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Introduction

User Guide

Introduction

Supplied Files

On-line Documentation

Building a WiSK Program

Writing Winteracter Programs

Introduction

Basics

Elements of a Winteracter Program

Worked Example

Application Wizard

Resource Editor

Overview

Menus

Overview

Menu Types

Item Types

Item States

Help Text

Keyboard Access

Creating and Modifying Menus

Adding and Modifying Items

Tutorial : Creating a Menu

Dialogs

Overview

Dialog Types

Dialog Field Types

Keyboard Processing

Dialog Validation and FieldChanged Messages

Cut and Paste in Dialogs

Creating and Modifying Dialogs

Creating and Modifying Fields

Radio Buttons and Field Grouping

Tutorial : Creating a Dialog

Icons, Bitmaps, Cursors

Overview

Editing Images

Adding Images to Your Resource

Using Bitmaps and Icons in Dialogs

Using Cursors

Subroutine Reference

Introduction

Windows, Messages, Menus

Introduction

Group WM : Window Management

Group WM : Overview

WindowClear

WindowClose

WindowCloseChild

WindowOpen

WindowOpenChild

WindowOutStatusBar

WindowSelect

WindowSizePos

WindowStatusBarParts

WindowTitle

WindowUnitsFromPixels

WindowUnitsToPixels

Group MH : Message Handling

Group MH : Overview

WMessage

WMessageEnable

WMesssagePeek

Group MN : Menu Handling

Group MN : Overview

WMenu

WMenuFloating

WMenuGetState

WMenuSetState

WMenuSetString

Dialogs

Introduction

Group DM(1) : General Dialog Management

Group DM(1) : Overview

WDialogFieldState

WDialogHide

WDialogLoad

WDialogRangeProgressBar

WDialogSelect

WDialogSetField

WDialogShow

WDialogUnload

Group DM(2) : Assign/Retrieve Field Contents

Group DM(2) : Overview

WDialogGetCheckBox

WDialogGetMenu

WDialogGetRadioButton

WDialogGetString

WDialogPutCheckBox

WDialogPutImage

WDialogPutMenu

WDialogPutOption

WDialogPutProgressBar

WDialogPutRadioButton

WDialogPutString

Group CD : Common Dialogs

Group CD : Overview

WMessageBox

WSelectFile

High Resolution Graphics

Introduction

Group GG : General Graphics

Group GG : Overview

IGrArea

IGrAreaClear

IGrGetPixel

IGrInit

IGrSelect

IGrUnits

IGrUnitsFromPixels

IGrUnitsToPixels

Group GS : Graphics Style Selection

Group GS : Overview

IGrColourModel

IGrColourN

IGrFillPattern

IGrLineType

IGrPaletteInit

IGrPalette

IGrPlotMode

Group GD : Graphics Drawing/Movement Primitives

Group GD : Overview

IGrCircle

IGrLineTo

IGrMoveTo

IGrPoint

IGrPolygonComplex

Group GT : Graphics Text

Group GT : Overview

WGrTextFont

WGrTextLength

WGrTextOrientation

WGrTextString

WGrOFont*

WGrVFont*

General Functions

Introduction

Group IF : Information

Group IF : Overview

InfoError

InfoGraphics

InfoGrPalette

InfoGrScreen

WInfoDialog

WInfoDrawable

WInfoScreen

WInfoWindow

Group OS : Operating System Interface

Group OS : Overview

IOsExitProgram

IOsVariable

Group MI : Miscellaneous Routines

Group MI : Overview

WCursorShape

WFlushBuffer

WindowBell

WInitialise

WRGB

WRGBsplit

Group CH : Character Manipulation

Group CH : Overview

IFillString

IJustifyString

ILocateChar

ILocateString

ILowerCase

IntegerToString

IStringToInteger

IUpperCase

Group OB : Obsolete Routines

Group OB : Overview

IActualLength

IGrCharJustify

IGrCharCharLength

IGrCharOut

IGrCharSet

IGrCharSize

IGrCharSpacing

IGrGetPixelRGB

IGrPaletteRGB

IGrPause

WindowClearArea

WindowFont

WindowOutString

WindowStringLength

WInfoFont

WMenuRoot

Frequently Asked Questions

Introduction

Support

Technical Support

Support for mixed API/mixed-language calls

General

Porting INTERACTER program code to Winteracter

Running Winteracter-based programs on Windows 3.x

Corrupt Executable message at program start-up

Calling Winteracter routines from a DLL

Unresolved references to Winteracter routines

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION errors following an upgrade

Obtaining the X Windows and Motif Libraries under Linux

Displaying the Euro currency symbol

Differences between WiSK and full version of Winteracter

Resource Files

Editing resource scripts manually

.RC and .RES Files

Using other resource editors

Valid ranges for resource identifiers

Windows

Window erasure when resizing or rearranging windows

Hidden root windows

Managing multiple windows simultaneously

Maintaining window aspect ratio

Dialogs

Changing font styles

No CloseRequest messages from dialogs

No KeyDown messages from dialogs

Updating text on dialog fields

Dialog positioning

Dialog sizes

Closing drop down combo boxes under Motif

Mouse messages from dialog graphics fields

Common Dialogs

Using WSelectFile to load/save data

Multiple file extensions with WSelectFile

Positioning common dialogs

PromptOn does not work with LoadDialog in WSelectFile under

Menus

Removing menus

Replacing \a and \t in WMenuSetString calls

Graphics

Working with 24-bit colour

Line types

Printing Graphics

Keyboard

Alt-key support

How to generate the Euro currency symbol

Graphics Interfaces

Winteracter Graphics : Overview

OpenGL graphics

Lahey compatible graphics

Emulated interface

Using the Emulated Routines & Conditions of Use

Implementation Notes

Demos

General Winteracter Demos

OpenGL Demos

Errors

Error Codes

Resource File Format

Overview

Preprocessing

Menus

Menu Definition

Accelerators

Help Strings

Dialogs

Dialog Definition

Fields

Field Types

User Defined Data

Other resources

Bitmaps

Icons

Cursors

String Tables

Glossary

Glossary of terms