Initialize my control

[Stephane Fonteyne]

Dear developers,

I don't find the WM_INITIALIZE message in FF3. How can I setup my trackbars to the defaults values when the program is loaded in memory? What FF3 function do I have used for setup my trackbars to move down all?

Thanks
Stephane

[John Montenigro]

I've been searching my SDK and other WinAPI resources, and I haven't found such a message. Are you sure it's WM_INITIALIZE and not WM_INITDIALOG???

[Stephane Fonteyne]

Hi John

Its WM_INITDIALOG

[John Montenigro]

Would it make sense to put your setup in the WM_CREATE of the form?

Or, in the special module FF_AppStart?

[Paul Squires]

Use WM_CREATE for the Form that the controls are on. WM_INITDIALOG is used when you emply the dialog functionality of Windows (which is what PB's DDT uses). FF3 uses the CreateWindowEx approach so it uses WM_CREATE.

The initial TrackBar properties can be set using FireFly's PropertyList rather than having to do it via code.