Module all_window_styles 

Annex F - Window Styles

Constants

MDIS_ALLCHILDSTYLES

Window is a multiple document interface (MDI) client window that can have any combination of window styles

WS_BORDER

Window has a border

WS_CAPTION

Window has a title bar and uses the WS_BORDER style

WS_CHILD

Window is a child window

WS_CHILDWINDOW

Same as the WS_CHILD style

WS_CLIPCHILDREN

When drawing within the parent window, the area occupied by child windows is excluded

WS_CLIPSIBLINGS

When a child window receives a paint message and needs to be updated, this style clips all other overlapped child windows out of the child window’s update region

WS_DISABLED

Window is initially disabled

WS_DLGFRAME

Window has a double border but no title

WS_GROUP

The style designates a control (a window) as being the first control in a group of controls

WS_MAXIMIZE

This style creates a window that has a maximum size

WS_MAXIMIZEBOX

This style creates a window that has a Maximize box

WS_MINIMIZE

This style creates a window that has a minimum size

WS_MINIMIZEBOX

This style creates a window that has a Minimize box

WS_OVERLAPPED

This style creates an overlapped window

WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW

This style creates an overlapped window that has the WS_OVERLAPPED, WS_CAPTION, WS_SYSMENU, WS_THICKFRAME, WS_MINIMIZEBOX, and WS_MAXIMIZEBOX styles

WS_POPUP

This style creates a pop-up window

WS_POPUPWINDOW

This style creates a pop-up window that has the WS_POPUP, WS_BORDER, and WS_SYSMENU styles

WS_SYSMENU

This style creates a window that has a System-menu box in its title bar

BS_3STATE

Creates a check box button that can be either checked, unchecked or grayed

BS_AUTO3STATE

Same as BS_3STATE, except each time the user clicks on it the state changes to the next state in the cycle: checked, grayed, or unchecked

BS_AUTOCHECKBOX

This check box alternates between being checked and unchecked each time the user clicks it

BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON

This button highlights itself when a user clicks it and causes any other button in the same group to become unhighlighted

BS_CHECKBOX

Creates a small square that can have an “X” within it, indicating that it is selected

BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON

Causes the button to have a heavy border and is automatically pushed if the user presses the ENTER key

BS_GROUPBOX

Creates a rectangle to group other buttons

BS_LEFTTEXT

Causes text to be placed on the left side of a radio button or check box

BS_OWNERDRAW

Creates an owner-drawn button

BS_PUSHBUTTON

Creates a rounded rectangle push button

BS_RADIOBUTTON

Creates a radio button that is a small circle with text displayed to the right or left of the circle

CBS_AUTOHSCROLL

If the combo box’s edit control is completely filled with text and the user enters more text at the end of the edit control line, the existing text is automatically scrolled

CBS_DISABLENOSCROLL

A scroll bar is always shown in the combo box’s list box

CBS_DROPDOWN

Similar to the CBS_SIMPLE style, the CBS_DROPDOWN style causes the combo box’s list box to be hidden until the user presses the Arrow button located next to the combo box’s edit control

CBS_DROPDOWNLIST

Similar to the CBS_DROPDOWN style, the CBS_DROPDOWNLIST style causes the combo box’s edit control to be set to read-only

CBS_HASSTRINGS

Declares that the entries in an owner-drawn combo box are strings

CBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT

If this style is not used, the system automatically resizes the height of the combo box so that none of its items are partially displayed

CBS_OEMCONVERT

When this style is used, text that is entered into the combo box’s edit control is automatically converted from the system’s character set to the OEM character set and then back again to the system’s character set

CBS_OWNERDRAWFIXED

When this style is used, the system makes the owner of the combo box responsible for drawing its contents and the height of all of the list box’s items is the same

CBS_OWNERDRAWVARIABLE

When this style is used, the system makes the owner of the combo box responsible for drawing its contents and the height of each of the list box’s items is not the same

CBS_SIMPLE

When this style is used, the combo box’s list box is always displayed

CBS_SORT

The combo box’s list box entries are automatically sorted

ES_AUTOHSCROLL

Creates an edit control that automatically scrolls horizontally as text is entered

ES_AUTOVSCROLL

Creates an edit control that automatically scrolls vertically when there is more text than can be displayed within the control

ES_CENTER

Specifies that multiline edit controls center justify text

ES_LEFT

Specifies that the edit control left justify its text

ES_LOWERCASE

All uppercase characters entered into the edit control is displayed as lowercase

ES_MULTILINE

Causes the edit control to be a multiline control

ES_NOHIDESEL

Negates the default behavior for an edit control, which is to hide the selection when the control loses the input focus and invert the selection when the control receives the input focus

