Windows Widgets

[paul]

I have just a few questions about widgets in windows.

1: Are they stored in a dll or drawn inside the program?

2: Which dll file(s) are they stored in?

[devin]

Under standard Win32 C programming they are probably stored in the DLL's "user32.dll", "gdi.dll" and "gdi32.dll" which most, if not all, Windows programs link with.

However, to draw widgets (buttons, scroll bars, etc) you make calls to CreateWindow();

Under MFC its different since each widget is wrapped up in classes with names like CScrollBar, etc.

You can also create widgets on a dialog window using a resource editor and then make a call to ShowWindow();

More advanced widgets (technically they are called "controls" on Windows) are also in "comctrl32.dll" (common controls)

Hope that helped.

[paul]

Would it be possible to change the sources of wine so that it used GTK/QT to render the widgets?

[devin]

I'm sure its possible just difficult. The wine code base is huge and draws widgets fine. Wine really needs more help in getting stuff supported.

[paul]

I would help, but I dont have a clue how most of it works. I like to stick to simple programs.