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PlanetSquires Controls

Owner-drawn custom controls for FreeBASIC / AfxNova

A flicker-free drawing surface for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: you paint into an offscreen bitmap and it is copied to the screen in one blit, so nothing the user sees is ever half-drawn.

PsButton

An owner-drawn command button for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: a rounded rectangle with an optional glyph on the left, an optional caption, and an optional glyph on the right.

PsCalendar

An owner-drawn month calendar that lives inside your window — a normal child control, not a dropdown. It shows one month, or a grid of up to twelve, with a shared navigation band across the top, a selectable day, an optional min/max range, and a MonthCal-style drill-down from days to months to years.

PsChart

An owner-drawn chart control for FreeBASIC / Win32, built on the AfxNova framework.

PsCheckBox

An owner-drawn checkbox for FreeBASIC + Win32, built on AfxNova and PsBufferPaint. It draws a box glyph from a font — Segoe Fluent Icons by default — and an optional caption, with a focus ring around the pair. The box can sit on either side of the caption. You supply the colours and the fonts; the control owns the geometry and the state.

PsColorPicker

A modal colour picker popup for FreeBASIC / Win32, owner-drawn throughout, built on AfxNova and PsBufferPaint.

PsComboBox

An owner-drawn dropdown selector for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: a button showing the current choice with a stacked up/down chevron on its right, which drops a list of the alternatives where exactly one — the current one — is checkmarked.

PsDatePicker

An owner-drawn date picker: an editable date field with a calendar icon on the right, and a popup calendar the control owns. Typing a date and picking one from the calendar are two routes to the same SYSTEMTIME value.

PsHScrollBar

An owner-drawn horizontal scrollbar for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: a flat track with a flat thumb that brightens under the mouse and while it is being dragged.

PsIconPanel

An owner-drawn horizontal icon strip for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: a run of glyph cells — latching toggles, momentary command buttons, and drawn separator rules — laid out left to right in the order you supply them.

PsImage

A small support class for loading a raster image — .ico, .png, .bmp, .jpg, or an existing HBITMAP/HICON — so an owner-drawn control can show a real picture in an icon slot instead of (or as well as) a Segoe Fluent Icons glyph.

PsListTree

An owner-drawn list and tree control for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: a scrolling list of fixed-height rows that you paint yourself, with unlimited-depth tree nodes, control-drawn expand/collapse twisties, in-place label editing, collapsible group headers, single / multiple / extended selection, per-row tooltips, and an optional multi-column report mode driven by a resizable header band.

PsMenuBar

An owner-drawn menu bar for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: a horizontal strip of text items — File, Edit, View, Help — each owning a dropdown menu. Click an item and its dropdown opens underneath it; while one is open, moving the cursor onto another item switches to that item's dropdown without a second click; clicking the bar again closes it.

PsMessageBox

An owner-drawn modal message box for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: an owner-drawn caption band with a title and a close X, a body holding an optional icon and a wrapped left-justified message, and a footer holding one to three buttons.

PsNumericUpDown

An owner-drawn numeric up/down control — a spinner — for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: a rounded frame holding a − button, an editable numeric field and a + button, separated by hairline dividers.

PsOptionButton

An owner-drawn option button (radio button) for FreeBASIC + Win32, built on AfxNova and PsBufferPaint.

PsProgressBar

An owner-drawn progress bar for FreeBASIC / Win32, built on the AfxNova framework.

PsScrollPanel

A scrolling panel for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: a viewport onto a page of ordinary child controls that is taller than the space available for it, with a vertical scrollbar in a reserved strip down the right edge.

PsSelectBar

An owner-drawn select bar for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: a flat row of text labels where exactly one is current, marked by a coloured line drawn under the word.

PsSplitter

An owner-drawn splitter bar for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: a draggable divider that sits between two panes, shows a resize cursor when the mouse is over it, and tells you where the user dragged it to.

PsStatusBar

An owner-drawn status bar for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: a horizontal strip of panels along the bottom of a window, each holding a short piece of text, one of them able to stretch so the rest sit flush against the right edge.

PsTabBar

An owner-drawn tab bar for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: a horizontal strip of tabs, one of them active, each with room for an icon on the left and a close "X" on the right. Tabs can be clicked to select, closed, and dragged to reorder.

PsTextBox

A textbox control for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: a themeable frame of your own colours — border, rounded corners, outer fill — wrapped around a real RichEdit50W editor that does the typing, the selection, the clipboard and the undo.

PsToggle

An owner-drawn toggle switch for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: a rounded pill whose fill changes with state, and a circular knob that sits at the left end when the switch is OFF and the right end when it is ON.

PsToolbar

An owner-drawn command toolbar for FreeBASIC / Win32. A horizontal strip of buttons, each with an optional icon and an optional caption, plus separators, split buttons, dropdown buttons, and cells that hold a child window of your own. When the strip runs out of room the items that no longer fit move into an overflow menu behind a chevron.

PsTooltip

An owner-drawn tooltip for FreeBASIC/Win32 applications built on the AfxNova framework.

PsVScrollBar

An owner-drawn vertical scrollbar for FreeBASIC Win32 applications: a flat track with a flat thumb that brightens under the mouse and while it is being dragged.

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