full screen gui development
pt 2 ?more controls & text
welcome back! if you抮e saying 揾uh?!?then you probably haven抰 read the first part of this tutorial. please read it before continuing because we抣l be building on it.
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first up
let抯 build on our base window by adding the standard minimize, maximize/restore, and close buttons (see windowsample3 project).
we抳e added enums for the new buttons:
closebtn
minbtn
maxbtn
restorebtn
created bitmaps for them (close.bmp, minimize.bmp, maximize.bmp, and restore.bmp), and added instances of the clswindow class in the moddirectdraw module to create them:
public withevents closebutton as new clswindow
public withevents minbutton as new clswindow
public withevents maxbutton as new clswindow
public withevents restorebutton as new clswindow
notice that we抳e added withevents to the declarations. this will allow us to do things outside of the class when the control is clicked. we抣l go over this a little later.
new controls mean that we have to add them as child controls to the base window object. we抳e done this in the createwindowobjects function, setting the necessary properties for them:
with frmmain.closebutton
.objecttype = closebtn
.parentheight = frmmain.window.height
.parentwidth = frmmain.window.width
.parentx = frmmain.window.x
.parenty = frmmain.window.y
.objectsurface = objdd.createsurfacefromfile(app.path & "\close.bmp", ddsdsurf4)
.windowname = "closebtn"
end with
frmmain.window.addchild frmmain.closebutton
with frmmain.minimizebutton
.objecttype = minbtn
