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CHAMELEON BUTTON 2.0.6 B - the best command button ever strikes back! (UPDATED, BRANCH)
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THE GREAT CHAMELEON BUTTON STRIKES BACK!!!
THIS TIME WITH LOADS OF NEW FEATURES ADDED!
IT NOW HAS 13 DIFFERENT BUTTON STYLES, SUPPORTS PICTURES, FONT EFFECTS AND MUCH MORE!
SEVERAL BUGS HAVE BEEN CORRECTED AND A LOT OF FIXES WERE DONE TO THE CODE.
ONCE YOU TRY IT, YOU WILL NEVER WANT ANYTHING ELSE THAN THIS!
ADD STYLE TO YOUR APPLICATIONS, ADD VALUE TO THEM, BUILD MARVELOUS USER INTERFACES AND IMPRESS THE USERS OF YOUR PROGRAM.
HAVE FUN!!!
UPDATE: Some bugs/flaws fixed in ver 2.0.5 & 2.0.6
JUNE 08, 2003 >> A BRANCHED VERSION HAS BEEN POSTED TO FIX SOME CRITICAL BUGS, THIS IS STILL FOR NO COMMERCIAL USE.
MORE INFO AT http://gonchuki.8m.com
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 8/1/2002 2:56:18 AM: Al
Loved your last submission and this makes it even better.
GREAT work mate! 5 Stars
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8/1/2002 3:24:57 AM: Thushan Fernando
awesome work... please read teh email I sent you regarding some 'legal' matters;)
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8/1/2002 4:31:59 AM: Steve
5 globes from me... However, you might improve this:
When you set a button's CheckBoxBehaviour to 'True' and change the value of the button by code, the button does not reflect the changed state - you must move to mouse over the button in order to refresh its value:
Example:
Create a button (TestButton1) with CheckBoxBehaviour=True
Create another button (TestButton2) and include this code to the button's click event:
if TestButton1.Value=true then TestButton1.Value=false else TestButton1.Value=true
You'll see that TestButton1 does not update to show the changed value ...
You should improve the code in order to use 2 or more 'CheckBox' buttons which are linked to each other's value ...
Steve
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8/1/2002 4:33:28 AM: Joe
Excellent button, keep up the good work!!
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8/1/2002 4:38:34 AM: Carles P.V.
Qué podría decir sino excelente?
Por supuesto puedes decir con toda seguridad y tranquilidad que se trata del mejor 'command button'.
Great work.
Saludos,
Carlos.
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8/1/2002 5:01:54 AM: ShaDoWsToRmEr
Contact me at shadowstormer@hotmail.com
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8/1/2002 7:40:58 AM: claude
Excellent work. Can I use your work in my application ? and how ? In my project vb, how I can do to apply the files included in the zip ? thanks.
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8/1/2002 11:07:16 AM: uZiGuLa
hi everyone
i tried with the test of steve (two check box buttons)and i made this change in your control Gonchuki, the property Value:
Public Property Let Value(ByVal newValue As Boolean)
cValue = newValue
Call Redraw(0, True) 'lastStat here is te change
UserControl.Refresh
PropertyChanged "VALUE"
RaiseEvent Click
well, finally trigger the click event, to simulate a complete command button behavior
anyway great piece of code, five from me
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8/1/2002 12:45:43 PM: Steve
@uZiGuLa:
perfect - now it works as it should ...
Steve
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8/1/2002 12:59:42 PM: Steve
@uZiGuLa:
one additional note: remove the
RaiseEvent Click
from the "Public Property Let Value" otherwise the code might get into an endless loop ...
Steve
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8/1/2002 1:27:15 PM: gonchuki_r
Thanks everyone!
Specially Steve for discovering this bug that slipped out in the control... well this feature is since 2.0.2 so it's a new introduced bug.
ZIP file was updated with this and other fix.
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8/1/2002 1:34:30 PM: gonchuki_
Steve: i noted this problem in uZiGula's code and not included it in the patch. thx again.
