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QHTM Quick Start

We need to make some assumptions. We will assume that you are using C/C++ and that you are familiar with general Windows programming. I will also assume that you want to add QHTM to a dialog.

Adding a QHTM control to your projects requires several simple steps:

1. Add the control to the dialog

   Add a custom control to your dialog box, for the window class of the custom control you should use "QHTM_Window_Class_001". In MS Visual C++ you would do this by adding a custom control (the one with the head on it) and in the control properties you should change the edit field called "Class:" from a blank string to be "QHTM_Window_Class_001".

2. Initialise the DLL

   In the main file for your application you will need to call the QHTM initialisation function:

   QHTM_Initialize( hInstance );

   hInstance would be the instance of your program. For an MFC application this would look like:

   VERIFY( QHTM_Initialize( AfxGetInstanceHandle() ) );

   Don't forget to include the QHTM header file in any source files that use QHTM:

   #include "QHTM.H"

3. Link to the LIB

   You will need to link to the DLL. If you are using QHTMLight then you would link to QHTMLight.LIB

4. Send QHTM some HTML

   You can use the general SetWindowText (...) API to send some simple HTML to QHTM:

   SetWindowText( GetDlgItem( IDC_HTML), "<b>Some bold text</b> <font color="red">And some red text</font>" );

   For MFC programs you can make use of the control binding mechanism by adding a line in your DoDataExchange function of your dialog:

   DDX_Control( pDX, IDC_HTML, m_wndQHTM );

   Where IDC_HTML is the ID of the control and m_wndQHTM is a CQHtmWnd declared in your dialog class.