PureCOLOR library : coloring gadgets (and much more)

drahneir · Post by **drahneir** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:02 am

Hello,

in my application I have two buttons which are normally disabled. In this state the button text can be seen. But this is true only when the system colors are used. When I set the text color to another value, the color of the button surface changes to dark gray and the text can't be seen anymore.
In this state the gadget remains even when I set it back to system colors.

gnozal · Post by **gnozal** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:46 am

drahneir wrote:When I set the text color to another value, the color of the button surface changes to dark gray and the text can't be seen anymore.

Yes, disabled colored buttons don't look very nice. It's because colored buttons are in reality imagebuttons, and PureCOLOR would have to draw another image if the button is disabled...
Two workarounds :
- hide the buttons instead of disabling them
- clear the colors for disabled buttons : they will look like normal disabled buttons

drahneir · Post by **drahneir** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:55 am

I have edited my mail, perhaps you haven't seen the last sentence.
When the button is set back to system colors, the disabled button keeps its ugly appearance.

drahneir · Post by **drahneir** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:38 pm

Forget my last mail, with ClearGadgetColor it works.
Thanks for your help.

gnozal · Post by **gnozal** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:42 pm

drahneir wrote:I have edited my mail, perhaps you haven't seen the last sentence.
When the button is set back to system colors, the disabled button keeps its ugly appearance.

When I say clear colors, I mean use PureCOLOR_ClearGadgetColor() and not setting system colors.

byo · Post by **byo** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:17 am

Hi, Gnozal.

I think I may have found a bug (maybe not).

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If OpenWindow(0, #PB_Ignore, #PB_Ignore, 320, 200, "test", #PB_Window_SystemMenu | #PB_Window_ScreenCentered)
	If CreateGadgetList(WindowID(0))
		TextGadget(0, 50, 50, 200, 20, "this is a normal text gadget")
		TextGadget(1, 50, 100, 200, 20, "this is a text gadget with PureCOLOR")
		ButtonGadget(2, 50, 150, 100, 20, "Click here")
	EndIf
EndIf

PureCOLOR_SetGadgetColor(1, RGB(0,0,100), #PureCOLOR_DontSetBackColor)

Repeat
	wEvent = WaitWindowEvent(10)
	
	Select wEvent
		Case #PB_Event_CloseWindow
			Fim = #True
			
		Case #PB_Event_Gadget
			
			Select EventGadget()
				Case 2
					SetGadgetText(0, "this text was changed correctly!")
					SetGadgetText(1, "this text was not changed correctly!")
			EndSelect
			
	EndSelect

Until Fim

In the above code, the second text gadget is not redrawn correctly (at least on my machine). Is this a normal behaviour?

Thanks for such wonderful contributions.

gnozal · Post by **gnozal** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:57 am

byo wrote:Hi, Gnozal.
I think I may have found a bug (maybe not).
In the above code, the second text gadget is not redrawn correctly (at least on my machine). Is this a normal behaviour?

It's an expected behaviour as you have defined #PureCOLOR_DontSetBackColor as backcolor : this makes the gadget transparent, so it doesn't erase the previous text.
Here is a workaround :

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...
      Select EventGadget() 
        Case 2 
          SetGadgetText(0, "this text was changed correctly!") 
          SetGadgetText(1, "this text was not changed correctly!") 
          RedrawWindow_(WindowID(0), 0, 0, #RDW_ERASE | #RDW_FRAME | #RDW_INVALIDATE | #RDW_ALLCHILDREN	)
      EndSelect 
...

If you don't need a transparent background but only the background system color, use #PureCOLOR_SystemColor.

gnozal · Post by **gnozal** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 11:44 am

Update (all PB versions)

Changes :
- menu functions rewritten : the old functions are gone, replaced by new ones. New feature : icon support.
See PureCOLOR_Test_13.pb for a code example.

byo · Post by **byo** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 7:29 pm

Thanks a lot, gnozal. I see now.
That's a nifty workaround.

And menu with icons... Great!

byo · Post by **byo** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:13 pm

Gnozal,

with that workaround, I'm seeing some flickering when all the window is being updated. Is there a way to update only the region of the textgadget reducing the flcikering?

I'm using:

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GetWindowRect_(GadgetID(0), rect)

to capture the textgadget's rect. How can I update only this rect using the RedrawWindow procedure?

Thanks a lot for the effort you put into your userlibs/code.

srod · Post by **srod** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:23 pm

InvalidateRect_()

byo · Post by **byo** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:58 pm

It's not working here:

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SetGadgetText(#txDicas, dica)
InvalidateRect_(WindowID(#wMain), rect, #True)

Unless there's something else to be done or I'm doing something wrong.

Thanks for the fast reply.

srod · Post by **srod** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 10:04 pm

Well, I'm not really sure what you're doing but, if I was just wishing to re-paint a text gadget I would probably (though not always) use :

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InvalidateRect_(GadgetID(#txtGadget), 0, #TRUE)

You may need to add :

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UpdateWindow_(GadgetID(#txtGadget))

It all depends on what you're trying to do? If it is to stop flicker when updating the main window then you can try setting the #WS_CLIPCHILDREN style bit of the main window etc. There are all kinds of tricks to employ when attempting to reduce flicker and it all depends on individual circumstances whether any single 'trick' will make any difference etc.

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 5:37 am

Gnozal... I would like to buy you a beer!!!

PB · Post by PB » Sun Nov 25, 2007 7:02 am

> PB4.1x : http://freenet-homepage.de/gnozal/PureCOLOR__.zip

Link doesn't work. And neither does the 4.1x link on your home page at
http://freenet-homepage.de/gnozal/ .

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