BBC BASIC Programmers' Reference

These articles are applicable to BBC BASIC for Windows only but in some cases BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 has an equivalent capability.

• Adding tooltips to a dialogue box
• Allocating item IDs automatically
• Changing a control's colours
• Changing the font of a control
• Creating a dialogue box from a resource
• Customising the Browse for Folder dialogue
• Displaying a JPEG or GIF in a picture box
• Multi-column list boxes
• Selecting multiple files
• Setting the focus in a dialogue box
• Setting the position of the File Open dialogue
• Simulating a modal dialogue box

• Copy Key functionality with GET and INKEY
• Creating a keyboard accelerator table from a resource
• Disabling 'sticky key' action of Shift
• Effect of GET and INPUT on event handling
• Faking keyboard input
• Finding which window has input focus
• Getting the User Idle time
• Inserting characters into the keyboard buffer
• Responding to a hot key

• Allocating item IDs automatically
• Creating a menu from a resource
• Detecting when a menu is open
• Effect of menu bar on window size
• Right-click Context Menu

• Adding tooltips to a dialogue box
• Adding tooltips to the status bar
• Automating mouse actions
• Changing the mouse speed
• Finding which window has input focus
• Getting the User Idle time
• Opening a file by dropping or clicking
• Receiving dropped files
• Responding to mouse double-clicks
• Selecting and copying using the mouse
• Swapping the mouse buttons
• Tooltips on the main output window
• Using non-standard mouse pointers

• Capturing the contents of a window
• Changing the MDI background colour
• Controlling the Windows taskbar
• Counting the characters in a Unicode string
• Creating a shortcut
• Direct screen memory access
• Disabling the close button
• Displaying a tooltip on demand
• Hiding a window from a screenshot
• Large fonts and the text cursor
• Limiting the size of a window
• Non-rectangular windows
• Outputting text with word-wrap
• Scrolling over a large canvas
• Selecting a font by pixel height
• Setting the Desktop wallpaper
• Supporting different DPI values
• Switching back from full-screen
• Tooltips on the main output window
• Using the entire desktop area
• Using transparent windows
• Writing to VDU variables

These articles are applicable to BBC BASIC for Windows only but in some cases BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 has an equivalent capability.

• Adding an up-down control to the main window
• Adding tooltips to the status bar
• Changing a control's colours
• Changing the font of a control
• Changing the step size of an up-down control
• Creating an animation control
• Creating a custom graphics control
• Creating a rebar control
• Creating a tab control
• Displaying a JPEG or GIF in a picture box
• Displaying an icon on a pushbutton
• Example property sheet
• Finding which items are selected in a List View
• Hyperlinks in text boxes
• List View with tooltips
• List View with header tooltips
• Marquee Style Progress Bar (Win XP and above)
• Moving the cursor in an edit control
• Multi-column list boxes
• Scrollable list boxes
• Scrolling a list box
• Setting an edit box cue banner
• Simple list box
• The extended combobox
• Using an ATL container control
• Using a pager control
• Using the Date and Time Picker
• Using Rich Edit controls