CustomButtons

[Fangbeast]

Thanks for this NetMaestro. I've been wanting custom buttons for absolutely years. Square ones get very boring after a while (grin). Now I am going to try all sorts of stuff (pant, pant).

[blueznl]

Regardless, I wonder if there's any way to "convert" old libs to be current,
without the source? Has anyone ever tried to reverse-engineer them, or
anything like that? There must be something that can be done for truly
abandoned libs.

There actually is a way. Most of these libs contain a set of functions (pooh!) and what you could do is fire up your old compiler, create a 'wrapper' in regular purebasic, then turn the result into a DLL.

That DLL will then work with any later version of PureBasic.

Okay, sounds great, but I admit I never tried this myself

[byo]

But how, without the source?

[Flaming Amoeba]

For what blueznl described, you wouldn't need the source.

[netmaestro]

I've done it before. You load the old compiler with the old compiled lib and write a dll that calls the lib's functions and returns to the calling program what the lib gives to it. It's a sound concept and usually works. It's a wrapper of sorts.

[Flaming Amoeba]

Now the hard part is learning how to make decent looking graphics to use for custom buttons

[mrjiles]

If you create a custom button that opens another window with a custom button, when the second window closes the original custom button goes wacky. Any ideas?

[netmaestro]

Fixed. See updated topic in T&T forum.

[atomo]

Hi, thanks for your lib but i can't use it with purebasic 4.20, i have a POLINK error : unresolved external symbol 'PB_Delay'.

[netmaestro]

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=29712

[atomo]

thanks it work and sorry