cCoolScrollbars is a little class which will let you customize (in fact, "overpaint") built-in scrollbars appearance. Two modes: Flat and Custom-Draw. For more information read class' comments and have a look at given URL to know how this SHOULD be achieved. // Need to register SubclassingSink.tlb __________________________________________________ Update Dec 14th: Support for 'drop-down' windows. Added basic demo classes: cFlatCombo and cFlatImageCombo.
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looool, Carles! ;-)))) Self starting a competition with Vlad and having the project nearly ready in the pocket ;-))) btw: Code is great again and the 5 ***** more than earned. This was really one of the last open points and I hope it will be often used in ucs to have state of the art scrollbars. Many thanks and regards - LiTe (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
After a closer look: UPS! This was MUCH more than a two nights session ... ! I hate this metrics calculations, too. And my grats to your ShiftColor() function: Improvement is simple. But I waste lot of time thinking about to make it better and didn't get the trick... Shame on me ;-) (The Kolumbus-egg effect) ____ The Catch22 article is impressive. We should have a VB6 forum with this design possibilities and quality articles... (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Self starting a competition with Vlad? Never! His lives in another world :-) I started this months ago as part of a bigger project (ucSkin). But it has become too large to offer it as a usercontrol (currently more than 4500 lines). It would be better to pack it in a dll. Also, this project does not support form not-client area (caption + menu bar) nor menus. It's simply a basic 3D-soft skin for almost all VB6 controls... And one of the problems is (precisely) what Vlad has solved in his last post: 'rendering' of VB static (windowless) controls, and this involves hooking API functions. This is the reason I've talked about scrollbars skinning: do it in the right way would require that technique.
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Carles, i am really looking forward to this ucSkin library. Can you give more information on this? How will resizing work for forms? You should consider getting a website of your own to keep better control of version updates and such like (articles, forums, etc).
I will happily design and host a website for you. Please get back to me :) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Nide work Carles, as always! 5 globes from me. May I report one bug with Test2 (w/ Comboboxes)? When ListBox is droped down and we are using mouse scroll button,(scroll down without using the scrollbar) the scrollbar doesn't refresh/move with action. Also the ImageCombo. Thx for sharing! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Clean consise code and does what it says efficiently. I really like your coding style. Thanks for the great code. 5 from me (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I just had a chance to look it and I was amazed , excellent!. Some time ago I tried the same but never achieved the same results because of the d@mn size calculations, and always have been asking my self if scrollbars can be repainted (instead of overlap another window, has I was doing it too) and how windows xp does to skin static windows (ScrollBars, Labels, Etc) for themed windows, has it paint pictures (themes) over them ? any idea Carles. Cheers
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Is it possible to paste pictures, rather than draw lines, arrows and rectangles?
thanx (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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