[AccessD] Hiding the Access Window WAS: access xp runtime

...you're giving me heart failure today ...I e'd you a logo sample :)

William

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DWUTKA at marlow.com>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Hiding the Access Window WAS: access xp runtime


> No it isn't, you just need to have a bitmap in that shape.  Then you 
> create
> a region based on that bitmap, and set that region to your form.  Got the
> logo you want to use?
>
> Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Hindman [mailto:wdhindman at bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 2:30 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Hiding the Access Window WAS: access xp runtime
>
>
> ...yada, yada, yada code boy :)
>
> ...been doing rounded, oval, and elliptical forms for years ...I'll take a
> look at your code though and see if there's anything worth changing my
> current default sfgui module for ...but rounded forms are hardly more than 
> a
>
> toy ...what I want is to be able to take a graphic like the Texas
> Instruments logo and shape a form to fit its bounds ...that's a sight more
> complicated, eh :)
>
> William
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <DWUTKA at marlow.com>
> To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 2:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Hiding the Access Window WAS: access xp runtime
>
>
>> My my my William, maybe you should spend a little more time over here,
>> then
>> on OT! ;)
>>
>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/htdig/accessd/2004-June/025236.html
>>
>> Susan and I also co-wrote an article on shaped forms.  It's pretty simple
>> to
>> do.
>>
>> Here's some code you can drop in a form to make it 'rounded'.
>> CreateRoundRectRgn is the easiest to use if you aren't very artistic. :
>>
>> Private Declare Function CreateRoundRectRgn Lib "gdi32" (ByVal X1 As 
>> Long,
>> ByVal Y1 As Long, ByVal X2 As Long, ByVal Y2 As Long, ByVal X3 As Long,
>> ByVal Y3 As Long) As Long
>> Private Declare Function SetWindowRgn Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long,
>> ByVal hRgn As Long, ByVal bRedraw As Boolean) As Long
>> Private Declare Function DeleteObject Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hObject As Long)
>> As
>> Long
>> Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA"
>> (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As
>> Any) As Long
>> Private Declare Function ReleaseCapture Lib "user32" () As Long
>> Const intFrameWidth As Long = 350
>> Const intFrameHeight As Long = 250
>> Const intEllipseSize As Long = 70
>> Const intBorderSize As Long = 40
>> Private Sub Detail_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As
>> Single, Y As Single)
>> ReleaseCapture
>> SendMessage Me.hwnd, &HA1, 2, 0&
>> End Sub
>> Private Sub Form_Load()
>> Dim X As Long
>> X = SetThisWindowsRegion
>> SetMainWindowRegion X
>> DeleteObject X
>> End Sub
>> Private Function SetThisWindowsRegion() As Long
>> Dim intInsetFrame As Long
>> intInsetFrame = CreateRoundRectRgn(intBorderSize, intBorderSize,
>> intFrameWidth - intBorderSize, intFrameHeight - intBorderSize,
>> intEllipseSize, intEllipseSize)
>> SetThisWindowsRegion = intInsetFrame
>> End Function
>> Private Function SetMainWindowRegion(cRgn As Long)
>> Dim dwReturn As Long
>> dwReturn = SetWindowRgn(Me.hwnd, cRgn, True)
>> End Function
>>
>> Drew
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: William Hindman [mailto:wdhindman at bellsouth.net]
>> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 12:30 PM
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Hiding the Access Window WAS: access xp runtime
>>
>>
>> ...so far its a sin how well it works ...and so much for my christmas
>> weekend ...now I have to redo a major client app that I'd earlier
>> abandoned
>> this approach on ...but much appreciate the insight and code Drew :)
>>
>> ...so when you're really bored and need something to wile away your time
>> on,
>>
>> how about looking at making this all work with shaped forms ...or better
>> yet, fit a bitmap (or even better, a vector emf) ala Pedro Gil's code
>> ...now
>>
>> THAT would impress me! :)
>>
>> http://www.geocities.com/pmpg98_pt/ShapedForm.html
>>
>> William
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