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Bitmaped and transparent dialogs

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:59 pm
by Antonio Linares
Do you like them ? Do you want them for FW ?

Built with the upcoming FWH 2.7 February build:

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Re: Bitmaped and transparent dialogs

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:40 pm
by Enrico Maria Giordano
Great!

EMG

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:44 pm
by Rick Lipkin
Looks Great !!!

Rick Lipkin
SC Dept of Health, USA

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:45 pm
by James Bott
Antonio,

Did you figure out how to make the SAYs transparent without REDEFINING them all?

James

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:39 pm
by Silvio
Antonio you can create also dialogs with folder trasparent ?
I'd like see the source code here...

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:45 pm
by Antonio Linares
James,

yes. We have implemented a C function that does it automatically. No need to REDEFINE the SAYs.

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:55 pm
by James Bott
Good news, and congratulations on solving that!

James

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:21 am
by Silvio
Dear Antonio,
I hope you insert it on new release of fwh...

...and for a dialog with folders

Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:52 am
by Antonio Linares
Work in progress...

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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:57 am
by Silvio
gooooood mr guru Antonio

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:34 am
by Antonio Linares
Transparency using XP themes :)

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Thanks to Brian Hays for his great help on this!

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:18 am
by Silvio
Dear my friend Antonio,
Can I see the source code to make dialog and folder trasparent ?

Regards
Silvio

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:19 am
by Antonio Linares
Silvio,

There are many changes. FWH 2.7 February build will provide them.

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:37 am
by Silvio
Dear antonio,
I wrote you on privete email.
I hope you help me ..

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:48 am
by don lowenstein
Antonio,

This is excellent. I have been looking for this since Fivewin 1.8.

Many years ago I hired several artists to make my applications look especially "pretty". I experimented with this concept, but ran into difficulties.

One problem I had was "re-using" a dialog. I could get it to display correctly the 1st time, but, if I ::end() the dialog and save the dialog object to an array to re-call at a later time, the dialog background would be "invisible" and the Windows desktop would bleed through on subsequent ::activate() commands.

Is it possible for you to test this and let me know the result.

As always, thanks much. I really appreciate the work you have done for all of us.