Window Styles and Mouse Input

Hello.

For question 1 try doing a bitwise 'OR' combination of:

WS_OVERLAPPED and WS_MINIMIZEBOX in CreateWindow() as the third argument.

If I get time I'll try to address question 2 soon.

EDIT: looking over the second part, I'm a bit confused as to what you are trying to accomplish. Your code is trapping the mousemove message but you seem to be asking about detecting mouse clicks. Perhaps I'm not understanding you correctly.

1. Dont create the window using thw WS_THICKFRAME or WS_SIZEBOX styles to disallow resizing the window. To disable the maximize box dont specify the WS_MAXIMIZEBOX style.

For the mouse thing...
That code only detects the click if the mouse is moving.. if the mouse is still... it doesnt detect it.

And I used

WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW

I tried WS_OVERLAP | WM_MINIMIZEBOX but there were no buttons there at all.

Quote:

Original post by glVertex3f I tried WS_OVERLAP | WM_MINIMIZEBOX but there were no buttons there at all.

Hmm, looking at some of my recent code, when I specified WS_SYSMENU in addition to the other two, it worked fine. Try that, and if I find something else I'll post again.

Problem one solved :-)

edit: Found out about the mouse thing...

case WM_LBUTTONDOWN:
blah
break;

Thank you!

WM_MOUSEMOVE will only fire when there are actual mouse movements, and should have nothing to do with clicks. You can however, find out if a mouse button was pressed when the WM_MOUSEMOVE event was fired because it will have been passed into wParam.

If you wanted to find out if a mouse button is pressed, for instance the left mouse button, then trap this event:

WM_LBUTTONDOWN

lParam will contain the x and y positions of the pointer when the event was fired if you need to know this. If you have further questions feel free to ask.

EDIT: Whoops, it seems you realized it already.

Yup :-)

I am extremely new to the whol Windows Programming thing. I started about one month ago when I started learning OpenGL.

Anyway this map editor should be neat.. I just implemented saving and loading the map file.

This should be a nice tool for rpgs/side scrollers!

EDIT:
Any ideas where I could find a good tutorial or examples of the "open" dialog box and some other thigs (Like little floating dialog boxes that let you choose tools/textures)

http://winprog.org/tutorial/