The ToolBox

The ToolBox allows the user to select and insert any of the above available controls onto any dialog box being created or modified.

The Controls

Each control is described below in detail including which technology provides it.

Type	Description	ObjectDCL	DCL	ObjectARX	VBA
Label	The label control is the equivalent of the Text control in DCL. This control is a non-editable text control.	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
TextButton	The text button control is the equivalent of the Button control in DCL. This control has one border style as in DCL, and only displays text.	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
GraphicButton	The graphic button control has no DCL equivalent. It is a button that allows the user to display any user defined or pre-provided graphic (Bitmaps, Icons, and Jpeg files). There are three border styles available. The first is the standard style identical to the TextButton Control's border. The second border style is the new 'Cool' button style - identical to the Internet Explorer buttons - where no border is displayed until the user moves the mouse over the control, at which time a thin border appears. The third provides no border but is useful for inserting icons that change as the mouse moves over them.	Yes	No	No	Yes1
Frame	The frame control is equivalent to the Boxed-Row and Boxed-Column controls provided in DCL. This control provides an etched border, used to visually organize controls and information.	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
TextBox	The text box control is equivalent to the Edit_box control in DCL. This control is a simple text editor and comes with several user input filter styles - some not previously available in DCL. These filter styles include: string, AutoCAD angle units, integers, AutoCAD numeric units, AutoCAD symbols, uppercase, lowercase, password, and multi line string. In the Standard and Pro versions the foreground and background colors can be changed on the fly.	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
CheckBox	The check box control is equivalent to the Toggle control in DCL. This control provides a small box that displays a check box when set.	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
OptionButton	The option button control is equivalent to the Radio_button control in DCL. This control provides a small round box that displays a bullet, when set	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
ComboBox	The combobox control is equivalent to the popup_list control in DCL. This control provides a text box with a drop down button that displays a ListBox when clicked. It been improved upon by the addition of several new styles, where only one was previously available. These styles include: AutoCAD colors, AutoCAD arrow heads, AutoCAD line weights, Fonts, Combo (where the text box is editable), Simple (where the list box appears below the editable text box), drop down (where the text box is read only), and four Plotting related styles.	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
ListBox	The list box control is equivalent to the List_box control in DCL. This control displays a list of information the user may pick from.	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
ScrollBar	The scrollbar control is equivalent to the Slider control in DCL. This control allows the user to slide a button along the bar to pick a value, or may be used to control the display of information in another control(s).	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
SliderBar	The slider bar control has no DCL Equivalent. It is a control that is similar in function to the ScrollBar control, but visually different. This control is more suited to allowing the user to visually pick a numeric value.	Yes	No	No	Yes
PictureBox	The picture box control has no DCL equivalent. It displays any picture previously loaded into the project's picture library (at design time) or load a picture file at run time. This control uses new graphics technology to load and display Bitmaps, Icons, Jpegs and Wmf files. For example it can be used to display company logos, screen captures, etc. This control also comes complete with a large compliment of drawing functions that could be used to create your own custom controls.	Yes	No	No	Yes
TabControl	The tab control has no DCL equivalent. This control displays multiple tabs to the user for selecting. As each tab is clicked a different set of controls is displayed to the user. At design time, to achieve this, separate forms are supplied for each tab. These forms are used as tab panes to display the required controls under each tab when clicked.	Yes	No	No	Yes
MonthCalendar	The calendar control has no DCL equivalent. This control displays months and days to the user in a simple calendar format, allowing them to select the exact month or day.	Yes	No	No	Yes
TreeControl	The tree control has no DCL equivalent. This control is used to efficiently organize and display large amounts of information to the user without clutter or taking up large amounts of screen real-estate. This control is the same control used in the windows file explorer that displays the file directories.	Yes	No	No	Yes
Rectangle	The rectangle control has no DCL equivalent. This is a simple control meant only to act as different kind of rectangle to visually organize controls and information.	Yes	No	No	Yes1
ProgressBar	The progress bar control has no DCL equivalent. This control is used to display a visual progress to the user indicating completion of a time consuming computational function.	Yes	No	No	Yes
SpinButton	The spin button control has no DCL equivalent. This control is used in conjunction with a TextBox control with an integer filter setting. As the user clicks on the arrows, the corresponding TextBox control's value changes.	Yes	No	No	Yes
UrlLink	The url link control has no DCL equivalent. This control is similar to a Label control except that it displays its text as a visual URL link that will launch either an email or a web page.	Yes	No	No	Yes1
AngleSlider	The angle slider control has no DCL equivalent. This control is a round slider control that displays in its center the currently selected angle in degrees.	Yes	No	Yes	No
BlockView	The block view control has no DCL equivalent. This control will display any 2D or 3D block stored in the current drawing. As an added feature this control allows the user to Orbit, Pan and Zoom the blocks that it currently displays.	Yes	No	Yes	No
SlideView	The slide view control is equivalent to the Image and Image_button controls in DCL. This control displays an image from a slide file or slide library file created in AutoCAD.	Yes	No	No	Yes2
HtmlControl	The HTML control has no DCL equivalent. This control acts as a self contained web browser placeable on a dialog box. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or better must be installed on the end user's computer for this control to work	Yes	No	No	Yes3
DwgPreview	The drawing preview control has no DCL equivalent. This control will display the Dwg thumbnail preview of a selected file.	Yes	No	No	Yes
ListView	The list view control has no DCL equivalent. The control is provided by Mircosoft's Internet Explorer and is implemented for your use. This control will list multiple information and images in four display formats.	Yes	No	Yes	No
BlockList	The block list control has no DCL equivalent. This control is based on the ListView control and will list all the blocks in the current drawing and their preview images in two display formats. Available in AutoCAD 2000 only.	Yes	No	No	Yes2
OptionList	The options list control has no DCL equivalent. This control is based on the ListBox control and will display a list of OptionButtons that are scrollable.	Yes	No	No	No
DwgList	The drawing list control has no DCL equivalent. This control is based on the ListBox control and will display a directory listing of all Dwg files and their thumbnail preview bitmaps.	Yes	No	Yes	No
Animation	The animation control is used to display .Avi files on a dialog box. This control is based on the Microsoft control and does not play sound.	Yes	No	No	Yes
Image ComboBox	The image combobox is a similar to the combo box but allows you to display small bitmaps or icons beside each item in the control.	Yes	No	No	Yes
Fully Editable Grid	The fully editable grid control allows you to add a grid control that is similar to a spread sheet and allows it's cells to be edited using 41 different means. (For example, simple text, multiline text, check boxes, layer selection, color selection, etc.)	Yes	No	No	Yes4
Splitter	The splitter control gives you the ability to divide a dialog box into 2 or more areas that can be resized by moving a horizontal or vertical bar.	Yes	No	No	Yes5
ActiveX	The ActiveX control insert button has no DCL equivalent. This button will insert almost any ActiveX control onto any dialog box. Please not some ActiveX controls are made to be propriatary so that others may not use them, these controls will not insert into ObjectDCL.	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
1 Using custom code. 2 Requires ADN membership. 3 Some methods are not available. 3 Available from third-party vendors. 3 Available from third-party ActiveX vendors.