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How to create sexy icons...??? 
Take a picture of me, resize to 32x32 and change color depth to 256 colors at best on win98 (i think).
Just jokes.
Ummm what I do is a bit of a hack, but still a solution.
Create the image in Paint (I would suggest you download PSP) as 32x32.
save as 256 color bitmap gif or jpeg.
Ctrl+A
Ctrl+C
Open VC++ resource editor create a new icon with 256 colors 32x32 resolution. Ctrl+V.
Whola!!! cheap export of bitmap to icon...
Other suggestions...look for a free d/l graphics files converter. I think you can convert from ICO to BMP and back.
Cheers! 
"An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr
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DanYELL wrote:
How can I create sexy looking icons?
Put Elle Macpherson on them ? :P
Christian
The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little.
"I'm somewhat suspicious of STL though. My (test,experimental) program worked first time. Whats that all about??!?!
- Jon Hulatt, 22/3/2002
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Actually Visual Studio comes with a sample program called "IconPro" (search your HD for it, you have to compile it yourself). It has a feature for converting .bmp files to .ico files. and it supports icons up to 128 * 128 pixels, and 32 bit colour. I use it frequently.
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Sonork 100.11743 Chicken Little
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
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I want to make the translucence,that is i want to see the background from the dialog which just on the background.
And I am working in win98.
thank you for your help!
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Search for Opaque and Transparent.
Mazy
"So,so you think you can tell,
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain,...
How I wish,how I wish you were here."
Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd-1975
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I use the following code to change the dialog into transparent ,but failed.The dialog is a child wnd in a CRichEditView,and it has not titlebar
m_bf.SourceConstantAlpha = 0;
m_bf.BlendOp = AC_SRC_OVER;
m_bf.BlendFlags = 0;
m_bf.AlphaFormat = 0;
m_nWidth=rc.Width ();
m_nHeight=rc.Height ();
CBitmap m_bitmap;
CClientDC dc(this);
CDC dcMem;
dcMem.CreateCompatibleDC(&dc);
::AlphaBlend(dc, 0,0, m_nWidth, m_nHeight, dcMem, 0,0,m_nWidth, m_nHeight,m_bf);
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I'm not sure I understand you fully, but if you want to see through some portions of your dialog I think all you do is make your brush NULL.
Maybe have to handle WM_ERASEBKGND with FALSE or TRUE too...
Look around CP there are lots of examples of Skinned sytle apps using bitmaps, regions whatever....
Cheers!
"An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr
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thank you for help!
If I want make alpha value of dialog is between 10 and 200.How can I?
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I’m tired and grumpy... I’m at the end of a project and the last thing I have left is, of course, the stuff I really don’t want to do.
The application I’ve written calls for a "Search for Files" type view. Basically duplicating the "Start/Search" functionality. Don’t ask... I’ve been asking that myself and all I get is a “it’s got to be there”.
I’m not up to reinvent the freaking wheel. Given that the "Search" in Windows (XP in this case) is already there and it seems to be a simple HTA type application, how do I get it into an embedded CHtmlView? (by the way, I'm stuck with VC6 for the time being).
The alternative to that is to write a recursive search engine and fill up my own list control, implementing that obnoxious Shell ID’s crap, icons, context menus, drag & drop, you know the drill. I really don’t feel like it. Unless, of course, you have something like that already. If that’s the case, let’s talk...
Thanks,
g
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There is an advanced CListCtrl under List controls section here at CP. The control implements drag and drop behavior and uses the system image list I think.
This isn't exactly the everything done for you, but it's a start...
Have a day!
"An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr
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thank you for the reply but i have read through many of those documents. Most of these documents require physical manipulation of the listbox. what i need is to progammically select and deselect items from the list. that works great until i do not want any items in the list highted. i can not get the last item to deselect.
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I just downloaded the Perl Editor by: DzSoft and I love there menus.
They look like XP style...
How is this accomplished...I have drawn many a ownerdrawn menus and cannot figure out how they get the shadow effect...? in Windows 98 anyways.
I'm thinking create your own entire menu system from Cwnd's...?
Just curious...thanx!
"An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr
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i actually don't know which shadow effect that you really would like to have.. but give this a try:
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/MenuXP2.asp
have a nice one
bernhard
Sometimes I think the surest sign for intelligent life elsewhere in
the universe is that none of them ever tried to contact us.
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Thanx....I'll check it out.
"An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr
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Thats the one...I want to know how they do that under win98...I have tried everything to paint ownerdraw menus that way and cannot overwrite the edges/borders of Windows menus. So i'm assuming they don't use the default windows menus and if they do I want to know how they do it...
Cheers!
"An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr
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Hello,
I have a dialog based app. It has a few controls on it and I also bitblted an image to it in OnPaint(). I have some edit boxes and other controls on the dialog that need to go on top of the image but when it gets painted the images is painted over them. I have tried sending a WM_PAINT message to the controls but this doesn't work. Any ideas?
Thank you,
Susan
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Put an image control on the dialog. Then change the tab order as the control to become the first; resize it from code to fill the entire dialog box area and associate the bitmap to it.
Good luck!
rechi
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Try handling the WM_ERASEBKGND message instead of OnPaint()
-Jack
To an optimist the glass is half full.
To a pessimist the glass is half empty.
To a programmer the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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by the way..
i don't think that you normally force redrawing of anything in mfc with sending WM_PAINT - messages to the window.. you normally Invalidate that window (controls are windows too).. then it is forced to redraw itself.
m_edit.Invalidate();
i am no expert, but i think this is the proper MFC way.
Bernhard
Sometimes I think the surest sign for intelligent life elsewhere in
the universe is that none of them ever tried to contact us.
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Make sure that you have the CS_CLIPCHILDREN style set for your dialog. When you ask for a DC for that window, it will automatically clip the children rectangles from where you are allowed to paint, and you will no longer paint over your controls.
You can set this style for your dialog after it has been created by doing this:
LONG lStyle = ::GetClassLong(hDlg, GCL_STYLE);
lStyle |= CS_CLIPCHILDREN;
::SetClassLong(hDlg, GCL_STYLE, lStyle);
By the way, you should paint the bitmap in the WM_ERASEBKGND message instead. This will reduce any flicker that may appear, and it is a fundamentally better place to perform that action.
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I've created a dialog based application and i've put a WebBrowser control inside.
The application fails to create the dialog and i would like to know how to fix the bug.
rechi
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