AddWindowClass Method

Description

Maps one window class name to another when nonstandard class names are used for window classes in some non-standard development environments.

Syntax

Public Sub AddWindowClass( _
    ByVal ClassName As String, _
    ByVal BaseClassName As String _
)

Parameters

ClassName

Window Class name of a class to map to a Standard Window Class name. This will allow the skin framework to skin the new class. For example, the "SysDateTimePick32" class is really just an "Edit" class, so you could call AddWindowClass to map the classes so the skin framework can skin the "SysDateTimePick32" class.

Below is a list of all non-standard Windows Class names known to the SkinFramework. These classes cannot be used as a BaseClassName, but you will not need to use the AddWindowClass method to skin them:

ComboBoxEx32
ComboLBox
SysDateTimePick32
SysListView32
ATL:ScrollBar
ThunderRT6CheckBox
ThunderCheckBox
ThunderRT6OptionButton
ThunderRT6CommandButton
ThunderCommandButton
ThunderOptionButton
ThunderRT6Frame
ThunderFrame
ThunderRT6ComboBox
ThunderComboBox
ThunderRT6ListBox
ThunderListBox
ThunderRT6HScrollBar
ThunderHScrollBar
ThunderRT6VScrollBar
ThunderVScrollBar
ThunderRT6TextBox
ThunderTextBox
SliderWndClass
Slider20WndClass
ProgressBarWndClass
ProgressBar20WndClass
TabStripWndClass
msvb_lib_header
ListViewWndClass
ListView20WndClass
TreeViewWndClass
TreeView20WndClass
StatusBarWndClass
StatusBar20WndClass
msvb_lib_toolbar
DTPicker20WndClass

BaseClassName

Standard Window Class name.

Below is a list of all standard Window Class names known to the SkinFramework. These are all values that can be used as a BaseClassName:

ComboBox
Edit
ListBox
ScrollBar
SysHeader32
msctls_statusbar32
SysTreeView32
msctls_progress32
msctls_trackbar32
SysTabControl32
MDIClient
msctls_updown32
ToolbarWindow32
Button
SysPager

Remarks

The AddWindowClass method is used to map one window class name to another when nonstandard class names are used for window classes in some non-standard development environments. For example, the standard Window Class for a button is "Button", but maybe in some environment it is named "S:Button".
So you would need to call AddWindowClass("S:Button", "Button") to map one class to another, and the skin framework can then skin the new class.

To use the AddWindowClass method, you will need to know the Window Class name of the component you wish to skin. There are several standard names like "Button" and "ListBox" (noted above), but you will need to use a tool like Microsoft Spy++ (pictured below) to determine the specific Window Class name of the component you wish to skin. In the picture below, Spy++ was used to determine the Window Class name of the "OK" button of a color chooser dialog. You would use this same technique to find the Window Class name of other components that might not have a standard Window Class name.

Spy++ Tool