Set Control Window Appearance

ImagXpress® as an ActiveX Object

The ImagXpress control window serves as the image viewer. (To enable multiple views of an image within a project, load multiple ImagXpress controls.)

When using ImagXpress as an ActiveX object, the stock ActiveX control properties provide the user with the ability to define the window appearance.

ImagXpress as a COM Object

When using ImagXpress as a COM object or when using the ImagXpress ActiveX control in a container that does not support the stock properties, the window appearance can be defined using ImagXpress:

Create an ImagXpress control window, by calling CreateCtlWindow. The hWnd property will now specify the window handle of the ImagXpress control.
Set window characteristics as follows:

Background color of the control (BackColor property).
Style of border of the control (BorderType property).
Whether the control window is visible (CtlVisible property).
The position of the control window (CtlLeft, CtlTop, CtlWidth, CtlHeight properties). Call the CtlMove method to move the control window to a new location.
The name of the font to use in the control window: (CtlFontName property).
The size of font to use in the control window (CtlFontSize property).
The font style to use in the control window (CtlSetFontStyle method).
The maximum and minimum dimensions of the control window: MaxHeight, MinHeight, MaxWidth and MinWidth.

3. When destroying the ImagXpress control, call DestroyCtlWindow to free up the window.