Shoutbox

Ok, I'm adding 6 to the width and 32 to the height, which counter-acts the borders.  Seems to work great!

One other thing...  is there a way to convert dialog units to pixels, and back again?

I think it's all dependant on screen resolution and some other factors, including font from what I've read, but the topics mostly all relate to VB and C++...

EDIT: http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=83555 <-- Might Help

Looks a bit confusing... 

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Originally posted by MSDN
MapDialogRect: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms645502.aspx

The MapDialogRect function converts the specified dialog box units to screen units (pixels). The function replaces the coordinates in the specified RECT structure with the converted coordinates, which allows the structure to be used to create a dialog box or position a control within a dialog box.

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I need to convert pixels to dialog units, not dialog units to pixels...

I didn't check, but I thought maybe you could reverse the process?

If this is to convert the units from pixels (from the window) to dialog units (inside the xml), then can't you just force the measurements in pixels? I know it's probably not quite what you want, but it's guaranteed to look the same and will save having to add functions or classes to figure it out for you.

That's what I've thought about doing.  The user can always change it to dialog units if they want, but if they use the builder, then it'll have to be in pixels. 



That's what the builder will look like.    Suggestions welcome.

Edit: I really doubt the feasibility of this, but I'm going to ask anyway.  Is there a way of working out the co-ordinates of a rectangle drawn with the mouse onto a Plus! window?  Would this need a certain control?  If this isn't possible, would I be able to record two clicks (one for the top-left, one for the bottom-right)?

Looks great!

Keep up the good work!

T-PO

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Originally posted by whiz
Edit: I really doubt the feasibility of this, but I'm going to ask anyway.  Is there a way of working out the co-ordinates of a rectangle drawn with the mouse onto a Plus! window?  Would this need a certain control?  If this isn't possible, would I be able to record two clicks (one for the top-left, one for the bottom-right)?

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It certainly should be possible. You would have to deal with drawing the rectangle yourself using GDI or whatever, but you would basically just have to handle mouse messages (WM_LBUTTONDOWN,WM_MOUSEMOVE,etc.) and redraw the rectangle each time. Unfortunately there's no magic control that does this for you that I know of, but it shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Hmm...    I'll have to think about it.  For now, I need some sleep and preparation for exams. 

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Originally posted by whiz
Edit: I really doubt the feasibility of this, but I'm going to ask anyway.  Is there a way of working out the co-ordinates of a rectangle drawn with the mouse onto a Plus! window?  Would this need a certain control?  If this isn't possible, would I be able to record two clicks (one for the top-left, one for the bottom-right)?

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Screenshot Sender has this capability for sending the Selected Area.

Have a look at the code: http://beta.screenshotsender.com/code/WindowHandl...ectArea_handler.js
And the Window: http://beta.screenshotsender.com/code/Languages/en/SelectArea.xml

Cheers!

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Originally posted by matty
Screenshot Sender has this capability for sending the Selected Area.

Have a look at the code: http://beta.screenshotsender.com/code/WindowHandl...ectArea_handler.js
And the Window: http://beta.screenshotsender.com/code/Languages/en/SelectArea.xml

Cheers!

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I've had a look at the two files, but I'm not exactly sure how to implement it.  How would I be able to draw a rectangle over a Plus! window, and get the left/top/width/height values in relation to that window?