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jules · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 3:09 pm Post subject:

I've made a change so that if you do a DIALOG ADD,MENU,&File with no subitems, you get a FileMENU event when the menu bar item is clicked. I've modified your example and it works a treat. I use the position of a hidden dummy button at 0,0,1,1 to get the top and absolute left co-ordinates for the menu, and add a fixed offset from there. It doesn't solve the problem of hotkeys, but it does look a bit more normal.
Both these changes were trivial to do, since they basically just involved making use of code that was already in there.

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1566

Okay another update: 1.9.19.2003.

- Added ability to use icons from within exe, dll's by specifying icon index.

Remember since this dll uses the | to seperate menu items that you have to use the / character when pulling resources from dsr or a icon index:

ex: POPUP &File;;myexe.exe/3

The above would pull the icon with index 3 from the exe and display it.

Also thank you very much Jules Smile

That is extremely helpful and much better then having to using the DESIGN style which causes everything to generate a click (while this can be parsed to only capture menus it unnecessarily causes events to be generated). I really appreciate you looking out for dll developers like this.

As for getting the position of the menu's you can use this api, currently in Delphi syntax however I'm sure it can be used in vds with some conversion:

jules · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 6:08 pm Post subject:

I'll give this a try when I get a chance, but I'm packing up for the week now. I'll be interested to see how your code renders a 16x16 bitmap if there is only a 32x32 icon to work with. I spent quite a lot of time searching the Internet and trying different things to get the code that is now in VDS 5, which does a much better job of making a 16x16 image than the plain API code did.
The big problem for menu bars seems to be that if you click on one menu and then slide the pointer to the next one the popup menu doesn't close and open the next one like "real" menus do (presumably because the popup and not the menu bar has the focus.) I can't think of a workaround for that one.

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1566

I'm using the Api ExtractIconEx to get the smallicon out. If there is no such small icon it will pull out any icon available and display it.

That api is only used to pull icons with an index and not for icons within dsr, actual icon file or exe embedded binary type resource.

Then all icon are directly loaded into a TIcon and then converted with the win api, building a device context, setting bitblt and then assigning the Device Context to a TBitmap. This preserves the icon size and transparency. If I used standard TIcon > TBitmap canvas drawing the icon would always had been 32x32 thus the reason for using DC's.

Currently I'm not restricting the POPUP's icons to 16x16 since the popup can display much larger images. I think the POPUP is able to display images up to 48x48. This way you can build a Windows XP style type start menu if you so choose.

However if I ever did need to restrict size a decent way is to paint the TIcon over to a TImage canvas and set the property of STRETCH to true. You can then resize the image up or down. Not the best method since it then requires the Controls unit to be added, which adds to the size.

Back to vdspoup Smile

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Yes your right that sliding position will be a problem. It seems moreso that the script halts when you show any kind of POPUP until the POPUP disappears. I don't see anyway around this really since even mouseover can't be intercepts and processed when the script is in a halted state like this.

Hotkey's wont be such a problem, I noticed you and codescript stumbled upon a method in another thread on how to capture keystrokes for local hotkeys, I'll try to come up with something in regards to this - dsu type unit.

Rebel49 · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:19 pm Post subject:

Hi Pgware!

You said in your original release annoucement.

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I think he meant you only have to pay one fee of $20.00 USD and you can
distribute it as much as you want.

You might be getting this confused with the discussion about a CD Burning
component.

Rebel49 · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:33 pm Post subject:

Well, the cd burning discussion did get me a thinkin'
but this is how the license reads! Sounds like 1 license per
machine running it doesn"t it ?????

But I (get) confuse(d) easily sometimes.

"

2. GRANT OF LICENSE. You must enable the license for the Software by entering the registration number/keyfile as prompted by the Software. The term of the license is perpetual. You may use the Software on that number of computers for which you have purchased a separate license as indicated on the invoice or sales receipt. You may also make one copy of the Software for back-up or archival purposes. You agree to use the software solely and exclusively for the purposes of evaluation, for a period of not exceeding 28 days. On the expiry of this period, or when you have completed your evaluation (whichever comes first) you agree to either a) obtain a full license for the software, or b) cease using the software and to delete all the installed copies of the software that you have made.

"

REB

LOBO · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:55 pm Post subject:

Reb,

I do believe that is meant for devloping with the dll. If you purchase 1 license you can only use the dll on one devloping machine. I'm sure Prakash will reply to this thread and let us know but you are right the way it reads it could be very confusing.

- Mark

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1566

The dll is indeed licensed for each development machine - you must pay per machine you intend to develop with the dll.

You can deploy the dll with your programs on as many machines without any charge.

The license only pertains to development with the dll per machine. This protects the dll from being licensed once and being used in a program which allows development of a custom popup to be called and used for other programs.

Rebel49 · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:09 am Post subject:

Then I guess I did misunderstand!

Thanks for the clarification Very Happy

REB

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1566

In case you haven't noticed, I uploaded a new version yesterday to address problems with some resources not being destroyed correctly, this caused the dll to crash. This should be fixed now. Download the update - 1.9.26.2003

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1566

Another update today, this update resolves all known problems with the dll crashing on Windows 95, 98, Me machines.

You should download this update if you use this dll!!

The problem was when you passed it a file that was already opened in memory (dll, exe, etc - usually system related files) and tried to load an icon from it, the file would be closed off from access from other programs and would cause a KERNEL32.DLL error. This was fixed after numerous hours of me and Chris finding what the problem was, one line fix Wink

DOWNLOAD UPDATE HERE - VERSION 1.9.29.2003

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1566

I finally got around to converting the api into vds syntax VDS 5 or HIGHER ONLY:

Skit3000 · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 6:57 pm Post subject:

Prakash, I think I found a 'bug'. When you make a popup window like this:

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1566

Not really a bug, I probably will remove the & signs on the event trigger however. I figured it wouldn't really be that much of a deal for a user to include & as part an event label.