ES_OEMCONVERT

Converts text entered in the edit control from the default character set to the OEM character set and then back to the default character set

ES_PASSWORD

Hides all characters and displays them as an asterisk as they are typed into the edit control

ES_READONLY

Prevents the user from typing or editing text in the edit control

ES_RIGHT

Right aligns text in a multiline edit control

ES_UPPERCASE

Converts all characters to uppercase as they are typed into the edit control

ES_WANTRETURN

Specifies that a carriage return be inserted when the user presses the ENTER key while entering text into a multiline edit control

LBS_DISABLENOSCROLL

Shows a disabled vertical scroll bar for the list box when the box does not contain enough items to scroll

LBS_EXTENDEDSEL

Allows multiple items to be selected by using the SHIFT key and the mouse, or special key combinations

LBS_HASSTRINGS

Specifies that a list box contains items consisting of strings

LBS_MULTICOLUMN

Specifies a multicolumn list box that is scrolled horizontally

LBS_MULTIPLESEL

This list box style allows for the selection of any number of strings

LBS_NOINTEGRALHEIGHT

This list box style prevents the height of a list box from being adjusted so that partial items are not displayed

LBS_NOREDRAW

This list box style suppresses screen updates when changes are made

LBS_NOTIFY

This list box style enables the notification of the parent window when a string in the list box is clicked or double-clicked

LBS_OWNERDRAWFIXED

This list box style specifies that the application is responsible for drawing the list box and that all the items have the same height

LBS_OWNERDRAWVARIABLE

This list box style specifies that the application is responsible for drawing the list box and that the items in the list box vary in height

LBS_SORT

This list box style causes the list box strings to be sorted alphabetically

LBS_STANDARD

This list box style combines the LBS_NOTIFY and LBS_SORT list box styles with the windows styles WS_BORDER and WS_VSCROLL

LBS_USETABSTOPS

This list box style expands tab characters within its content strings

LBS_WANTKEYBOARDINPUT

This list box style indicates that the owner receives WM_VKEYTOITEM or WM_CHARTOITEM messages when the list box has input focus and the user presses a key

SBS_BOTTOMALIGN

The bottom edge of the scroll bar is aligned with the bottom edge of the rectangle given by the CreateWindow() function’s parameters

SBS_HORZ

Has a horizontal scroll bar

SBS_LEFTALIGN

The left edge of the scroll bar is aligned with the left edge of the rectangle given by the CreateWindow() function’s parameters

SBS_RIGHTALIGN

The right edge of the scroll bar is aligned with the right edge of the rectangle given by the CreateWindow() function’s parameters

SBS_SIZEBOX

Has a size box

SBS_SIZEBOXBOTTOMRIGHTALIGN

The lower-right corner of the size box is aligned with the lower-right corner of the rectangle given by the CreateWindow() function’s parameters

SBS_SIZEBOXTOPLEFTALIGN

The upper-left corner of the size box is aligned with the upper-left corner of the rectangle given by the CreateWindow() function’s parameters

SBS_TOPALIGN

The top edge of the scroll bar is aligned with the top edge of the rectangle given by the CreateWindow() parameters

SBS_VERT

Has a vertical scroll bar

SS_BLACKFRAME

Specifies a box with a frame drawn with the same color as window frames

SS_BLACKRECT

Specifies a rectangle filled with the same color as window frames

SS_CENTER

Specifies a simple rectangle and aligns the displayed text in the center

SS_GRAYFRAME

Specifies a box with a frame drawn with the same color as the desktop

SS_GRAYRECT

Specifies a rectangle filled with the color used to fill the screen background

SS_ICON

Designates an icon displayed in the dialog box

SS_LEFT

Designates a simple rectangle and left-aligns the displayed text

SS_LEFTNOWORDWRAP

Designates a simple rectangle and left-aligns the displayed text in the rectangle

SS_NOPREFIX

Prevents interpretation of any ampersand (&) characters in the control’s text as accelerator prefix characters (which are displayed with the & character removed and the next character in the string underlined)

SS_RIGHT

Designates a simple rectangle and right-aligns the displayed text in the rectangle

SS_SIMPLE

Designates a simple rectangle and displays a single line of text left-aligned in the rectangle

SS_WHITEFRAME

Designates a frame drawn in the same color as the window background

SS_WHITERECT

Designates a rectangle filled with the window background color

DS_MODALFRAME

Creates a dialog box with a modal frame

DS_NOIDLEMSG

Tells the system not to send WM_ENTERIDLE messages to the owner of the dialog box while the dialog box is displayed

DS_SYSMODAL

Creates a system modal dialog box