Flat Buttons

[Joe Speroni]

I tried to make the CONTROL button's appear flat (w/o
raised 3-D look). But the button disapears. Does anyone
see what I'm doing wrong?
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#COMPILE EXE
#REGISTER NONE
$INCLUDE "WIN32API.INC"

GLOBAL hDlg AS LONG

GLOBAL DWidth AS LONG, DHeight AS LONG
GLOBAL KWidth AS LONG, KHeight AS LONG

CALLBACK FUNCTION CB_KEY()
MSGBOX"aaa"
END FUNCTION

FUNCTION PBMAIN() AS LONG
DWidth=600:DHeight=440
KWidth=10:KHeight=100

DIALOG NEW 0,"Academy",,,DWidth,DHeight,%WS_CAPTION OR %WS_SYSMENU,0 TO hDlg
IF hDlg=0 THEN EXIT FUNCTION  ' Error occurred
t&=(DWidth-52*(KWidth+1))/2
FOR i&=0 TO 51
  CONTROL ADD BUTTON,hDlg,800+i&,"",t&+(KWidth+1)*i&,260,KWidth,KHeight,0,%BS_OWNERDRAW OR %BS_DEFAULT OR %BS_LEFT CALL OR %BS_FLAT CB_KEY
' The statement below works but causes a 3D raised look
' CONTROL ADD BUTTON,hDlg,800+i&,"",t&+(KWidth+1)*i&,260,KWidth,KHeight,0,%BS_OWNERDRAW OR %BS_DEFAULT OR %BS_LEFT CALL CB_KEY
NEXT i&
DIALOG SHOW MODAL hDlg
END FUNCTION

[Semen Matusovski]

Originally posted by Joe Speroni:
I tried to make the CONTROL button's appear flat (w/o
raised 3-D look). But the button disapears. Does anyone
see what I'm doing wrong?

Joe --
Many.
1) %BS_OWNERDRAW means that you draw by yourself.
2) You set exstyle instead of style
Sample of "flat":

   #Compile Exe
   #Register None
   #Dim All
   #Include "WIN32API.INC"
   Function PbMain() As Long
      Dim hDlg As Long
      Dialog New 0,"Academy", , , 100, 70, %WS_SYSMENU To hDlg
      Control Add Button,hDlg, 101,"3D", 10, 5, 75, 15
      Control Add Button,hDlg, 102,"Flat", 10, 25, 75, 15, %BS_FLAT
      Dialog Show Modal hDlg
   End Function

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[Joe Speroni]

Thanks again Semen. The problem with the extra zero in the
CONTROL ADD line would have taken me a lot of time to find!
Didn't realize I was using EX_ styles.

%BS_FLAT is 0x8000. I was unable to find any %WS_EX_xxxx
definition with the same value. So I don't know what it was
doing, but it acted as if it meant "don't display anything".

The OWNERDRAW code was intended, but I didn't include the CB
code.

Thanks for your EX clue. I got it the code working.

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