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Chapter 5 - Control Manager

Control Manager Reference

This section describes the data structures, routines, and resources that are specific to the Control Manager.

The "Data Structures" section shows the data structures for the control record, the auxiliary control record, the pop-up menu private data record, and the control color table record. The "Control Manager Routines" section describes Control Manager routines for creating controls, drawing controls, handling mouse events in controls, changing control settings and display, determining control settings, and removing controls. The "Application-Defined Routines" section describes the control definition function, which you need to provide when defining your own controls. The "Application-Defined Routines" section also describes the action procedure, which defines an action to be performed repeatedly as long as the user holds down the mouse button while the cursor is in a control. The "Resources" section describes the control resource and the control color table resource.

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Subtopics

Data Structures

Control Manager Routines

Application-Defined Routines

Resources