subclassing (4 products)

Menu Creator 0.3.0 (Freeware)

Menu Creator

PSS Control Pack 1 V1.0 (Shareware, $60)

This handy pack of activex controls for th Visual Basic Developer, it contains PSS Update Check, PSS System Tray Icon and PSS Safe Subclass. These controls are essential for almost any VB project you are working on. PSS Update Check will let your users know when the next release of your app is available, PSS System Tray allows you to minimise it to the system tray and PSS Safe Subclass gives you access to the messages at the heart of Windows.

PSS Safe Subclass Control 1.1 (Shareware, $20)

A simple to use ActiveX Subclassing control for Visual Basic that is debug safe in the Visual Basic IDE. Subclassing is a powerful technique that allows you to modify the normal behaviour of the controls and forms in your application. Visual Basic makes some, but not all, of the message available through class methods and the event system. The trouble is that many of these hidden messages are actually very useful. WM_GETMINMAXINFO is an excellent example of a message that should have been exposed in the VB form object. WM_GETMINMAXINFO is a message sent to a window before its resized. It allows you to set the size restrictions that should be imposed by the operating system while the window is being resized. Using the Form_Resize to restrict the form size does not look as professional as the resize event does not fire until the window has been resized. There are thousands of these messages that allow you to carry out all sorts of subtle and unsubtle tricks, this control unlocks a new world of possibilities for

Subclassing ActiveX 1.0 (Shareware, $5)

The control element accomplishes a subclassing for a window stated by its handle. The window function is the function of a window, which completely determines the behavior of the window (and thus the reaction of the window to user inputs). This window function is replaced by another function by the Subclassing component. This function then can be freely defined in the Message event of the Subclassing control element (MS Windows API programming). It is possible to either replace (StopMessage = True) or only to supplement the original window function (StopMessage = False). The latter aspect is called also Superclassing.