ABSTRACT

Control Bars In Chapter 1, we saw that common control windows were special child win­ dows provided by the Windows API to create buttons, list boxes, edit boxes, etc. Although a toolbar may look like a collection of these control windows, it is, in fact, just one long control window that paints buttons on itself. A status bar is also just a long, skinny control window painting panes within its border. Both toolbars and status bars represent a special category of com­ mon control window called a common control bar.