DDT dialog with bitmap

[Guest]

Does anyone out there in "code land" have an example in their "toolbox" of painting the client area of a ddt window with a bitmap from a resource file? I have been playing around with Setclasslong and the %GWL_HBRBACKGROUND(from a non-ddt code example) but so far I haven't had much luck? I am beginning to wonder if you can use these two in conjunction with ddt windows.
Either that, or I don't know what I am doing(whick wouldn't be a first).

Regards,
Adam

[Jules Marchildon]

no problem, i will dig some up for you. if you have any labels
without frames, you will have to paint it's background with a
transparent brush, otherwise it looks kind of goofy.

lance and dave posted awhile back some splash screen demo's in
the ftp site. that will get your bitmap nicely into your
dialog box. scott has one for ddt.

links


http://www.powerbasic.com/files/pub/...ics/splash.zip


if your dialog is resizable, you will need to trap the "paint background" message and replace it with your own repaint.

i have a really nice example in c i can send to you too! it would
not be difficult to port over.

regards, jules

[this message has been edited by jules marchildon (edited february 18, 2000).]

[Guest]

Thank ya' ever so much sir. It's amazing the programming experience surging through the veins of these forums. I have to go and hook up the huskies to the dog sled now so I can get through all this new snow we have gotten today(Ahhhhhh - Michigan; buried in snow one day - it all melts away the next)

mush,mush....

Regards,
Adam


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[Lance Edmonds]

Also note that PB/DLL 6.0 comes with SMTP.BAS (in SAMPLES\TCP} which is an example of displaying a bmp in the client area of a DDT dialog. The code loads the file from disk, but conversion to use a resourcefile is minor.



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[Guest]

Right underneath my nose, that figures. That was one example I never bother to look at. I will check it out.

Thank ya' sir,
Adam


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[Guest]

You will have to forgive my stupidity Lance, but what would that minor conversion be?(and I thought I could handle it myself, ha)

Adam


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[Lance Edmonds]

Place the image into the resource file and change the LoadImage() line to get the image from there instead of a disk file:

Orig:
hBmp = LoadImage(BYVAL %NULL, bmpfile, %IMAGE_BITMAP, x, y, %LR_LOADFROMFILE)

New (will need to be adapted to your usage therefore this is not tested) :
hBmp = LoadImage(GetModuleHandle(""), %idbmpfile, %IMAGE_BITMAP, x, y, %LR_DEFAULTSIZE)



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Lance
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[Donald Miller]

I'm a bit confused by the fact that "SMTP.bmp" appears no where,
and indirection, such as "REPLACE ".EXE" WITH ".BMP" IN bmpfile"
does not help.

Does anyone have a less confusing example of getting a screen-shot.bmp
compiled into a program?

With GRAPHIC WINDOW, GRAPHIC ATTACH, and GRAPHIC RENDER, I was able
to display several views from disc files, but I want to get all files
into one *.exe.

Yep, another GUI newbie is on a steep learning curve.

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[Adam J. Drake]

SMTP.BMP is inside of \SAMPLES\INTERNET\SMTP...

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However, the GRAPHIC control provides much more ease of use in creating a bitmap "viewport" of sorts on a dialog...


[This message has been edited by Adam J. Drake (edited July 07, 2005).]

[Donald Miller]

Adam, I'm not quite tracking.

RE SMTP.BMP, I knew where it was on disk, but not in the code.

RE GRAPHIC control: I said that I had been able to display *.bmp
files from disk, using GRAPHIC, but I want to end up with only
one file to distribute, not five.

From 1999 to 2005, there are numerous posts on bitmaps and resource
files, but I see none that take advantage of latest compiler version.
I want some kind person[s] to specifically explain getting *.bmp
files into resource file / exe file, with only finite [smile ]
learning on my part. I now have PBWin-8 and PBForms 1.51.

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[This message has been edited by Donald Miller (edited July 07, 2005).]

[Ron Zutz]

To place a bitmap in resource file:

LOGO BITMAP LOGO.BMP
MYPIC BITMAP SOMEPIC.BMP

The bitmaps files obviously must exist and be in proper folder when .RC is compiled into .PBR.

#RESOURCE "myapp.pbr"
CONTROL ADD GRAPHIC, main_dwHandle, %cnvMyCanvas, "", 0, 0, 200, 200
CONTROL HANDLE main_dwHandle, %cnvMyCanvas, TO main_dwGraphicHandle

GRAPHIC ATTACH main_dwGraphicHandle, 0

GRAPHIC RENDER "LOGO", (0, 0) - (99, 99)
GRAPHIC RENDER "MYPIC", (100, 000) - (199, 199)
... repeat for however many bitmaps appear

Note that if you plan to resize images, or do anything else where the graphic control size varies,
the graphic control must be killed and added again.

Ron Z


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[This message has been edited by Ron Zutz (edited July 08, 2005).]

[Adam J. Drake]

Sorry, misunderstood exactly what you were asking...What Ron said about resource files...

In regard to SMTP.BMP, here's how the filename is being derived:

    LOCAL  bmpfile AS ASCIIZ * %MAX_PATH 

' down to line 287...
   
        GetModuleFilename %NULL, bmpfile, SIZEOF(bmpfile)
        bmpfile = UCASE$(bmpfile)
        REPLACE ".EXE" WITH ".BMP" IN bmpfile

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[This message has been edited by Adam J. Drake (edited July 08, 2005).]