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8/1/2002 5:20:59 PM: Steve
gonchuki:
One minor thing I do not like: when you set a button to be disabled, the picture looks really ugly ... I did not check the code, so I do not know what you actually do with the image when it's disabled, but it does not look like it's converted to greyscale ...
actually it looks like it is reduced to 2 colors, which makes it look very ugly ...
Can't you change the code to convert the image to a 'real' grayscale?
Just an idea ... that would make your control almost PERFECT!
:-)
Steve
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8/1/2002 6:50:56 PM: gonchuki_
Steve: i don't know what you mean with this, the disabled pictures are created on the fly using the same algorithm windows uses internally, but the way i use is faster since i do not depend upon several BitBlt calls... please specify better your problem.
The image is not greyscaled, it's monochromed and painted using a mask color to make that emboss effect.
gonchuki
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8/2/2002 3:49:29 AM: Steve
gonchuki:
you'll find a screenshot of what I mean here:
http://home.wtal.de/rlinke/example.gif
Steve
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8/2/2002 10:45:50 AM: Paul Caton
Seems functional, you get a *****
I only looked at the xp button as that's what interests me and I noticed that you're doing a fair bit of overdraw on the gradient you'd save a bit with...
For i = 3 To (He - 4)
DrawLine 3, i, Wi - 3, i, ...
Next
Also, unless you've a good reason not to.. I would've Set Autoredraw = False, done all my drawing into a memDC and blitted the memDC to the control hDC on the Paint event.
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8/2/2002 10:48:52 AM: uZiGuLa
Steve:
your right, about my bug, today i note this mistake.
thank's
Gonchuki: I think that the problem is the MaskColor Property, because if I Change the Window Color Configuration and I use maskcolor property, the efect whe the control is show enabled or disabled is ugly... i guess that steve talin about it too
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8/2/2002 1:10:27 PM: Ross
Great stuff: Thanks for sharing!!
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8/2/2002 4:35:48 PM: Steve
uZiGuLa:
Gonchuki will work on the disabled picture thingie ... he said that he will make the code grayscale pictures when a button is disabled. Currently the code just 'monochromes' them, which makes them look so ugly ...
Steve
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8/2/2002 6:15:27 PM: Popescu Constantin
no thing to say
5 from me
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8/2/2002 7:45:52 PM: El CZAR
Buen trabajo amigo.. soy de cruzando el charco.. lastima q los contagiamos .. jeje--
salu2
amigo... uruguayo..
viva argentina
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8/2/2002 10:33:55 PM: gonchuki_
el problema es que les copiamos lo malo...
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8/2/2002 10:41:46 PM: gonchuki_
NEW UPDATE!!! TWO BUGS FIXED, THANKS AGAIN TO STEVE. XP BUTTON SHOULD NOW SHOW CORRECTLY THE DISABLED PICTURE...
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8/3/2002 3:57:20 AM: Thushan Fernando
thanks for the update via email man! I think all developers love this control(that includes me)!
Thanks again.
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8/3/2002 3:58:12 AM: Steve
gonchuki_:
YES - you did it. Now the disabled buttons look nice. Thanks for such a wonderfull control.
You're right when you say "the best command button ever" - if I could give you another 5 globes, I would ...
:-)
Steve.
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8/3/2002 9:01:57 AM: Christopher Rouse
no thing to say
5 from me
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8/3/2002 2:43:21 PM: Scott
What style is best for a flat hover toggle that DOES NOT have the lame dotted line from VB?
I suppose I will figure it out soon enough
Scott
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8/3/2002 2:48:42 PM: Scott
Your not kidding....this is the best...
I would give you another 5 globes if I could
Best Button Bar None
Scott
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8/3/2002 7:13:17 PM: Bobby A.
Sup gonchuki_
Your code is the best man keep this up yo... im lovin it and ill maybe add some new stuff too!!!
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8/3/2002 11:36:49 PM: Derris
Could you please send me the ocx at
ajderris@hotmail.com
I am very interested in the KDE 2 button because I run the system more than I do Windows. I have heard that KDE 3 is out.
Thanks
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8/4/2002 1:55:25 AM: Sum1 Cool
Unquestionably out of this world!!!
I'd give it a 6 if I could.
Keep up the good work.
