Create a textbox from code

[JerryWoodstock]

This may sound stupid but just fooling around at my computer with MFC,VB or c# i started wondering how windows textboxxes are made is there a way to create one from code with out using any of the windows controls?or calling the windows api? how was a textbox first created ?I Guess what im trying to ask is for example if a textbox was somthing that had never been created how whould i go about doing it?

[Flannery]

Should be in the Windows Forum, buy anyway. In VB you just drop and drag a text box to create it (the last time I used VB was some years ago when it all fitted onto a single floppy disk - oh, those were the days). With Win32 API or MFC you need to use the, well, the API. The MS guys most likley wrote most windows controls in ASM with MASM.

I have not tried, but it is my guess that making any custom windows control is hard work.

[gooch]

The MS guys most likley wrote most windows controls in ASM with MASM.

i most severely doubt that. there is no reason for doing so. windows 'controls', are simply specialized windows - the window procedure, which _you_ write, defines how the window looks, and acts. even the most 'basic' function - CreateWindow, surely would have been written in C.

I have not tried, but it is my guess that making any custom windows control is hard work.

it can be. depends on what you wish the control to do.

I Guess what im trying to ask is for example if a textbox was somthing that had never been created how whould i go about doing it?

you would do as described above, create a window via the win32 api function CreateWindow, and write your window procedure to behave like a 'text box'.

if you couldn't, for example, use the win32 api, you'd have to create the necessary infrastructure - mostly an event system, and some basic graphics operations. then just build from there.

[Invictus]

actually the windows operating system is actually written in c... well xp might be c++....

what you wanna know is how would you make a text box if you couldnt just include windows.h and use the edit or static text box classes right?