CIRC Sample: Demonstrates Using Property Pages
The CIRC sample shows how to use ATL to make a simple ActiveX control. The sample creates a control that draws a circle and demonstrates property pages, control painting, use of color and caption properties, Click and KeyPress events, and a Color property page.
The CIRC attributes sample is the attributed version of this sample.
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Building and Running the Sample
To build and run this sample
Open the solution file circ.sln.
From the Build menu, click Build Solution.
Insert the control into a control container like ActiveX Control Test Container and test its properties and events. For details on accessing Test Container and using it to test a control, see Testing Properties and Events with Test Container.
Keywords
This sample uses the following keywords:
AtlCreateTargetDC; ATLTRACE; BEGIN_COM_MAP; BEGIN_CONNECTION_POINT_MAP; BEGIN_MSG_MAP; BEGIN_OBJECT_MAP; BEGIN_PROPERTY_MAP; CCircPropertyPageDlg ; CComCoClass; CComControl; CComControl::SetDirty; CComObjectRoot; CDialogImpl; CHAIN_MSG_MAP; COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY; COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY_IID; COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY_IMPL; COMMAND_ID_HANDLER; CONNECTION_POINT_ENTRY; CProxy_CircEvents; CreateEllipticRgn; CreatePen; CreateSolidBrush; CStockPropImpl; DECLARE_GET_CONTROLLING_UNKNOWN; DECLARE_REGISTRY_RESOURCEID; Ellipse; END_COM_MAP; END_CONNECTION_POINT_MAP; END_MSG_MAP; END_OBJECT_MAP; END_PROPERTY_MAP; GetClientRect; GetDialogBaseUnits; GetStockObject; GetTextMetrics; IConnectionPointContainerImpl; IConnectionPointImpl; IDataObjectImpl; IOleControlImpl; IOleInPlaceActiveObjectImpl; IOleInPlaceObjectWindowlessImpl; IOleLinkImpl; IOleObjectImpl; IOleObjectImpl::DoVerb; IPerPropertyBrowsingImpl; IPersistPropertyBagImpl; IPersistStorageImpl; IPersistStreamInitImpl; IPropertyNotifySinkCP; IPropertyPageImpl; IPropertyPageImpl::SetObjects; IProvideClassInfo2Impl; IQuickActivateImpl; IQuickActivateImpl::QuickActivate; IRunnableObjectImpl; ISpecifyPropertyPagesImpl; IViewObjectExImpl; MESSAGE_HANDLER; OBJECT_ENTRY; OleTranslateColor; PROP_ENTRY; SelectObject; SendDlgItemMessage; SetBkMode; SetTextColor; SetWindowRgn; USES_CONVERSION