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4/12/2001 11:20:12 PM:Pure
I hope you guys/gals all love this
code. If you have any questions
comments don't be afraid to post them.
If you use the program please vote for
it, it always makes authors feel good
:) and encourages them to release more
stuff!
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4/13/2001 2:29:23 AM:Edwin Vermeer
You get 5 globes from me. I will
definitely use this in one of my
applications. Maybe you have an answer
to a similar problem that I have. I
have an application (in Dutch, see nice
screenshots at
http://www.beursmonitor.com) with does
a lot with stock quotes (including a
couple of tickertapes) Using your code
for an other tickertape would be a nice
extra. Currently I have a tickertape
which is using a timer to reposition a
form over the titlebar of any active
application. This is disturbed a bit
when the processor is 100% occupied. I
already tried the SetParent function
but this does not work (MSDN tells me:
The new parent window and the child
window must belong to the same
application) Zo how come your's is
working? One other thing: You can make
the scrolling text look very nice by
using a very easy to use textanimation
control I wrote. Just have a look at
http://www.planet-source-code.com/xq/ASP
/txtCodeId.14615/lngWId.1/qx/vb/scripts/
ShowCode.htm
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4/13/2001 3:27:36 AM:Pure
Well that's because the MSDN
information is wrong :). It works
because my application is not it's own
parent but a child of another window
this allows the main application to be
able to send the window the calls to
change the text resize the lables ect.
You'll run into a problem if you try to
take a child form and set it's parent
to 0 and try to make it it's own
parent. It will work but it will
effectivly sever the link between the
actually running program and the
graphical window. So nothing will
update and your program will crash.
Thanx for the scrolling text thing by
the way :). Am I understanding you
right that your positioning the form
over the titbar area to display info?
What Information are you displaying?
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4/13/2001 3:29:13 AM:Jay
I have an Idea..
Have your form
watch for the currently active window
as it does now second have it check to
see if the window state is not
minimized if its not minimized then the
person can see the title bar have the
form then position itself over the
titlebar. Now when the form is
minimized or losses focus the form will
either move to the next active window
or hide while the form is minimized.
This will help a little in cutting down
on resources. On the other hand if
it's just text you want displayed you
could just change the caption of the
currently active window to that of your
text.. not sur eif this will do what
you want but if you need help or if im
just not egttig what your saying e-mail
me at nemopsj@aol.com I'll try to help
you out.
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4/13/2001 8:10:12 AM:Mark Robert Strange
You gotta love this...5 globes all the
way.
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4/13/2001 10:40:15 AM:Edwin Vermeer
Thanks for the info. I will defenitely
try this. I am using it in combination
with the textanimation control to
display the current stock quotes in the
titlebar of the active application.
When I will get it to work as a child
form I will strip it form my
application and post it on PSC.
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4/13/2001 11:10:54 AM:oSiruS2685
All I gotta say is that this is sweet.
Definitely a 5er.
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4/17/2001 2:19:16 AM:Edwin Vermeer
Hi, I tried the setparent but then even
if i set the window to the topmost it
wil be displayed behind the titlebar.
So i don't thinkt that a parent child
relationship will work in my case. The
second thing that i tried was hooking
into the paint function of the
application by using the lpPrevWndProc
= apiSetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_WNDPROC,
AddrOf(strFunctionName)) (This is the
SetWindowLongA in user32) But this wil
return an access denied error. So I am
back to the beginning. Does somebody
have an idea how i can paint into the
titlebar of any application?
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4/17/2001 2:06:58 PM:Pure
You know there is a way... You have to
search for "Animated Title bar". This
is what I found it animates the title
bar with a picture but im sure with
some tinkering/Canimbalising you can
figure out how to get it to
work.
"http://www.planetsourcecode.co
m/xq/ASP/txtCodeId.10295/lngWId.1/qx/vb/
scripts/ShowCode.htm"
p.s. To all
those who enjoy my systray program I'm
adding a feature to expand the systray
so it's large enough to hold whatever
you want whilst also resizing the rest
of the task bar so everything fits!
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4/18/2001 2:52:32 AM:Edwin Vermeer
Hi, As you can see the titlebar app
is using the SetWindowLong and that
will only work for the current
application and i want to do this for
all applications that are running.
That new feature sounds good!
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4/18/2001 5:21:43 PM:Pure
Why does it need to be for all
windows... that WILL eat up processing
plus it's impracticle. I mean the
currently active window will be the
only one the user is looking at or at
least the only one he will be paying
attention too. So having it on all the
others is pointless. Well at least in
my mind.
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4/22/2001 11:03:48 PM:Anthony
This is nice, it would be cool if you
could get the number of icons there
before so that way you can have kinda a
standard size like I would like mine to
always be 6 icons big or something no
matter how much they have
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4/23/2001 4:04:38 PM:Pure
Good Idea, I'll add that
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