Like while I am initializing the program, I want all my buttons/textboxes to be in a read-only state, but after I'm done they will go back to a clickable state. How can I go about performing this?
Use the EnableWindow() function to enable / disable input to a control. If for example you have a button with a handle of hButton
and an edit with a handle of hEdit
you can enable the input as follows:
EnableWindow(hButton, TRUE);
EnableWindow(hEdit, TRUE);
To disable the above controls use:
EnableWindow(hButton, FALSE);
EnableWindow(hEdit, FALSE);