ErosOlmi
04-01-2008, 14:16
I discovered this morning a nice Microsoft tool I was not aware: Control Spy 2.0
You can download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=19D4294D-0531-4EC2-8B27-2E463B315F16&displaylang=en
Once installed you will find it in your Programs\Microsoft\ControlSpy directory
It comes into 2 versions: one for 9x OSs and the other for NT class OSs
With ControlSpy you will be able to interact with all standard and advanced Microsoft controls changing their look and behave on the fly and looking at events and notifications fired but each of them. It can be very useful for all wanting to deal with UI controls.
You will see that many of the thinBasic UI keywords, events, notifications follows Microsoft standards (SDK API). This will greatly add values to your time spent learning and using thinBasic because, once bored from an interpreted language or just using other advanced compilers, you will discover that not all your time has been wasted learning dedicated non-standard keywords but what you learned had some sense.
Very simple to use and nice tool.
Ciao
Eros
You can download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=19D4294D-0531-4EC2-8B27-2E463B315F16&displaylang=en
Once installed you will find it in your Programs\Microsoft\ControlSpy directory
It comes into 2 versions: one for 9x OSs and the other for NT class OSs
With ControlSpy you will be able to interact with all standard and advanced Microsoft controls changing their look and behave on the fly and looking at events and notifications fired but each of them. It can be very useful for all wanting to deal with UI controls.
You will see that many of the thinBasic UI keywords, events, notifications follows Microsoft standards (SDK API). This will greatly add values to your time spent learning and using thinBasic because, once bored from an interpreted language or just using other advanced compilers, you will discover that not all your time has been wasted learning dedicated non-standard keywords but what you learned had some sense.
Very simple to use and nice tool.
Ciao
Eros