ownerdrawn menu

[evlncrn8]

hi all, i've seen some posts on ownerdrawn stuff here, but the attachments on the posts seem non existant any more
if anyone has any source showing how to properly do owner drawn menus i'd be very grateful..
my own attempts seem work work, but then screw up on overlapping popup menus, submenu->another submenu
where it seems some clipping takes place (even though i disabled the clip region)

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[ragdog]

hi

do you look for ownerdraw menu of examples??


ragdog

[drizz]

XXControls has some really nice ownerdrawn stuff (including menus)
http://chib.hut1.ru/

[evlncrn8]

@ragdog - yes, preferably simple, just showing how to (properly) handle the WM_MEASUREITEM - i think i have that nailed though, and the WM_DRAWITEM (this part i think i have bug-ified heh), primarially its to work with popupmenus - but that shouldn't really matter, the main issue i have (as stated) is when the popupmenu has a sub menu (another popup) and it overlaps the 'parent', if i move the mouse quickly, the drawing is a bit screwed and it looks like some clipping region...

@drizz - i'll check out the site..

thanks to you both

[donkey]

Here's a demo of a font menu I wrote...



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[donkey]

And one that uses a toolbar and runs vertically...



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[evlncrn8]

cheers donkey, i'll go through the code and see if it sorts the overlap/clipping issue, its quite frustrating, but doesnt look good...

[donkey]

No Problem, but I do not understand what you mean by the "overlapping" problem. If you could post an example I would gladly take a look at it, it would get me away from the COM problems I am struggling with if only for a little while (I am trying to write a shell extension in assembly).

[evlncrn8]

got it fixed, thanks all

the problem was i wasn't handling the selection part properly, it looked like clipping, but wasn't, all the code pointed me in the right direction
thanks again all :)

shell extension in com is painful for sure donkey, i wish u all the luck with it, personally i just patch the registry portion with the shell command.. cheating i know, but it avoids all the painful 'registrations' etc..

[ic2]

Here's  one i found that seems easy to follow.

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[donkey]

shell extension in com is painful for sure donkey, i wish u all the luck with it, personally i just patch the registry portion with the shell command.. cheating i know, but it avoids all the painful 'registrations' etc..

Yes, it is to say the least a painful experience, I have been at it for 3 days now and no end in site. But once I have a template it will be a useful tool for building IContextMenu handlers and that's about the only reason I'm still at it.

[drizz]

Hi donkey,

i wrote some code to handle IContextMenu. it's a real mess. see if you can find something of interest in it

Edit: forgot to add resources to the zip

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[donkey]

Right on Drizz,

Thanks, you have relieved almost all of my pain. If you don't mind I will farm your interface.asm for code, I had some misconceptions that seem to have come from the half-assed docs at MSDN and went way overboard in my interface handling. Your code is much simpler than mine and in no way do I find it a mess.

Donkey

[drizz]

If you don't mind I will farm your interface.asm for code

please do. btw, you can find some more samples at Japheth's site.

I have been at it for 3 days now and no end in site

something offtopic.. a log (meant to be a board post) i made during the making of that project.. i know how you feel  :bg
describes how frustrated i was..



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[donkey]

I know exactly what you mean, here's my project to date. It just doesn't seem to work and I can't figure out why. Probably lost in some indirection myself :)

NOTE: GoAsm syntax

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