2 Questions... Animated Cursors and Color Dialog

[RyanCross]

QUESTION 1:

How do I load an animated cursor from your resource. I tried using LoadCursor and LoadImage, but they didn't work. I'm using LoadImage right now to laod it from a file, but I want the cursor in the EXE. How do I do this or what am I doing wrong?

QUESTION 2:

Can someone please post a Common Dialog Choose Color example. I searched the forums but couldn't find one. I tried doing it myself but I keep getting errors.


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[Eric Pearson]

LoadImage should work fine. Without the LR_LOADFROMFILE equate, of course. The first parameter would be the instance handle of your EXE (from the hCurInstance parameter of the WinMain function) and the second parameter would be the identifier number of an animated icon that is embedded in the $RESOURCE file. It is also possible (but less efficient) to use a string identifier for an icon.

I'm not sure how you would include an ANI file in a resource file, however. Visual Studio did not allow me to do it just now. Maybe you have to rename it to *.ICO and embed it as a normal icon?

-- Eric



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[Eric Pearson]

I forgot to mention that many animated "cursors" are actually animated icons. So you may have to use %IMAGE_ICON with LoadImage, not %IMAGE_CURSOR.

-- Eric

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[Semen Matusovski]

SetCursor LoadCursorFromFile ("filename.ANI") works fine for me

Short sample:

#Compile Exe
#Register None
#Include "Win32Api.Inc"

Function PbMain()
   Local hDlg As Long
   Dialog New 0 ,"SubClass ?", 0, 0, 200, 100, %DS_CENTER Or %WS_SYSMENU To hDlg
   Control Add Label,  hDlg, 101, "Label", 10, 5, 30, 12
   Control Add TextBox,  hDlg, 201, "Edit control-1", 10, 25, 170, 12
   Control Add Button,  hDlg, 102, "&Button", 40, 5, 130, 12
   SetClassLong hDlg, %GCL_HCURSOR, LoadCursorFromFile ("C:\Winnt\Cursors\Globe.ANI")
   SetClassLong GetDlgItem(hDlg, 102), %GCL_HCURSOR, LoadCursorFromFile ("C:\Winnt\Cursors\HAND.ANI")
   SetClassLong GetDlgItem(hDlg, 201), %GCL_HCURSOR, LoadCursorFromFile ("C:\Winnt\Cursors\HORSE.ANI")
   Dialog Show Modal hDlg
End Function

[This message has been edited by Semen Matusovski (edited March 01, 2000).]

[Eric Pearson]

to answer question #2 i just posted this in the source code forum...

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...ad.php?t=22592

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[this message has been edited by eric pearson (edited march 01, 2000).]

[Ian Cairns]

there is also a choosecolor demo here:

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...ad.php?t=22571

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