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Chapter 4 - Window Manager / Window Manager Reference

Window Manager Routines

Creating Windows

You can create windows in two ways:

• from a window resource (a resource of type 'WIND'), with the GetNewCWindow and GetNewWindow functions
• from a collection of window characteristics passed as parameters to the NewCWindow and NewWindow functions

Creating windows from resources allows you to localize your application for different languages and to change the characteristics of your windows during application development by changing only the window resources.

All four functions, GetNewCWindow, GetNewWindow, NewCWindow, and NewWindow, can allocate space in your application's heap for the new window's window record. For more control over memory use, you can allocate the space yourself and pass a pointer when creating a window. In either case, the Window Manager fills in the data structure and returns a pointer to it.

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Subtopics

GetNewCWindow

GetNewWindow

NewCWindow

NewWindow