Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RTev who wrote (33812)	11/11/1999 6:46:00 PM
From: Tom C	Respond to of 74651

RTev, Non-Microsoft developers can license and use that shared code so that they don't have to reinvent the complex and tricky logic used to control those toolbars. Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51 and up, include a toolbar control as a "common control." What does that mean? That means part of the operating system. Excel was written a long time ago and exists on several platforms (win16, win32, Mac) so it's quite possible that Excel's toolbars implemented before toolbars became part of the OS do no use the built-in versions but a toolbar control is part of the current OS. It's not an ActiveX control although there is an ActiveX control that wraps the native (i.e. part of OS) common control. The Win16 version of MFC used specific libraries to implement toolbars but this was changed in the Win32 versions to use the built-in, native common control for toolbars. Tom