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Re: Using API for textboxes
« Reply #2 on: Mar 16th, 2016, 9:52pm »
Richard
Thanks for your response.
I said I'd modified code from API Corner. other than the heading, I've taken all the Password info out of Alyce's code. I was too lazy to change the heading!
Your eagle eye caught my typo and that solved the problem.
The reason for my using APIs is that I'm playing around with them to try to get to know them better.
By the way, some time ago you gave me some LBB code for a grid and got rid of the thick lines between textboxes by adding 1 to the textbox width and to the textbox height. That doesn't appear to work with the API solution, but using -1 instead does.
Would it not be better to learn the Windows API by doing something which it is genuinely better at? For example rather than creating a grid of textboxes create a ListView (report style), which is superficially similar but for which there is no native equivalent.
Re: Using API for textboxes
« Reply #4 on: Mar 17th, 2016, 3:07pm »
Richard I hear what you are saying but I have my reasons.
The reason I posted the code for a grid of textboxes was because I had developed code in liberty basic (with help from your goodself) and trying to develop the same result but using the Windows API enables me to check along the way the correctness and accuracy off the code. Much the same way if you had developed some code in Pascal butt now wanted to do it in Basic. It is simply a means to an end.
If I maintain an interest in this, I shall continue to try different things, including, possibly, a ListView.
I have no doubt that I shall have to return to the forum in three weeks to come for help. I do sometimes have difficulty getting my head around things sometimes. Old age, I'm afraid.
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