• Advanced List Box-Record List Control
• Auto-PopulatingList Boxand Combo BoxControls
• Buttons
• Cascading Selection Lists
• Check Box Controls
• Chrome Browser Control
• Combo Boxes
• Comparing Drop-down Lists and Popup Dialogs
• Conditional Control Properties
• Conditionally Showing Controls
• Conditionally Sizing Controls
• Control Properties
• Controlling Record Navigation with the Invoice Toolbar
• Copying Selected Text from a Memo Control
• Creating a Cascading List
• Creating a User Defined Control
• Creating and Using a Multi-Level Popup Menu
• Creating Custom Toolbars
• Creating the Navigation Toolbar
• Defining Which Controls Have Tab Stops
• Displaying a Wait Message While a Branch Expands
• Displaying the Navigation Toolbar
• Dynamically Sizing List Box Row Height
• Edit Combo Box with Bubble Help for Choices
• HtmlHost
• Image Controls
• ImageViewer Control - Displaying Images on an Xdialog
• Line Breaks
• List Box
• ListView
• More Dialog Box Controls
• Numbering the Rows in a List Box
• Other Controls
• Placing a Browser Control on a Form
• Placing an HTML Edit Control on a Form
• Setting Choices for List and Combo Boxes
• Setting the Text and Value Properties of Items in a Choice List Array
• Simple List Box-Record List Control
• Special Formatting for Text Box Controls
• Specifying the Default Button
• Standard Controls
• Supercontrols
• Tab Controls
• The Record List Control
• Toolbars
• Tree Control
• User Defined Controls
• Using a Combo Box to Dynamically Redefine a Browse
• Using a Tabbed Object to Selectively Display Controls
• Using Embedded Owner-Draw Specifications in Controls
• Using Owner-Draw Specifications in Controls
• Using Radio Buttons to Select a Record
• Using the Microsoft Calendar Control
• Where is the Mouse?
• Working with List Boxes, Combo Boxes, Radio Buttons Etc
• Xdialog ListBoxes Dynamically Computing the Display Expression
• Xdialog Listboxes Horizontal Scrolling
• Xdialog Preview Button

 

Using Owner-Draw Specifications in Controls

Description

As we saw in the previous lesson, the term "owner-draw" refers to the fact that the developer can control certain aspects about the appearance of a button. For example, we saw how owner-draw strings allowed us to put text and a bitmap on a button.

Owner-draw strings can also be used with other control types. In the case of list boxes and tree controls, for example, you may want to associate a bitmap with each entry in the control. Alternatively, you may want to transform the way the data in the control is displayed (e.g., swapping the order of two words in each array entry).

• A Simple Owner-Draw List Box

• Understanding the Owner-Draw Operators

• Numbering the Rows in a List Box

• Transforming Data in a List Box

• Specifying Multiple Images in a List Box

• Another Approach to Specifying Multiple Images in a List Box

• Specifying the Font of the List Box

• Summary of Owner-Draw Commands

• Deriving the Font to Use Dynamically

• Dynamically Sizing List Box Row Height

• Displaying List Box Entries in Color

• Dynamic Buttons

See Also

• Learning Xdialog