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Didn't VB use windowed controls as well? I distinctly remember everything being a ThunderSomething when looking with Spy++.
by ygra 8y ago
Didn't VB use windowed controls as well? I distinctly remember everything being a ThunderSomething when looking with Spy++.
- DaiPlusPlus 8y agoVB (1-6)’s “built-in” controls like Buttons and Checkboxes were windowless, most of the others were ActiveX controls which were windowed. This carried-over to VBA where some controls are windowless built-ins and the rest are ActiveX too.
- pjmlp 8y agoVB 1 - 4 used VBX controls implemented in C, only with VB 4 came the support for COM (aka ActiveX, aka subset from OLE 2.0).
- barrkel 8y agoButtons and check boxes weren't windowless that I recall. Generally anything that could take focus needed a hwnd. Labels, lines, pictures, those kinds of things could be windowless. And of course anything implemented in a vbx or ocx would need a window.