Shamil Salakhetdinov
shamil-users at mns.ru
Mon Feb 16 18:36:16 CST 2004
>...love to see the results if he takes it any further :) You're welcome, William and all! :) I made it. Here are the pics of the two test cases: http://www.extvba.spb.ru/hypocycloid/fav34.jpg http://www.extvba.spb.ru/hypocycloid/fav56.jpg This is an MS Access form without any activeX etc. - the pics are drawn on the detail section surface. I use my custom C++ DLL but not for visual part of this MS Access application... Resize is still a problem. Repaint seems always work OK after minimize or making hidden/visible the form or its parts etc. I don't think I will work on fixing resize now - it was quite some free labor work and it is enough for now... I tested it on MS Win2K and MS Access 97/2000/XP. Hopefully it will work on other MS Windows/Access versions too. Of course there is some tricky hacking here but it shows itself as stable and no GPF after heavy load with all that incredibly wonderful hypocycloid graphics... Now I need volunteer testers who wanted to test this sample on: - MS Win95 - MS Win98 - MS WinNT - MS WinXP - MS Windows .NET Server and - all the versions of MS Access starting MS Access 97. I will send you an MDE version for testing purposes. I have to ask you to not redistribute this stuff until it will not be clear it works OK and until I will not publish this info on my site. I plan to do that in approx. 1 - 1.5 months - I plan to publish the sources and quite some other tricky and unique Win32 API VBA programming stuff I'm cooking here... I need to work intensively on a new project now - so there is no enough time here to continue with quick preparing of this info for publication. Mark, thanks for your proposal to play with Hypocycloids - they are fascinating! Shamil P.S. I will need only one volunteer tester for each MS Windows/MS Access version combination. I will publish on my site the info on testing results and the tester(if they want) as soon as I get positive feedback. ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Hindman" <wdhindman at bellsouth.net> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 2:11 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Drawing text/graphics on MS Access forms usingWin32API > ...I've never tried anything anywhere near that complex ...round and polygon > windows are more than enough to impress the hell out of my clients :) > > ...but it looks like Shamil even has the source for that source ...love to > see the results if he takes it any further :) > > William Hindman > Government is not reason, government is not persuasion, > government is force. It is a dangerous servant." G. Washington > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mitsules, Mark S. (Newport News)" <Mark.Mitsules at ngc.com> > To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" > <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 11:20 AM > Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Drawing text/graphics on MS Access forms > usingWin32API > > > > >> produce circular, elliptic, or polycentric forms << > > > > William, > > > > I remember a demo..."ShapedForm.mdb". Was that your inspiration? I > > downloaded it long ago because I thought a submarine shaped form would be > > very unique;) I never got around to actually researching the full > > capabilities. Are complex shapes such as that even possible? > > > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: William Hindman [mailto:wdhindman at bellsouth.net] > > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 10:55 AM > > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Drawing text/graphics on MS Access forms > > usingWin32API > > > > > > Shamil > > > > ...lebans also has code for using images to imitate drawing circles/shapes > > around controls ...I've used it to highlight calc results, etc. > > > > ...I've also got an api module that I've used since A97 that lets me > produce > > circular, elliptic, or polycentric forms ...which is actually drawing on > the > > form and hiding everything outside of the elliptic ...I've only used it > for > > splash forms and switchboards but it sure does wake up an audience looking > > to see what you're capable of ...I've had more than a couple swear I was > > using something other than pure Access :) > > > > William Hindman > > Government is not reason, government is not persuasion, government is > force. > > It is a dangerous servant." G. Washington > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil-users at mns.ru> > > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" > > <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 9:18 AM > > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Drawing text/graphics on MS Access forms > > usingWin32API > > > > > > > > couldn't you find an ocx to handle that? > > > This would be a limited solution by definition - OCX/ActiveX is a > > > rogue for MS Access forms and controls... > > > > > > > Now, I don't know why you would draw something on a form > > > 1. "tractor" continuous/datasheet forms > > > 2. skins > > > 3. Dynamic drawing of circles, ellipses, .., and other geometric > > > figures around controls to highlight special values etc... 4. just fun > > > of extreme VBA programming 5. ??? (something else anybody) ??? > > > > > > Shamil > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk> > > > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" > > > <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > > > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 2:28 PM > > > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Drawing text/graphics on MS Access forms > > > usingWin32API > > > > > > > > > > Hi Shamil > > > > > > > > > So this is a challenge to prove the opposite? > > > > > > > > Certainly! > > > > > > > > > Any betters here? :) > > > > > > > > Njah, not me ... > > > > > > > > Now, I don't know why you would draw something on a form. If it were > > > > anything more than some decorating stuff, couldn't you find an ocx > > > > to handle that? > > > > > > > > /gustav > > > > > > > > > > > > >> That may not be possible at all. Read here: > > > > >> > > > > >> http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0053.htm > > > > >> > > > > >> /gustav > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > Have anybody any info on subj? > > > > >> > > > > >> > TIA for any refs, tips and tricks, > > > > >> > Shamil > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > dba-Tech mailing list > > > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > dba-Tech mailing list > > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com