BSS_GROUP).


6.1.2.5  BSS_VBUMP
------------------

This style draws a vertical dividing line that can be used to
separate sections of a gray group shade (BSS_GROUP).


6.2      Messages
-----------------

[none]


7        BORDLG dialog class
----------------------------

Function: "Turbo" fast dialog box drawing

Class Name: "bordlg" ( BORDLGCLASS )

This custom dialog window class implements the "turbo painting"
of Borland custom controls by eliminating unnecessary static
control windows, keeping its own private list of controls within
a dialog box, and painting those controls itself. It also
automatically provides a patterned background on VGA and
higher-resolution displays. If you want your dialogs to have the
"Borland look," you must specify this dialog class in your dialog
box template.


7.1      Window Styles
----------------------

7.1.1    Types inherited from standard Windows controls
-------------------------------------------------------

All valid styles for a standard Windows dialog box.


7.1.2    Types unique to BWCC
-----------------------------

[none]


8        Using BWCC controls in nondialog windows
-------------------------------------------------

If you want your nondialog windows to look like the BorDlg
windows (with the steel-gray background and light gray background
for static controls), BWCC.DLL provides two functions that
replace the Windows standard "Def" window functions and that
should be called in place of them:

- For MDI child windows, call BWCCDefMDIChildProc instead of the
  Windows standard function DefMDIChildProc.

- For all other windows, call BWCCDefWindowProc instead of the
  Windows standard function DefWindowProc.

As described earlier for BWCCDefDlgProc, your window proc must
call either BWCCDefMDIChildProc or BWCCDefWindowProc for the
following messages:

- WM_CTLCOLOR
- WM_NCCREATE
- WM_CREATE
- WM_NCDESTROY
- WM_SETFONT
- WM_PAINT
- WM_ERASEBKGND

Note: BWCC does not provide a replacement function for
DefFrameProc.


9        Miscellaneous functions
--------------------------------

BWCC.DLL exports three additional functions that you might find
useful.


9.1      BWCCGetVersion
-----------------------

This function, which takes no parameters, returns the current
version of BWCC.DLL. The value it returns is defined in BWCC.H as
BWCCVERSION.


9.2      BWCCGetPattern
-----------------------

This function, which takes no parameters, returns a handle to the
brush used to paint the background of BorDlg class dialogs. Since
this brush could be a patterned brush, you must align it by
calling UnrealizeObject and SetBrushOrg before selecting it into
a device context. Do not delete this brush by calling
DeleteObject!


9.3      BWCCMessageBox
-----------------------

This function, which is call-compatible with the Windows standard
function MessageBox, displays a message box that is consistent
with the Borland dialog box style.


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