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8/4/2002 10:31:04 AM: gonchuki_
XasanSoft: you seem to be the only person that dislikes the name... and the aim of this site is not to rate names, is to rate codes... pls be polite next time or i will strike you with my chameleon fury...
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8/6/2002 9:32:56 PM: Fred.Cpp
HAAAAAAAAAAA
Ya no voy a seguir con mi propio Command Button ( ISButton ), ya que este tiene todo lo que había pensado incluir :'( , pero felicidades está excelente por supuesto: *****
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8/6/2002 10:01:43 PM: Fred.Cpp
I think votes like these:
* XasanSoft
* Mummy
* David Fritts
Should be deleted. Obviously they don't have Idea what is to make an ActiveX Control or Can't read what a * means: "poor". this kind of users should donwnload and test the code before vote.
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8/8/2002 6:33:44 PM: Sebastian
Great code!! Thank you very much.
5 stars for me.
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8/9/2002 7:39:36 AM: Ozan Yasin Dogan
Gonchuki, you did a very good job my friend, i liked your style.. Many thanks..
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8/10/2002 12:14:02 PM: Vinchenzo
Again a quality control! Impressive! Keep up good work! 5 globes
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8/11/2002 10:07:45 PM: The New iSoftware Company!
I want to help port to VB.NET. Email me.
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8/11/2002 10:07:58 PM: The New iSoftware Company!
I want to help port to VB.NET. Email me, please.
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8/13/2002 11:07:46 AM: Ronnie
Very Cool! My current favorite code example! I've been turning on all my friends to this one. I especially like the checkbox behavior 5 Stars
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8/13/2002 1:21:55 PM: The New iSoftware Company!
Please tell me how you do that spec. shadow on the office xp button. Is there any api? Email.
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8/13/2002 1:26:27 PM: The New iSoftware Company!
I mean the drop shadow thing. I need this badly.
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8/13/2002 1:39:22 PM: The New iSoftware Company!
Sorry, but may I have the secrect color formula for the office xp?
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8/13/2002 3:15:52 PM: Fred.Cpp
everything Is in the code ;)
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8/13/2002 7:47:45 PM: The New iSoftware Company!
Its one big long chunk. I cant place it.
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8/13/2002 11:24:18 PM: Sebastian
Ahora vi el código y está muy bueno. Felicitaciones desde Córdoba, Argentina. Tengo algunas preguntas para hacerte sobre él, legales y técnicas. Tenés algun problema de contestarlas??
Saludos y gracias
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8/15/2002 3:10:35 PM: Michael Aragon
awesome work , great code and syntax. 5 globes!
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8/16/2002 1:04:21 AM: paul muaratua
it is very good
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8/19/2002 12:42:31 PM: Phantom Man
Nice Control!
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8/21/2002 3:35:24 AM: Tuk
Nice code gonchuki, thanks for posting it here.
Saludos desde buenos aires.
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8/21/2002 9:33:42 AM: Neal
Truly wonderful.
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8/26/2002 8:35:18 AM: tibisan
wow! how did i missed this? 5G's.
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8/27/2002 5:10:21 PM: Todd Fabacher
Great control. I gave it 5*. But, if the picture is an icon, it is changing the color a bit around the image. Thus the icon is not transparent. Is it that I have not set a mask color? I should not have to, correct? Also you use the timer on mouse move, I might have a better idea for you - Timers use big resources. Email me and I will sent the code to you.
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9/2/2002 10:27:56 AM: The New iSoftware Company!
I got my office xp toolbar shadow to work in GDI+!
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9/30/2002 11:52:53 AM:
Gonchuki :
Congratulations for your code.
It's very beatiful and functional.
But I have a problem : I use VB 5 with Win 98 Second Edition and in my projects, the transparent button does not work correctly. What I do wrong ?
A america do sul é soberana, viva o Uruguai, viva o Brasil.
Saludos,
Heilan Percio
PS : Sorry for my poor english.
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10/15/2002 8:38:28 PM: JC Ford
I simply LOVE this control!
Is there a way to turn off the border that shows up when I hover over an XP Style button?
