ObjectPM Control Pack

The Custom Control Pack provides a set of additional controls for your programs, some build upon existing OS/2 controls and others are completely new. All of the controls are supported by Prominare Designer and Universal Resource Editor from IBM. Each control has an implementation for ObjectPM, Borland's OWL and IBM's ICLUI class libraries as well as a C interface.

The following controls are included in the pack:

• SpreadSheet - The SpreadSheet control has of rows and columns of cells that can be used to with the appropriate background code to construct spreadsheet or database like.
• Calendar - Displays a calendar, one month at a time, allowing a user to click on a day to select it or to flip between months and years with a large number of display and manipulation options.
• DateComboBox - Combines the functionality of a standard OS/2 combo box and the Calendar control above, allowing a user to "drop-down" a calendar
• CellBox - Multiple columns and colours added to standard PM List Box.
• CellComboBox - Drop-down version of CellBox
• ControlList - Scrollable container for other controls.
• RTFViewer - Allows you to display and print Rich Text Format (RTF) files.
• Thermometer - Slider-like control that displays a numeric value as mercury in a thermometer.
• LEDGauge - Static slider-like control that displays a numeric value as either a coloured bar or as a series of individual LED colour bars
• SplitBar - Vertical or horizontal bar that you can click and drag around a window. When you release the mouse button, it notifies its owner of the move, allowing the owner to update sizes and positions of other windows.
• GIFImage - Loads a ".GIF" file and converts it to a bitmap for displaying or manipulating.
• GIFControl - Static control like the bitmap or icon static controls.
• DataField - An extension of the standard OS/2 PM single line entry control that adds the ability to do edit masks and uses a buffer to store and retrieve data in its native type.

Links

• Original ObjectPM Control Pack (archived)

Licence and availability

• Discontinued commercial software

Author

• Michael Flis
• Secant Technologies