Plea for updating the IVF Help Documentation

[acar]

I've just spend considerable time getting the horizontal scroll bar to work (at least partially as it doesn't initialise until the user clicks an entry in the list box) for a list box control - see recent thread. There is evidence of solutions being provided for this problem going back to 2002 and possibly earlier by helpful members of the community. I would like to ask why the help documentation has not been upgraded to include a helpful tip about this and even better a code snippet that would do the trick!!!

[Steven_L_Intel1]

What you are describing is Windows behavior - we don't try to provide full details on how to program using the Win32 API or everything you can do in dialogs. There are many good books on the market for that.

[acar]

It is Windows behaviour and I do take your point but it would certainly be helpful for the fortran community since many of us are using IVF to create Windows applications.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

I appreciate that, but what you propose is a topic for a large book all by itself - and there are several good ones on the market. We are glad to document what you need to do in Fortran to gain access to the Win32 API but after that it's up to you.

[Joe_Longwell]

Steve,

Please provide the names of the good books that you can recommend.

Thanks,
Joe

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The only Fortran-focused one is the rather old "Compaq Visual Fortran: A Guide to Creating Windows Applications" by Niorman Lawrence. This is a good place to start, despite being written for CVF. A book I have had for a while which is still quite good is "Win32 API Superbible". I am sure that the applications programmers in this forum have recommendatons of their own.

And don't miss out on the free MSDN Library online.

[Neels]

I have to agree with acar, Norman Lawrence's book helps a lot but I find it always stops just short of what I want to know. And I am really not interested to learn C/C++!

I also want to be able to load the help files onto a memory device so I can read it away from Visual Studio, like it used to be in both pdf and HTML format.