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10/15/2002 8:44:03 PM: JC Ford
Bah. Ignore my last message. I just disabled the code that draws the border and all's well.
One nit to pick though. When the 'Default' property is changed at runtime, the button does not redraw to show the focus rectangle. This is inconsistent with standard buttons.
Thanks for all your hard work on this control! It really is excellent!
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10/16/2002 4:52:09 PM: JC Ford
Clarification of my last post.
These steps should allow you to recreate the problem:
1) Place multiple buttons on a form with a custom color scheme
2) Set one of those buttons Default = True
3) put another control (a textbox for instance) on the form
4) set the tab order so that the textbox has focus when the form loads and the next button in the tab order is NOT the one with Default = True
Run the form and use the tab key to navigate. You'll notice that the focus rectangle on the Default button DOES NOT go away when one of the other buttons gets focus, but if you mouse over the Default button it will reset.
I fixed this by making a change in the UserControl_AmbientChanged event. Simply move the call to the Redraw subroutine outside the if statement so that it executes even if the button has a custom color scheme (the colors still only get reset if ColorScheme <> Custom)
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10/16/2002 4:54:00 PM: JC Ford
One more tip!
Set the 'Procedure ID' for the Caption property so that the button's caption automatically updates when you change the property in the property pallette...a rather trivial feature, but a nice one nonetheless.
1) When viewing the code for the control, click Tools/Procedure Attributes.
2) Choose the 'Caption' property in the list at the top of the dialog.
3) Click 'Advanced >>' to display more settings
4) Choose 'Caption' from the Procedure ID dropdown box and click Ok
Now the Caption updates automatically as you type it!
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10/18/2002 11:39:11 AM: gonchuki
wow! thanks for the tips, you solved a problem i had for a long time... i had the 2.0.7 version ready to be launched, but this tips make it deserve a new 2.0.8 version.
If anyone wants to know, version 2.0.8 has a lot of code optimizations and it is now smaller and faster than ever!
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10/19/2002 2:29:17 AM:
Hi There are two problems over here one is when we disable the 11- Transaparent button it changes the color of the button to black color and it is very horrible, can u provide the same facility which u have provided to Windows XP button it is looking good when it is disabled.
Secondly Major thing you are using timer to track the mouse out events and as i using near about 40 button in problem and as your timer is set to 3 milliseconds refresh, it is a heavy load on the program refreshing all the 40 buttons, Is it possible for you to provide mouse out properties so that we can avoid this timer which drastically increases the performance.
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10/20/2002 4:08:39 PM: gonchuki
I havent faced this problem with the transparent button... may be it is a refresh problem???
Second thing, the timer is enabled ONLY when you are over the button, so at most there will be ONE timer enabled at a time. There is no performance impact on this, and the only better approach for MouseOver/MouseOut is to use subclassing... and this could easily lead you into an instant crash if by mistake you press the End button...
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10/24/2002 1:31:08 PM: JC Ford
gonchuki, I have a solution to the mouseover/mouseout that does not involve a timer, but it's a bit too large to post here.
Drop me an email and I'll be happy to share:
johncford (at) myrealbox.com
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10/30/2002 1:30:44 PM: Thraka
Great Job.. 5 *!!
Where can I get the 2.0.8 Version? Thanks!
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11/3/2002 1:40:36 AM: DarkMercenary44
This button is everything I've ever wanted, great great job. You are the ONLY person I have ever seen that made the OfficeXP style buttons that acted like a checkbox and would keep the blue border around it when selected...I'm very impressed thank you for this great control
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11/4/2002 8:07:27 AM:
Nice code. I have learned a lot from it.
Thanks and 5 globes from me!
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11/4/2002 8:14:49 AM: Pio
very nice
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11/4/2002 10:47:59 AM: tibisan
thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!thank you!
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11/4/2002 12:09:53 PM:
Great code! However, I am just a beginner and would like to know if you could please direct me to some good VB books to learn from or perhaps, a website with a lot of tutorials. Thanks
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11/4/2002 2:28:18 PM: Fatbob
Awesome code!
Can someone please tell me how to compile this into an ocx?
