More than 2 years ago I started blogging on getting VFP to have transparent windows. No, not the fully transparent ones, but the Vista like ones, where the window is transparent but the contents, including form objects, are opaque.
This was my first
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The GDI+x Samples have a form that displays a "Halo" for text. So taking that idea I adapted it for these glowing buttons.
To use these buttons you will need the GDI+x classes on the VFPX site.
http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=VFPX&title=GDIPlusX
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One of the things I wanted was to be able to drop an image object on my form, set its picture property to an image and have the image "reflection" visible, which gives a very good effect.
Well now that we have the GDI+x classes that is no longer a wish,
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I've been working on buttons recently using the GDI+x classes and there have been request for two things. 1. Transparent buttons a la Vista and TabOrder for the buttons.
As you all know the buttons are based on the GDIPLUS.vcx classlibrary - specifically
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There have been a number of requests for a tutorial on how to use the GDI+x classes and the Shiny Glass buttons. I am used to using these classes, so wrongly assumed that all users were up to speed. So I decided to fix that and post a tutorial about
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In a previous post I showed a class to generate "Aqua" buttons using GDI+x from codeplex.
This post is all about some modifications I made to that class to enable me to produce Shiny Glass Buttons. Also I did not explain the techniques in obtaining the
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The VFP Image base class now has the RotateFlip property where the image set as the Picture property can be rotated and/or flipped.
The different states for the VFP control are:
0 - Rotate0FlipNone
1 - Rotate90FlipNone
2 - Rotate180FlipNone
3 -
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Class uppdated with Builder Preview 30/09/2008
The class in the attached zip, is an example of what you can do to spruce up your application. It contains an AquaButton class which uses the Imgcanvas object from the GDI+x classes on Codeplex.
This class
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Everyone who has used XP would have seen the effect produced when a user opts to shutdown Windows XP. To see it you click the "Start" button and then select ShutDown, which brings up the windows shutdown dialog similar to the one below.The question is
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In my earlier post I showed a Lightbox class done in VFP. Mike S posed a problem:I've got one issue with it when placed on a VFP form that contains an
ActiveX control (MS webbrowser). The lightbox is not able to capture
the contents of the ActiveX,
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