| |
| COMMON CONTROLS |
| their development status |
| and their UNDOCUMENTED features and functions |
| ----------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| |
| 1. Introduction |
| --------------- |
| The information provided herein is based on the dll version 4.72 which |
| is included in MS Internet Explorer 4.01. |
| |
| All information about common controls should be collected in this document. |
| |
| All Wine programmers are encouraged to add their knowledge to this document. |
| |
| |
| 2. General Information |
| ---------------------- |
| Further information about common controls can be found in the MS Platform SDK |
| and the MS Internet Client SDK (most recent). Information from these SDK's |
| will NOT be repeated here. Only information which can NOT be found in these |
| SDK's will be collected here. Some information in the SDK's mentioned above |
| is (intentionally???) WRONG. Corrections to wrong information will be |
| collected here too. |
| |
| |
| 3. Controls |
| ----------- |
| This paragraph describes the development status of the common controls. |
| |
| |
| 3.1 Animation Control |
| --------------------- |
| Author: |
| Dummy written by Eric Kohl. <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| |
| Status: |
| Dummy control. No functionality. |
| |
| Notes: |
| Author needed!! Any volunteers?? |
| |
| |
| 3.2 Combo Box Ex Control |
| ------------------------ |
| Author: |
| Dummy written by Eric Kohl. <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| |
| Status: |
| Dummy control. No functionality. |
| |
| Notes: |
| Author needed!! Any volunteers?? |
| |
| |
| 3.3 Date and Time Picker Control |
| -------------------------------- |
| Author: |
| Dummy written by Eric Kohl. <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| |
| Status: |
| Dummy control. No functionality. |
| |
| Notes: |
| Author needed!! Any volunteers?? |
| |
| |
| 3.4 Drag List Box Control |
| ------------------------- |
| Status: |
| Nothing done at all. |
| |
| Notes: |
| Author needed!! Any volunteers?? |
| |
| |
| 3.5 Flat Scroll Bar Control |
| --------------------------- |
| Status: |
| Nothing done at all. |
| |
| Notes: |
| Author needed!! Any volunteers?? |
| |
| |
| 3.6 Header Control |
| ------------------ |
| Author: |
| Eric Kohl <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| |
| Status: |
| Almost finished. |
| Unicode notifications are not supported (WM_NOTIFYFORMAT). |
| Order array not supported. |
| |
| |
| 3.7 Hot Key Control |
| ------------------- |
| Author: |
| Dummy written by Eric Kohl. <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| |
| Status: |
| Dummy control. No functionality. |
| |
| Notes: |
| Author needed!! Any volunteers?? |
| |
| |
| 3.8 Image List (no control) |
| --------------------------- |
| Author: |
| Eric Kohl <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| |
| Status: |
| Almost finished. |
| |
| |
| 3.9 IP Address Control |
| ---------------------- |
| Author: |
| Dummy written by Eric Kohl. <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| Alex Priem <alexp@sci.kun.nl> |
| |
| Status: |
| Under construction. |
| |
| Notes: |
| Author needed!! Any volunteers?? |
| |
| |
| 3.10 List View Control |
| ---------------------- |
| Author: |
| Dummy written by Eric Kohl. <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| Ben Williams <biwillia@shrug.isdn.uiuc.edu> |
| |
| Status: |
| Under construction. |
| |
| Notes: |
| Author needed!! Any volunteers?? |
| |
| |
| 3.11 Month Calendar Control |
| --------------------------- |
| Author: |
| Dummy written by Eric Kohl. <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| |
| Status: |
| Dummy control. No functionality. |
| |
| Notes: |
| Author needed!! Any volunteers?? |
| |
| |
| 3.12 Native font control |
| ------------------------ |
| Author: |
| Dummy written by Eric Kohl. <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| |
| Status: |
| Dummy control. No functionality. |
| |
| Notes: |
| Author needed!! Any volunteers?? |
| |
| |
| 3.13 Pager Control |
| ------------------ |
| Author: |
| Dummy written by Eric Kohl. <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| |
| Status: |
| Under construction. |
| Many missing features. |
| |
| Notes: |
| Author needed!! Any volunteers?? |
| |
| |
| 3.14 Progress Bar Control |
| ------------------------- |
| Author: |
| Original implementation by Dimitrie O. Paun. |
| Fixes and improvements by Eric Kohl. |
| |
| Status: |
| Almost finished (should behave like the original). |
| |
| Notes: |
| WM_GETFONT and WM_SETFONT are not implemented yet. They seem to be |
| useless because progress bars usually don't display any textual |
| information. But if M$ implemented an undocumented flag to display |
| textual information (e.g. percentage) these messages would make sense. |
| |
| |
| 3.15 Property Sheet |
| ------------------- |
| Author: |
| Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson@linux.nu> |
| |
| Status: |
| - Development in progress. |
| - Not yet published. |
| |
| Notes: |
| Tab control must be implemented first. |
| |
| |
| 3.16 Rebar Control (Cool Bar) |
| ----------------------------- |
| Author: |
| Eric Kohl <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| |
| Status: |
| Development in progress. |
| Many bugs and missing features. |
| |
| Notes: |
| Author needed!! Any volunteers?? |
| |
| |
| 3.17 Status Bar Control |
| ----------------------- |
| Author: |
| Original implementation by Bruce Milner. |
| Fixes and improvements by Eric Kohl. |
| |
| Status: |
| Almost finished. |
| |
| Notes: |
| - Tooltip integration is almost complete. |
| |
| |
| 3.18 Tab Control |
| ---------------- |
| Author: |
| Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson@linux.nu> |
| |
| Status: |
| - Development in progress. |
| |
| |
| 3.19 Toolbar Control |
| -------------------- |
| Author: |
| Eric Kohl <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| |
| Status: |
| - Development in progress. |
| - Basic functionality is almost done. (dll version 4.0) |
| |
| Notes: |
| - Bitmaps are not correctly displayed. |
| |
| |
| 3.20 Tooltip Control |
| -------------------- |
| Author: |
| Eric Kohl <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| |
| Status: |
| - Almost finished. |
| |
| Notes: |
| - Unicode support is still missing. |
| |
| |
| 3.21 Trackbar Control |
| --------------------- |
| Author: |
| Dummy written by Eric Kohl <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| Alex Priem <alexp@sci.kun.nl> |
| |
| Status: |
| Under construction. |
| |
| |
| 3.22 Tree View Control |
| ---------------------- |
| Author: |
| Dummy written by Eric Kohl. |
| Alex Priem <alexp@sci.kun.nl> |
| |
| Status: |
| Under construction. |
| |
| |
| 3.23 Updown Control |
| ------------------- |
| Author: |
| Original implementation by Dimitrie O. Paun. |
| Some minor changes by Eric Kohl <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de>. |
| |
| Status: |
| - Unknown. |
| |
| Notes: |
| - Have a look at controls/updown.c for a list of bugs and missing |
| features. |
| |
| - The status is unknown, because I did not have a close look at this |
| control. One test-program looked quite good, but in Win95's |
| cdplayer.exe the control does not show at all. |
| |
| Any volunteers?? |
| |
| |
| 4. Additional Information |
| ------------------------- |
| |
| Has to be written... |
| |
| |
| 5. Undocumented features |
| ------------------------ |
| |
| There are quite a lot of undocumented functions like: |
| - DSA (Dynnamic Storage Array) functions. |
| - DPA (Dymnamic Pointer Array) functions. |
| - MRU ("Most Recently Used" List) functions. |
| - other unknown functions. |
| |
| Have a look at relay32/comctl32.spec. |
| |
| |
| 5.1 Dymnamic Storage Array (DSA) |
| --------------------------------- |
| The DSA functions are used to store and manage dynamic arrays of fixed size |
| memory blocks. They are used by TASKMAN.EXE, Explorer, IE4 and other |
| Programs and DLL's that are "parts of the Windows Operating System". |
| The implementation should be complete. |
| |
| Have a look at the source code to get more information. |
| |
| |
| 5.2 Dynamic Pointer Array (DPA) |
| ------------------------------------ |
| Similar to the DSA functions, but they just store pointers. They are used by |
| Explorer, IE4 and other Programs and DLL's that are "parts of the Windows |
| Operating System". The implementation should be complete. |
| |
| Have a look at the source code to get more information. |
| |
| |
| 5.3 "Most Recently Used" - List (MRU) |
| ------------------------------------- |
| The function 'COMCTL32_157()' could be called 'CreateMRUListEx32A()'. |
| Only stubs are implemented to keep Explorer from bailing out. |
| |
| No more information available at this time! |
| |
| |
| 5.4 MenuHelp |
| ------------ |
| Has to be written... |
| |
| |
| 5.5 GetEffectiveClientRect |
| -------------------------- |
| Has to be written... |
| |
| |
| 5.6 ShowHideMenuCtl |
| ------------------- |
| The official documentation provided by MS is incomplete. |
| |
| lpInfo: |
| ... |
| Both values of the first pair must be the handle to the applications main |
| menu. |
| ... |
| |
| |
| 5.7 Other undocumented functions |
| -------------------------------- |
| Several other undocumented functions are used by IE4. |
| |
| COMCTL32_11, COMCTL_385, COMCTL32_386 and COMCTL32_388. |
| Their stubs are implemented to keep IE4 from bailing out. |
| |
| |
| 6. Epilogue |
| ----------- |
| You see, much work has still to be done. If you are interested in writing |
| a control send me an e-mail. If you like to fix bugs or add some |
| functionality send an e-mail to the author of the control. |
| |
| |
| Eric Kohl <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de> |
| |
