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Quatre87
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 Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 12:20 am Post subject: Invisible elements |
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| Is it possible make invisible elements in a dialog? i mean, for example a text element without the silver background... |
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vdsalchemist
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| Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:28 am Post subject: |
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Quatre87,
Sorry Quatre there is no simple way to achieve this with VDS. You would have to use the Win32 API Region functions and clear the region where the text element is located. The hard part is clearing the text elements background and not its text. The API functions you should look at is CombineRgn, SetWindowRgn, GetWindowRgn, CreateRoundRectRgn, CreateRectRgn, and etc...
There is many sites with Visual Basic code that you could probably translate to the VDS 5.x @lib function.
http://msdn.microsoft.com
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Libraries/Graphics_and_GDI/Changing_Window_Shapes/Creating_Geometric_Window_Shapes/WinShap_Project_Files_zip_WinShape_frm.asp
Sorry I cannot be of more help at this time. Soon there will be a easier way to do this. For now this is a very complex issue that you are asking for a solution for which cannot be achieved with the basic commands/functions of VDS.
My only other suggestion would be to put the text onto a graphic and place the graphic on a Bitmap element. The pixel at the X = 0 Y = 0 of the bitmap will be the transparent color for the bitmap.
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DIALOG CREATE,New Dialog,-1,0,542,304,INVISIBLE
DIALOG ADD,STYLE,STYLE1,,12,B,FF8040,BLACK
REM *** Modified by Dialog Designer on 8/13/2005 - 21:31 ***
DIALOG ADD,BUTTON,BUTTON1,206,200,64,24,BUTTON1
# Put some text on the bitmap and border the text with a solid color
# Then the text will be visible but the background of the bitmap will not
DIALOG ADD,BITMAP,BITMAP1,83,163,0,0,mybitmap.bmp,,INVISIBLE
DIALOG SHOW
:EVLOOP
WAIT EVENT
%E = @event()
if %E
goto %E
end
goto evloop
:CLOSE
EXIT
:BUTTON1BUTTON
Info Do something really cool now.
goto evloop
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Aslan
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Location: Memphis, TN USA
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| As far as the text element goes you can use the TRANSPARENT style to make the text element background invisible. |
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