Knowledge_Base

OWLNext Knowledge Base

The following articles give in-depth information about various aspects of OWLNext.

• OWLNext Knowledge Base
  • Material on this wiki
    • Contributing
    • Build system
    • OWL compatibility and porting
    • Windows, dialogs and controls
    • Message handling
    • Miscellaneous
    • Old material
  • External OWLNext material
    • OWLNext Journal

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Material on this wiki

Contributing

• Contributing to the OWLNext project
• Guidelines for contributors
• Submitting bugs and feature requests
• Coding Standards
• Doxygen documentation guidelines
• Administering the OWLNext project site
• Preparing and releasing a new version

Build system

• OWLMaker user guide
• Supported compilers for OWLNext
• OWLNext library files naming convention
• OWLNext modules (extension libraries)

OWL compatibility and porting

• Upgrading from OWL
• OWL compatibility build modes
• Migrating from Borland C++ 5.02 to Visual C++
• Converting Borland C++ resource files to Visual C++
• Replacing usage of the BWCC library
• Replacing the Borland C++ Class Libraries
• Support for standard strings in OWLNext

Windows, dialogs and controls

• Dialog Data Transfer
• Safe Transfer Buffers
• User-interface design for multiple views
• Resizable Dialogs in OWLNext
• List View Control tips and tricks
• Optimization of a ListView Control - a case study
• Virtualized List View with grouping
• Optimizing Combo Box controls with large amount of data
• Expand all children of a Tree View node

Message handling

• Windows message dispatch in OWLNext
• User-defined Windows messages
• Response tables without macros

Miscellaneous

• 64-bit OWLNext
• Built-in diagnostics window
• Exceptions and OWLNext
• Unicode and OWLNext
• Multi-threading and OWLNext
• Data Execution Prevention and OWLNext
• Getting directory or filename from a full path
• Monitoring file for changes
• Packaging OWLNext application for Windows Store
• Calling 32-bit DLL from 64-bit application in C++
• Using Windows Forms from OWLNext applications
• Selecting and restoring GDI objects in TDC

Old material

Note: The following articles may have outdated and/or incorrect content, and the formatting may be off.

• [Basic_OWL_Application]
• [Basic_MDI_Application]
• [Application_and_module_objects]
• [Responding_to_Windows_Messages]
• [Responding_to_standard_messages_with_ObjectWindows]
• [Using_single_message_response_function]
• [Understanding_the_Response_Tables_in_ObjectWindows]
• [Response_table_hacking]
• [Enabling_and_disabling_commands_in_an_ObjectWindows_application]
• [Where_do_TCommandEnabler_objects_come_from?]
• [Timer_events]
• [Limiting_the_resizing_of_client_windows]
• [Document-View_and_you]
• [Adding_the_new_diagnostic_macros_to_your_code]
• [Using_the_extended_diagnostic_macros]
• [OWL_Static_Library_Sectioning]
• [Changing TUrlLink background color]

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External OWLNext material

• Overview of ObjectWindows
• Old web site
• Even older web site
• Links to external material

OWLNext Journal

The OWLNext Journal has articles on advanced use of OWLNext written by Sebastian Ledesma.

• Issue #1 - Drawing a custom frame with EvNCPaint.
• Issue #2 - Creating non-square windows with SetWindowRgn.