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Program Announcements / New DLL: Window Skinning

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Scilynt
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Posted: 6th Sep 2003 17:03 Edited at: 15th May 2005 00:49
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Hi, just a small DLL from me, for skinning your DBPro windows. First off, this is P5 only, but if anyone would like a Pre-P5 version then let me know. Anyway, 3 new commands...

1) Skin Window: This is our main command, you pass it a Bitmap filename, and the R,G and B components of the colour to be transparent. eg. Skin Window "Skin.bmp",255,0,255

2) Remove Window Skin: This will return the window to it's default state, eg When your app first loads.

3) Drag Window: Just an easy way to drag the window from anywhere on the window, you can use a MouseInZone type function as in the example to restrict dragging to a certain area.

Can be used for anything you want, don't need any credit. Take a look at the example for usage and some notes.

Download: Take a look at this post

And a screen:


I'm putting the green line around the window down to PS's AA.
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Gardocki
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That could be really useful. One question, though. Can you update the mask during runtime? Like if someone clicks a button, could the mask be given a different bitmap and change its shape?
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Posted: 20th Sep 2003 05:32 Edited at: 20th Sep 2003 05:36
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wow that is really good. will be useful for my games. might i suggest being able to have several windows open at the same time?
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AuzingLG
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Posted: 20th Sep 2003 16:45
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Cool!

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Scilynt
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Posted: 4th Oct 2003 00:11
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Sorry for the rather long delay in replying, no-one had said anything for about a week and since I don't normally visit here I stopped checking back.

@Gardocki: Incase you haven't checked out the example by now then yes you can update during runtime, by calling Skin Window again will take a new image and transparent values and update the window as needed.

@LordSorcre: I'm not sure what you mean by having several windows open at the same time.

@AuzingLG: It is, isn't it .
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Ian T
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Very useful. Thank you

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

A very nice %it, indeed.
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ZomBfied
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This rules! Thanks! How did you do it?
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