Re: [ros-dev] Network connection config dialog prototype

[Robert Köpferl]

I may be wrong, but isn't it possible to embed any window into anoter 
window. Maybe one must change some winstyles bevore. But the tcp/IP's 
dialog (from where it comes) window should be embeddable anywhere.
??

Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood wrote:
>    From what I've heard and seen (while playing with
> Resource Hacker), 
>  netshell.dll implements the main networking config dialogs. Somewhere 
>  the TCP/IP protocol driver provides the TCP/IP configuration dialog - I 
>  don't know where, however.
>  
>  It'd be great to somehow merge TCP/IP etc. configuration into a single 
>  Firefox-preferences-style window. Maybe a "configure" button could be to 
>  the side of each protocol? I don't know...
>  
>  
>  Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
>  
> >   Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood wrote:
> > >   Only thing is, I'm not sure if the tree-view
> > > is necessary - how many
> > >  users visit the network config dialogs more than once in a blue moon
> > >  to adjust something? I only ever delve in there if I'm testing a
> > >  router for someone and have to change my subnet. 
> >  I agree, but would it hurt them? I feel Windows is just a bit too much 
> >  like a maze in this case.
> >
> > >   Also, I think the protocol-specific dialogs are
> > > actually in separate
> > >  modules, and appear as dialogs. I could be wrong. But this would mean
> > >  it'd not be possible to do as you describe :( 
> >  In some cases standard dialogs appear to be used along with 
> >  information in the registry that defines what parameters there are, 
> >  their types and values (in particular the RealTek driver I use seems 
> >  to do this). This scheme seems to not very complex than the previous 
> >  one and should lend itself very well to displaying in custom dialogs.
> >  I don't know how common this is though and whether it's only for nic's 
> >  or also protocols for example.
> >
> >  For displaying custom property sheets there appears to be an INetCfg 
> >  interface on (recent versions of?) Windows, but I can't say I fully 
> >  understand the details of what this and would not allow you to do 
> >  (what exactly qualifies as a "network component" for example). And I 
> >  have no idea at all whether something like this is supported by ReactOS.
> >
> > >   But as a compromise - if necessary - maybe
> > > it'd be an idea to copy the
> > >  Firefox style of "preferences" dialog, with icons where the tree-view
> > >  is, but have each icon represent a different connection... 
> >  If only one level is feasible this might indeed not be such a bad idea 
> >  (although it might get a little clumsy if it contained more than a few 
> >  entries).
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