Here's a new version that actually is starting to look like an application.
When in skinned mode, there are now close and minimize buttons (rather crude ones). That's the 2 new bmps included in this message. The un-skinned version has a menu bar, and a button to click to switch to skin mode. When in skinned mode, there is a minimize and close button, and a standard button to switch out of skin mode. Also when in skinned mode, you can right click to get a pop-up menu. I think that I also have taken care of the alignment problems. The C++ example that I was using created the regions, then removed the windows borders and caption, and them moved the region to attempt to fit in the window. What I do now is I remove the caption and borders, and then create the region. This (at least on W2K) takes care of the alignment problems. I am aware of one bug; if you drag the window partially off the screen while skinned, then the buttons disappear. I'm not sure what's causing that yet. I also fixed how I was creating the regions, thanks to Rob's input. My next steps are to: 1) Fix the above bug 2) Create the skin region on startup, instead of when switching to skin mode. That will take care of the delay when switching to skin mode. Has anyone found this useful? Should I continue to send updates to the list, or isn't there enough interest? Should I look into creating a Skin object? Brian Millham This message traveled at least 44,000 miles to reach you! Creator of the DW6000 Monitor http://www.millham.net/dw6000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Robert May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 3:02 PM To: Brian Millham Cc: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [win32gui] RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Skins in Win32-GUI I seem to be missing something to make this work: C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\win32-gui-archive\skin>perl skin4.pl Can't locate Win32/GUI/BorderlessWindow.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/5.8.7 /lib C:/Perl/5.8.7/site/lib .) at skin4.pl line 4. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at skin4.pl line 4. Did I miss a mail? Rob. Brian Millham wrote: > Here's a new version that allows you to double click when skinned, and drag > the skinned version of the window. > > Brian Millham > This message traveled at least 44,000 miles to reach you! > Creator of the DW6000 Monitor > http://www.millham.net/dw6000 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian > Millham > Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:15 PM > To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] Skins in Win32-GUI > > Here's a new version. You can give it any bitmap (see line 18, and change > the bmp file to any bmp file that you'd like. > > The default transparent color is white, but you can change it on line 52. > > I just got this working, so there are some issues. You still can't drag the > app when skinned. I had to do some manual adjustments on the alignment of > the skin, and I only have W2K to test with, so I don't know how it will look > on XP. > > It also takes a second to create the skin each time that you switch to skin > mode. > > I've included 1 new example bitmaps. (Note that skin3.bmp has white borders > around the edges. It was how I created the images in PSP. It's actually a > fade to white that I didn't mean to put there.) > > Let me know if I'm on the right track! > > Would it be worth creating a Win32::GUI::Skin module? > > > Brian Millham > This message traveled at least 44,000 miles to reach you! > Creator of the DW6000 Monitor > http://www.millham.net/dw6000 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Plum, > Jason > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 10:12 AM > To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Skins in Win32-GUI > > From the examples I have sen on non-perl sites, the pixel lineup issue > is actually a pre XP vs XP issue. I'll try to find it again to see what > we can do to make the alignments. Something about the applications' > theming in XP. > > The adjustment is soemthing in the order of 2-4 pixels. > > Jason P. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Brian Millham > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:48 AM > To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Skins in Win32-GUI > > Here's a much improved version. > > The 2 errors still show when switching to skin mode. > > You can you switch between window and skin mode by right clicking the > mouse. > > I need to add the code to move the window when in skin mode. > > The skin isn't lined up right yet. It's off by a few pixels at the top. > > I've also found some sample code (in C++) to read a bitmap, and create > the regions from the bitmap. I'll work on that next. > > Brian Millham > This message traveled at least 44,000 miles to reach you! > Creator of the DW6000 Monitor > http://www.millham.net/dw6000 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Brian Millham > Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 7:22 PM > To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] Skins in Win32-GUI > > Hi all, > I've been playing with this a little bit this afternoon, and > have a very simple, incomplete app that is sort-of skinned. > > The skin bitmap is not properly positioned (I'm not sure how to move it > yet, it needs to cover the complete window, including the title bar) and > there are 2 errors when you start the program complaining about the > CreateEllipticRgn sub. Oh, and there's no way to close it, you have to > Ctrl-C it from the command line. > > To run this, just save the script and the bmp file in the same > directory. > > Over all, this shows that it's not to difficult to create a > skinned app with perl and Win32::GUI. > > I hope that this helps someone, and I'll send an updated version > once I figure out the glitches. > > Brian Millham > This message traveled at least 44,000 miles to reach you! > Creator of the DW6000 Monitor > http://www.millham.net/dw6000 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 0608-1, 02/23/2006 Tested on: 2/26/2006 7:21:50 PM > avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 0608-1, 02/23/2006 Tested on: 2/26/2006 8:00:43 PM > avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > > --- > avast! 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