- From: timeless <timeless@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:27:49 +0200
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils-dagsson-moskopp at dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 29.10.2008, 01:27 +0100 schrieb Kristof Zelechovski: >> What is the equivalent of the LABEL control under Microsoft Windows? > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms743463.aspx wow. a great example of buggy documentation. it claims to talk about a label "Themes", when it in fact means a label "Theme:". I've sent feedback to Microsoft, hopefully they will fix their documentation. > (Under 9000 seconds in your favorite search engine.) under 2hrs 30mins? yes, that's about right. traditionally what we think of a "label" today was implemented by using something called "static" in windows resources. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997560.aspx And the time required to find documentation on static controls was something on the order of 10mins and it took about 6 searches. the general list of controls for win32 and not some higher level toolkit is probably this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa152962.aspx I'm having a hard time deciding if people really understand when statics are used. if you look at a file properties dialog and select the "Summary" tab (this may require the volume be NTFS) then you should find (at least on wXPsp2) that clicking _Title:, _Subject:, A_uthor:, or any of the others will *not* focus the associated text area. OTOH, pressing alt-t will focus Title:'s associated input field and similarly for the other elements.
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