Thanks!
gonchuki, keep up the good work. Looking forward to 2.0.8!
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11/4/2002 3:00:03 PM: Fatbob
Never mind. I simply added the user control to my project.
Simply awesome control!
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11/4/2002 11:42:50 PM:
5 from me !!! wish I could give you 50... developers like you are pride for us... keep up the good work.
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11/5/2002 6:45:18 AM: tibisan
i forgot to vote. i'll do it now. u might wanna check the kde model in the toolbar control. when i hover over the buttons, it eats all my system resources. i think u got a memory leak in there, coz windowz flashes the white window telling me that the system is "dangerously low on resources" and urging me to close window after window.
it happens only in the kde model. i also have a nice button model, easy to make by programatic means. do u want me to sent it to u? nice work anyway.
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11/5/2002 3:31:17 PM: gonchuki
GOOD NEWS!
You can get the compiled OCX version of Chameleon Button 2.0.8 from: http://usuarios.lycos.es/gonchuki/chameleonButtonOCX.zip
Source code will not be released for now, but the same license rules apply for this OCX version... ask if you are in doubt of what you can do with it.
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11/6/2002 6:05:45 PM:
very sweet. thanks.
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11/9/2002 9:21:47 PM: Dazz
Do i have permission to post updates?? on this awesome control???
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11/30/2002 6:17:54 PM: Vlad Vissoultchev
do you knwo about this http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=4623 :-))) thought you might like to NOT stay anonymous anymore
HTH,
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12/1/2002 10:35:58 AM: gonchuki
i knew about that... it was me the one who posted it there... but seems they changed the entry since it had the same title and description as in PSC...
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12/19/2002 9:27:06 AM: The New iSoftware Company!
When are you providing an update?
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12/20/2002 6:30:10 AM:
I've followed this code from the start and it just gets better and better. Will you be posting any more updates ?? P.s. what are your copyright rules regaring this code ..
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12/26/2002 4:17:04 AM:
Great code!
cbJava.PictureNormal = "template.ico"
Err:
Invalid use of property
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12/31/2002 12:10:03 PM: JC Ford
try this:
set cbJava.PictureNormal = LoadPicture("template.ico")
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1/2/2003 9:51:34 AM: EightySoftware
I Hate to beg.. but here goes
Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, can you release the source for the latest incarnation.. you have fixed bugs etc from 2.06 and its nearly a whole year now..
So please release the code
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1/4/2003 12:30:02 AM:
hi gonchuki
I'm Chinese and I'm using your chameleonButton. It's the best button control i've used.
But i found that chameleon button not support chinese good. If use chinese characters on "Caption" property, i must add several space at the end of "Caption" string. I think the key of this problem is the "DrawText" API. So
I tried to modify the sourcecode like this:
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DrawText .hdc, elTex, LenB(StrConv(elTex, vbFromUnicode)), rc2, DT_CENTER
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So, it's work well.
Please update your sourcecode if you notice that.
I think you should update your OCX version to 2.0.9 :-)
fang.
2003-01-04 at HangZhou, China.
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1/4/2003 5:40:25 PM: suncoast
Great idea! I did run into a wierd situation though. I have a form with a lot of controls on it and a lot of buttons. I created one button and shaped it the way I want then copied it and pasted it, changing the name, caption and index accordingly. I saved the project and all the buttons got hash marks across it. No problem. When I ran the program, some of the buttons reverted to Windows 32-bit and the captions changed on some of them. I fixed the buttons, saved the project and it happened again.
I fixed them again and ran the program again, this time without saving it and it was fine. I then saved the project and ran it and it was fine after that.
Anybody else come across this?
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1/4/2003 5:51:10 PM: suncoast
A couple of other things I noticed. If I changed the button to disabled and save the project then run it, the buttons are enabled again. If I disable them again, run the project without saving they remain disabled. I stop the application and save the project and they stay disabled.
Why is this happening? It seems to me I have to run the project first without saving it. Then stop the application and then save it. If I don't do this, the buttons change to Windows 32-bit, the captions change, and they become enabled again. There may be other quirks I haven't uncovered yet because I haven't used it much.
Can you shed some light on this?
