Developer's Guide. C++Builder 5 for Windows 2000 / 98 / 95 / by Borland

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Examples of user events are OnClick (the user clicked the mouse), OnKeyPress (the user pressed a key on the keyboard), and OnDblClick (the user double-clicked a mouse button). These events are always tied to a user’s actions. System events System events are events that the operating system fires for you. For example, the OnTimer event (the Timer component issues one of these events whenever a predefined interval has elapsed), the OnCreate event (the component is being created), the OnPaint event (a component or window needs to be redrawn), etc.

ClientRect returns a rectangle with its Top and Left properties set to zero, and its Bottom and Right properties set to the control’s Height and Width, respectively. ClientRect is equivalent to Rect(0, 0, ClientWidth, ClientHeight). • Brush determines the color and pattern used for painting the background of the control. • Handle provides access to the window handle of the control. • WindowHandle also provides access to a window handle for the control. • HelpContext provides a context number for use in calling context-sensitive online Help.

A navigation property The following property determines how users navigate among the controls in a form: • Caption contains the text string that labels a component. To underline a character in a string, include an ampersand (&) before the character. This type of character is called an accelerator key. The user can then select the control or menu item by pressing Alt while typing the underlined character. Drag-and-drop properties Two component properties affect drag-and-drop behavior: • DragMode determines how dragging starts.

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