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Hmm.. Fancy Window program

Started by Von Apr 8, 2001 at 6:54 AM 8 replies 500+ views

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Apr 8, 2001 at 6:54 AM

I''m wondering on how to do window programs that doesn''t conform to the standend window style. eg square window, boxy buttons... title bar... ? How do they actually customise the window?

dwarfsoft

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dwarfsoft

Apr 8, 2001 at 7:07 AM

I think they do it by drawing a DirectX area over the top of the area of screen that they want. Maybe they use a few layers, but I am not sure... I can see how it is possible to do by just making a lot of very small directX layers that just conform to your shape... you could even make circular windows

-Chris Bennett of Dwarfsoft - Site:"The Philosophers'' Stone of Programming Alchemy" - IOL
The future of RPGs - Thanks to all the goblins over in our little Game Design Corner niche

dwarfsoft

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dwarfsoft

Apr 8, 2001 at 9:56 PM

I''m still wondering, tho, about how mouse clicks are handled on areas that are supposed to transparent and therefore the mouse should be clicking on what is behind the window... does this cause a problem? Or does the hidden aspect mean that it defaults to clicking on the program behind unless it clicks on the hotspot for the bitmaps?

-Chris Bennett of Dwarfsoft The future of RPGs

Thanks to all the goblins over in our little Game Design Corner niche

Null and Void

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Null and Void

Apr 8, 2001 at 10:56 PM

I think what you''re wondering about dwarfsoft would be convered by some WM_NCHITEST documentation.

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dwarfsoft

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dwarfsoft

Apr 8, 2001 at 11:01 PM

I am going to make a program that uses round windows EXCLUSIVELY just to spite windows by taking up the most space with the least functionality per pixel as possible

-Chris Bennett of Dwarfsoft - The future of RPGs

Thanks to all the goblins over in our little Game Design Corner niche

Kestrel

Apr 8, 2001 at 11:51 PM

check this out

http://www.itaz.com/edgetracer/irregular_windows_bcb.htm

it''s done with borland builder but I''m sure it can be done in win32

dwarfsoft

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dwarfsoft

Apr 9, 2001 at 12:05 AM

Interesting... I will have a little play around with that source code and see what I can do using M$VC. It could be quite fun... Or maybe I will just use DX like I was going to before

-Chris Bennett of Dwarfsoft - The future of RPGs

Thanks to all the goblins over in our little Game Design Corner niche

omegasyphon

Apr 9, 2001 at 8:45 AM

maybe i missed this but that link only shows you how to change the shape of the window and not the buttons

Von

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Von

Apr 12, 2001 at 7:39 PM

Thx...

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