Thanks!
Steve
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1/6/2003 9:02:51 AM:
Steve,
I was having problems myself (buttons reverting to Win32 style), but not when running within the IDE, which is probably what you're talking about. I couldn't duplicate your problems there. BUT, if you happen to mean trying to run the *compiled* exe, and you let PDWizard do the compile, then yes, I was seeing the same sort of weird behavior. When I tred a similar control I had downloaded and ran across the same sort of thing, I finally figured out it was PDWizard. As long as you make the exe (i.e. "File->Make Project1.exe") THEN run PDWizard (don't let PDWizard do the compile), the buttons work as they should when you run the exe. I think this is a bug in PDWizard since I had the same problem with the other control. Don't know if this will help you, but just in case. Wouldn't want anyone else banging their head over this like I did!
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1/15/2003 10:08:44 PM:
Thank you very much , i very like this program. but i am not an expert programmer, any one who can help me to confile this to OCX. when i confile i always encouter "No public usercontrol detected". please help thanks.
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1/19/2003 11:21:29 PM:
Great job man! Well done. Keep it up.
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1/22/2003 7:53:04 AM:
Great Control!
But when I'm programming I can't
use LEFT(text,x) anymore.
RIGHT(text,x) does work !!!
Anyone familiar with this ???
Please Help !!!
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3/5/2003 2:39:02 PM:
Genial!, pero sigue apareciendo problemas con el refresco (2.0.6) El boton vuelve al formato windows normal y se borra el Caption. ¿sabes porque?
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3/24/2003 5:51:19 PM:
I luv ur work man, u earned the eXcellent grade...keep up the good work... ;-)
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4/24/2003 12:13:10 AM:
*** I M P R E S I O N A N T E ***
Un trabajo muy bien logrado.
Felicitaciones de otro MADE IN URUGUAY. =)
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4/29/2003 12:11:07 PM:
Great Job :)
what about a .net port?
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6/12/2003 10:01:40 AM: Joakim Stai
que bonito este chameleon button.. es muy útil y todo, hace miraculos en cualquier programa. a tip for all who want real xp style buttons: the official size of the xp button is 1125*345 twips. if you want to know more about windows xp styles, see here: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~horton/cs305/info/wxp/default.htm
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9/9/2003 12:06:18 AM: Ariel825010106
i have to say that i like this control, and u looks cool too :) i hope we can meet each other in person :) [actually i admire your work :)]
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9/19/2003 7:47:45 PM: Patrick Weber
Very Very nice. 5 from me. Just a word to the wise. It would make it alot easier if you could submit the zip file as .zip instead of .0 thanks. Patrick
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10/11/2003 12:37:31 AM:
Hi! I used your control in my vb application. I must appriciate you to develop such a wonderful button. It looks nice. I found one bug while i'm using this button,memory leak problem. If i create control in run time, i'm getting out of memeory,cannot create auto redraw image,automation errors. So, you need to fix this bug.
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10/11/2003 5:31:01 AM:
hi!
how to add image to chemeleon button in runtime. I tried picturenormal property, but i couldn't. is there any work around
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10/26/2003 10:07:04 PM: gonchuki_
thanks for all the long feedback list...
to change pictures you have to use the SET statement before the property you want to change.
About the memory leaks... you have been warned, this code is no more being updated so i know there should be bugs inside... but if i put that for free then it wouldn't be fair for my actual customers.
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12/14/2003 11:53:21 PM:
Excelente! O melhor Command Button que tem por aqui.
Brazil
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3/3/2004 6:20:20 PM:
The download dont work!!
but it looks excelent, and im gutted now coz i cant get it =@
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4/2/2005 8:01:48 PM: Matthew R. Usner
LaVolpe's button is better, is free, and doesn't leak.
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11/12/2005 4:33:55 AM: Hyper
5 globes here
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12/16/2005 9:55:52 PM: SdLvX
pretty buttons
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1/5/2006 8:49:52 AM: HardStream Software Development
Great control, absolutely perfect... Another 5 globes commin your way :D
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11/5/2006 5:54:04 AM: Moroco
Great Work . 5 globes and thanks .
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