User defined shapes?

[qWord]

this program do it as follow:
- it determines the (client) postion of dialogs controls (2 statics).
- using these coordinates it creates two rectangular regions  and combine them
- the dialogs region is then replaced by the new one

[Gunner]

Those samples DO use regions... that is the only way to do it...

Open them in your debugger and you will see... CreateRectRgnIndirect, CreateRectRgn, CombineRgn etc....

[jj2007]

[hfheatherfox07]

I am sorry I am not familiar with file extension .asc   
what do you do with  TwoRegions.asc  ?

[jj2007]

To see the source: *.asc opens fine in WordPad or MS Word. To assemble the source, open with RichMasm.exe (part of the MasmBasic library) and hit F6.

[hfheatherfox07]

LOL thanks for the try I think right now that is out of my skill level to understand  :(

I think I will try the IDC_SHP thing

[hfheatherfox07]

Those samples DO use regions... that is the only way to do it...

Open them in your debugger and you will see... CreateRectRgnIndirect, CreateRectRgn, CombineRgn etc....

I have another example at home that I tried ... although I can draw the 2 rects I can not make them into a region all it looks like is 2 squares drawn an a static

what I am tying to say Is I do not know how to tie the IDC_SHP with the rect that I am drawing

I tried
invoke SetWindowRgn,hWnd,IDC_SHP1,TRUE 

that crashed LOL

[hfheatherfox07]

I found some examples on CreateRectRgnIndirect, CreateRectRgn here:


http://comrade.ownz.com/docs/shapewnd.html

Download the attachment

http://comrade.ownz.com/docs/shapewnd.zip

It is not what I am looking to do with IDC_SHP

but it will give me a start ....

anyways I figured I'd share the example that I found , in case some of you were interested as well :bg

[Gunner]

Those samples DO use regions... that is the only way to do it...

Open them in your debugger and you will see... CreateRectRgnIndirect, CreateRectRgn, CombineRgn etc....

I have another example at home that I tried ... although I can draw the 2 rects I can not make them into a region all it looks like is 2 squares drawn an a static

what I am tying to say Is I do not know how to tie the IDC_SHP with the rect that I am drawing

I tried
invoke SetWindowRgn,hWnd,IDC_SHP1,TRUE 

that crashed LOL

Of course it crashed... IDC_SHP1 is not a region, it is an equ for a dialog identifier

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int SetWindowRgn(
  HWND hWnd,     // handle to window
  HRGN hRgn,     // handle to region
  BOOL bRedraw   // window redraw option
);


The only place you would use IDC_SHP1, is with the dialog box functions that take an identifier as a parameter

[jj2007]

Here is another one - you will hate it :green2

(try typing something in the edit box :bg)

[dedndave]

IDC_xxxxx is normally used for cursors
you should come up with a different convention   :P

i like it Jochen   :bg
except i can't close it without task manager - lol

[hfheatherfox07]

Thanks.... I will look into it
so far I believe that you are right CreateRectRgnIndirect, CreateRectRgn, CombineRgn etc ( debugger wouldn't lie LOL)

I found another article and attachments that deal with that although it is in c language I belive we can use it in MASM

http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Win32_Window_Skinning.shtml

[jj2007]

Dave,

Alt F4 or Escape should close it. At least it does under Win XP SP2...
Version 3 above allows to use the edit box. Hold Shift...

[qWord]

ok - this should come very near to what you expect hfheatherfox07: simply modify the *.rc - the region is automatically created at startup.

@JJ: i like your idea of these moving hole ^^

[hfheatherfox07]

Thanks ....

:bg