QuickWin Library Routines

This section contains descriptions of the Quickwin library routines, which are restricted to Windows* systems. They are listed in alphabetical order.

To access these library routines, you must specify a USE IFQWIN statement in your program.

• ABOUTBOXQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Specifies the information displayed in the message box that appears when the user selects the About command from a QuickWin application's Help menu.
• APPENDMENUQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Appends a menu item to the end of a menu and registers its callback subroutine.
• CLICKMENUQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Simulates the effect of clicking or selecting a menu command. The QuickWin application responds as though the user had clicked or selected the command.
• DELETEMENUQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Deletes a menu item from a QuickWin menu.
• FOCUSQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Sets focus to the window with the specified unit number.
• GETACTIVEQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Returns the unit number of the currently active child window.
• GETEXITQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Returns the setting for a QuickWin application's exit behavior.
• GETHWNDQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Converts a window unit number into a Windows* handle.
• GETUNITQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Returns the unit number corresponding to the specified Windows* handle.
• GETWINDOWCONFIG (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Returns the properties of the current window.
• GETWSIZEQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Returns the size and position of a window.
• INCHARQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Reads a single character input from the keyboard and returns the ASCII value of that character without any buffering.
• INITIALSETTINGS (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Initializes QuickWin.
• INQFOCUSQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Determines which window has the focus.
• INSERTMENUQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Inserts a menu item into a QuickWin menu and registers its callback routine.
• INTEGERTORGB (W*S)
  QuickWin Subroutine: Converts an RGB color value into its red, green, and blue components.
• MESSAGEBOXQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Displays a message box in a QuickWin window.
• MODIFYMENUFLAGSQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Modifies a menu item's state.
• MODIFYMENUROUTINEQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Changes a menu item's callback routine.
• MODIFYMENUSTRINGQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Changes a menu item's text string.
• PASSDIRKEYSQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Determines the behavior of direction and page keys in a QuickWin application.
• REGISTERMOUSEEVENT (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Registers the application-supplied callback routine to be called when a specified mouse event occurs in a specified window.
• RGBTOINTEGER (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Converts three integers specifying red, green, and blue color intensities into a four-byte RGB integer for use with RGB functions and subroutines.
• SETACTIVEQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Makes a child window active, but does not give it focus.
• SETEXITQQ
  QuickWin Function: Sets a QuickWin application's exit behavior.
• SETMESSAGEQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Subroutine: Changes QuickWin status messages, state messages, and dialog box messages.
• SETMOUSECURSOR (W*S)
  Quickwin Function: Sets the shape of the mouse cursor for the window in focus.
• SETWINDOWCONFIG (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Sets the properties of a child window.
• SETWINDOWMENUQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Sets a top-level menu as the menu to which a list of current child window names is appended.
• SETWSIZEQQ (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Sets the size and position of a window.
• UNREGISTERMOUSEEVENT (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Removes the callback routine registered for a specified window by an earlier call to REGISTERMOUSEEVENT.
• WAITONMOUSEEVENT (W*S)
  QuickWin Function: Waits for the specified mouse input from the user.