CIRC Sample: ActiveX Control
The CIRC sample is a simple example of an ActiveX Control.
CIRC illustrates the following:
Changing the painting behavior of an ActiveX control
Adding stock properties
Adding custom properties
Responding to mouse events
Adding custom events
Using text and fonts
Implementing ActiveX control property pages
Using simple data binding for control properties
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To get samples and instructions for installing them:
To access samples from Visual Studio
On the Help menu, click Samples.
By default, these samples are installed in drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Samples\.
- For the most recent version of this sample and a list of other samples, see Visual Studio Samples on the MSDN Web site.
Building and Running the Sample
To build and run the CIRC sample
Open the solution Circ.sln.
On the Build menu, click Build.
See Controls Samples for details on adding a control to the Toolbox, manually registering a control, and using the ActiveX Control Test Container.
Keywords
The CIRC sample demonstrates the following keywords:
AfxGetInstanceHandle; CDC::Ellipse; CDC::SelectObject; CDC::SelectStockObject; CDialog::DoModal; CString::AllocSysString; CString::GetLength; Ellipse; ExtTextOut; FillRect; GetClientRect; GetDC; GetVersion; MAKELONG; RGB; ReleaseDC; SelectObject; SetBkMode; SetTextAlign; SetTextColor
Note
Some of the samples, such as this one, have not been modified to reflect the changes in the Visual C++ wizards, libraries, and compiler, but still demonstrate how to complete your desired task.