Re: General Graphics question

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Hello Chris,

I thankyou very much for your much appreciated reply!


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Best regards
Roberto


"Chris Tacke, eMVP" wrote:

You generally have 3 "types" of controls:

1. Standard: what you see is what you get. Easy to use since all
implementation is done
2. Owner drawn: You use a standard control and override the painting
behavior. This allows you to change the look and feel dramatically. You
can do 99% of customiztion this way and make the UI look nothing like
Windows. These take longer to create becasue you have top do all of the
painting.
3. Fully custom built: This is for teh remaining 1%. Here you write the
code for painting, handling all events, etc. Basically you start with a
base Window and build up from there. These take a long time, but htere's
really nothing you can't do.


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"Robby" <Robby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

I don't know if this would be the best community for my question, however,
here it goes.

I would like to know if when using WCE, we are able to display our own
special controls. I know that it is possible to display a multitude of
standard graphic controls such as list boxes, dropdown list boxes, buttons
and so forth... But lets say we want to draw special garphics or
functionality to a control that doesn't exist in the typical controls
offered
by the Windows graphics libraries!!!!

For example, suppose I want to display a dropdown list box that has
unconventional behaviour, like when we click on it, instead of it dropping
down a list with its items on it as typically done in Windows, instead, I
would like the drop down action as a roll down action similar to unrolling
a
tube of paper. Also, suppose I want a specific background pattern when the
drop down list box is in its down state. And suppose I want to do specific
and special borders around the dropdown list box for example a fluffy
border
with special gradients and designs on it. Also, suppose that when I click
on
an item of a dropdown list box, I would like to perform some special
annimation involving the border of the dropdown list box before it rolls
back
up.

Basically, what am trying to understand is the limits of how far we can
modify the ghraphics and functionality of a standard graphic control
within a
Windows/CE environment.

Any feedback is appriciated!

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Best regards
Roberto



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