Is that a mode you can open?  I don't use WE much right now because it's kind 
of pointless having to restart my computer every half an hour.    I hope to 
purchase it within the week though.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Kingston [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 7:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: how to know what to reclass controls as when encountered

Just to add to what Chip said, sometimes, if you're lucky, a simple look at the 
control in the immediate mode window will do the trick. I just opened a program 
wherein I knew I had some good examples. And here's all I did.
1. Focus the custom control.
2. Open the Immediate mode window.
3. Enter the following and note the result.
Print FocusedWindow.ClassName
sfppack2Bld1503TrackbarClass
 From that I know it's just a custom track bar and reclass it as a track bar.
But this is the luck of the draw. Sometimes class names are informative or at 
least give you a potential clue or hint as to what to try.

Otherwise it's a matter of trying to figure the control out by evaluating its 
functionality. And sometimes these custom controls look virtually no different 
than their standard counterparts. So borrowing a pair of knowledgeable eyes can 
sometimes reveal their secret.

Good luck,
Tom



On 11/26/2011 7:34 PM, Chip Orange wrote:
> Hi Katherine,
>
> I'm afraid you can't reclass unless you have a pretty good idea as to 
> what it should be.
>
> If you're a scripter, you can use the various scripting tools to take 
> a look at the control's name or class (which often gives you a hint as 
> to what it's being used for), or the MSAA info log using the WE Event 
> app might tell you something.
>
> If you're not a scripter, then you are usually left to trial and error 
> (and a lot of the time, you have to set it back to "original" because 
> whatever you chose is worse than what it was doing).
>
> Sorry it's not easier than that, but if it is, I'm afraid I don't know 
> about it.
>
> Chip
>
>
>    _____
>
> From: Katherine Moss [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 7:19 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: how to know what to reclass controls as when encountered
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
>                  I was fooling around a few weeks ago with the WCF 
> service configuration editor (a tool in the Windows SDK that I will 
> need in future development endeavors), and I realized that some of the 
> controls were custom according to WE, so I made an attempt at 
> reclassing them.  I reclassed them as buttons not knowing what they 
> were actually supposed to be, and whatever I did, that seemed to make 
> them all disjunct and unreadable.  WE could read them, but it sounded 
> like Gibberish rather than English.  What is the first step when trying to 
> reclass a control in figuring out what it should be?
> Thanks guys.
>
>
>
> Katherine Moss,
>
> Administrator of the AccessCop Network, previously Raeder24.org.  
> Visit us on the web at http://raeder24.org<http://raeder24.org/>
>
>
>
>


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