brucexs wrote (on 17.08.2006 00:18): > For now, I think the only value add is to be able to alpha-blend png > button labels into the background (or png backgrounds into a bar > background color).
Is it possible at all? I've found nothing about alpha-channel transparency here, but then I'm not much familiar with Windows programming and MSDN after all: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdicpp/GDIPlus/GDIPlus.asp > Is there something else you think that would be useful that is in > GDI+f or drawing bar buttons or bar or menus backgrounds?? No, not really. But being able to embed IWebBrowser2 in bars could be interesting. Honestly I'd normally prefer anything but IE (way too many bugs and quirks) and I'd once asked Alan that if it would be possible to embed Gecko (Mozilla's engine) in PP bars. What I wanted was to have desktop widgets and more flexibility in UI design. IIRC he had said under Windows Gecko is not easy to embed as IE; well it was no big surprise! Why IE then? Because it also supports PNGs, and stuff like JavaScript, XML and CSS (although it is the *biggest* cause of headache for webdevelopers), and it's ubiquitous, unlike GDI+. With IE, I could program an analog JavaScript clock, pack it into a PP bar and pin it to the desktop. Or I could use some XSLT to put the latest feeds and blogs right onto my desktop (I had once done a reader for PP but it needed PHP). Or I could use HTML/JS to have a units converter, file uploader, graph plotter, weather info bar, etc pp. Basically we'd need only the standard functions of IWebBrowser2, but no complicated methods to interact with the browser. A lot can be achieved with win.sendkeys and friends too. Maybe I'm asking for an impossible thing in all my naivity, well, what do you think? Cü Attention: PowerPro's Web site has moved: http://www.ppro.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
