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ControlStyle<<csAcceptsControls

Started by MButchers Jan 16, 2001 at 6:34 AM 6 replies 650+ views
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MButchers
MButchers
Hi there, I am currently writing a GUI system with C++Builder and openGL and have it working reasonably well. However my controls descend from TGraphicsControl in order not to paint over the opengl screen. The problem i am having is that i cannot create nested controls ie controls within controls at design time even though i am setting the control style to allow control insertion. Is there a) A way to enable this in decendants of TGraphicsControl or b) A way to stop TCustomControls from painting to the screen (i have tried overriding Paint and PaintWindow) but these seem to have no effect i have also tried setting the canvas brush to style = bsClear and also controlstyle>>csOpaque but with no effect. The only other possible thing I can think of is to Lock the canvas of the GUI form. Many thanks Mark.
chewy
chewy
Do you have to have the control on the same form?

if not what I do is spawn another form that has my controls on and control the openGl form from there.

Also with this method if you have Builder 5 you can create frames so that there on the same form.
MButchers
MButchers
What i have is a component called GUIForm which
holds my controls this has a show and hide
method which when called the controls are added
or removed from the main gui viewport and are rendered.
in this way they act as usual controls but are rendered
with opengl.
This way they are designed off of the
main form and all code is associated in there
own forms but gets triggered when they are used
on the main form.

chewy
chewy
OMG man that sounds very cool I can''t wait to see these things! Unfortunately I haven''t done enough component creation to help you with your question. Have you looked at the source code for this? You might not have Delphi so I took this from the delphi source


procedure TWinControl.CreateParams(var Params: TCreateParams);
begin
  FillChar(Params, SizeOf(Params), 0);
  with Params do
  begin
    Caption := FText;
    Style := WS_CHILD or WS_CLIPSIBLINGS;
    AddBiDiModeExStyle(ExStyle);
    if csAcceptsControls in ControlStyle then
    begin
      Style := Style or WS_CLIPCHILDREN;
      ExStyle := ExStyle or WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT;
    end;
    if not (csDesigning in ComponentState) and not Enabled then
      Style := Style or WS_DISABLED;
    if FTabStop then Style := Style or WS_TABSTOP;
    X := FLeft;
    Y := FTop;
    Width := FWidth;
    Height := FHeight;
    if Parent <> nil then
      WndParent := Parent.GetHandle else
      WndParent := FParentWindow;
    WindowClass.style := CS_VREDRAW + CS_HREDRAW + CS_DBLCLKS;
    WindowClass.lpfnWndProc := @DefWindowProc;
    WindowClass.hCursor := LoadCursor(0, IDC_ARROW);
    WindowClass.hbrBackground := 0;
    WindowClass.hInstance := HInstance;
    StrPCopy(WinClassName, ClassName);
  end;
end;


This was the only place that csAcceptsControls was used. If you don''t have delphi I can send you the controls.pas unit so that you may be able to duplicate this behavior in the TGraphicControl.
MButchers
MButchers
cheers chewy,that shoulkd help - will try windowed control
with ws_transparent.

Thanks

MButchers
MButchers
yep that works - all except for slight flicker when
showing control - will post a link to website for
downloading nearer completion for anyone thats interested

Cheers all.
ggs
ggs
hmm. I knew I should have looked at the VCL source BEFORE I started my delphiX GUI.
I''ve done it the hard way and duplicated the ability for a TGraphicsControl to host another TGraphicsControl.
If you can read Delphi then the source is @
http://turbo.gamedev.net/V.5DXgui.zip

I''ll be releasing a near total rework of DXInput.pas soon.
Still adding event support to the joystick
I havent touched the forcefeed back code because I dont have a
forcefeed back joystick
The mouse works, and the keyboard is even more powerful.
Full support for window/non-windowed mode with the mouse, exclusive/non-exclusive modes.

PS
Turbo the search box is dead. It doesnt properly display the results(in netscape works in explorer). Have to dig them out of the HTML source.
And can the link for the DXGui V0.05 be updated ...
Sly
Sly
It is described in the help file that a control can contain other controls (be a parent of other controls) if that control descends from TWinControl. TCustomControl descends from TWinControl and provides a virtual Paint method to make it easier to use.

TGraphicControl does not descend from TWinControl. It does not contain a window handle and therefore uses less resources.

Steve ''Sly'' Williams  Code Monkey  Krome Studios

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