Animated Labels

[Walt Thompson Member Find all posts View Profile Close Walt Thompson]

This demo allows a label to act, somewhat, like a button. When you click on it, it depresses like a button. However, it will stay depressed for the duration of the SLEEP command and then return to its normal state.

If the SLEEP command is replaced with a function or sub call, the label will remain depressed until the function of sub returns. Beyond that, I haven't a clue how this demo might be employed.

#COMPILE EXE
#DIM ALL

%Test = 1001

'******************************************************************************
'   ** Functions and Subs **
'******************************************************************************
DECLARE CALLBACK FUNCTION ShowDlgProc()

'******************************************************************************
'   ** Program Entry Point **
'******************************************************************************
FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG
    STATIC hParent      AS DWORD
    STATIC hDlg         AS DWORD
    STATIC ClientX      AS DWORD
    STATIC ClientY      AS DWORD
    STATIC DlgSizeX     AS DWORD
    STATIC DlgSizeY     AS DWORD
    STATIC CtrlX        AS DWORD
    STATIC CtrlY        AS DWORD
    
    LOCAL  lRslt        AS DWORD
    
    DESKTOP GET CLIENT TO ClientX, ClientY
    DIALOG NEW PIXELS, hParent, "Animated Label", 0, 0, 800, 500, %WS_SYSMENU, TO hDlg
    DIALOG SET COLOR hDlg, -1,           %CYAN

    DIALOG GET SIZE  hDlg TO DlgSizeX, DlgSizeY
    DIALOG SET LOC   hDlg, (ClientX - DlgSizeX) / 2, (ClientY - DlgSizeY) / 2
       
    CONTROL ADD LABEL, hDlg, %Test, "Standby",   340, 200, 128,  128, %SS_CENTER OR %SS_CENTERIMAGE OR %SS_NOTIFY, ,
    CONTROL SET COLOR hDlg, %Test, %BLUE, %YELLOW
    
    CONTROL GET SIZE hDlg, %Test TO CtrlX, CtrlY
    CONTROL SET LOC hdlg, %Test, (DlgSizeX - CtrlX) / 2, (DlgSizeY - CtrlY) / 2
        
    DIALOG SHOW MODAL hDlg, CALL ShowDlgProc TO lRslt
END FUNCTION

'******************************************************************************
'   ** CallBacks **
'******************************************************************************
CALLBACK FUNCTION ShowDlgProc()
    
    SELECT CASE CB.MSG
        CASE %WM_COMMAND
            ' Process control notifications
            CONTROL SET FOCUS CB.HNDL, CB.CTL
            SELECT CASE AS LONG CB.CTL
                 CASE %Test
                    CONTROL KILL CB.HNDL, %Test
                    CONTROL ADD LABEL, CB.HNDL, %Test, "Working",   340, 200, 128,  128, %SS_CENTER OR %SS_CENTERIMAGE OR %SS_NOTIFY, %WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,
                    CONTROL SET COLOR CB.HNDL, %Test, %BLUE, %GREEN
                    CONTROL REDRAW CB.HNDL, %Test
                    DIALOG DOEVENTS 1
                    SLEEP 1000
                    CONTROL KILL CB.HNDL, %Test
                    CONTROL ADD LABEL, CB.HNDL, %Test, "Standby",   340, 200, 128,  128, %SS_CENTER OR %SS_CENTERIMAGE OR %SS_NOTIFY, ,
                    CONTROL SET COLOR CB.HNDL, %Test, %BLUE, %YELLOW
                    CONTROL REDRAW CB.HNDL, %Test
            END SELECT
    END SELECT

END FUNCTION

[Fred Buffington Member Find all posts View Profile Close Fred Buffington]

I am wondering why you use a DIALOG DOEVENTS in the callback. I don't see
a modeless dialog in your code example. I don't believe this statement will
do much if anything.

Another way to show a 'pushed button' using a label, it so leave the label
there (without killing it) and just change it with control add line (reversing the
white and black borders to simulate pushed/released state).

[Walt Thompson Member Find all posts View Profile Close Walt Thompson]

Hi Fred;

The DIALOG DOEVENTS is a left over. The code was extracted from a larger application.

Changing the CONTROL ADD line with out first killing the control, causes the background colors to mix. Instead of yellow for Standby and green for Working you get a mix of green and yellow.