Menus with big icons
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Topic: Menus with big icons
Posted By: Denbuerg
Subject: Menus with big icons
Date Posted: 23 March 2006 at 7:15am
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Hi, what do I have to do, to create menus with big icons? Just like the Windows Start menu. |
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Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 23 March 2006 at 8:23am
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Hello,
try pCommandBars->GetCommandBarsOptions()->szPopupIcons = CSize(24, 24); ------------- Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS |
Posted By: Denbuerg
Date Posted: 23 March 2006 at 8:55am
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This doesn't work. I have a dialog similiar to the sample DialogSample. Except I load 32x32 icons. pCommandBars was NULL when I tried: CXTPCommandBars* pCommands = m_wndMenuBar.GetCommandBars(); |
Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 23 March 2006 at 12:22pm
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Hi, You can create some commandbars object and attach to menu bar... (SetCommandBars) I recommend you update your version. In 9.81 there is ability to use customization/reposition toolbars.
------------- Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS |
Posted By: davidsimmonds
Date Posted: 24 March 2006 at 5:16pm
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I have bitmaps that are 28x16. I attach them to the menu system like this for certain on-demand items; that is, I don't have a toolbar to match the items. The problem is that the system stretches the menu bitmap to 28x28. Other menu systems don't do this. It just puts up the bitmap in the size that I want. Here is the code that I use. void CMainFrame::InsertMenuItem(CXTPControls* pCommandList, int nPosition, int nID, LPCTSTR pszText, int nBitmapID/*=0*/){ CString str = pszText; CString strHotKey = GetAccelName(nID); if (!strHotKey.IsEmpty())str += _T( "\t")+strHotKey;CXTPControl* pControl = pCommandList->Add(xtpControlButton, nID, str, -1, TRUE); if (nPosition != -1)pCommandList->MoveBefore(pControl, nPosition+1); if (nBitmapID != 0 && !theApp.m_b508UI){ CBitmap bmp; BITMAP bm; bmp.LoadBitmap(nBitmapID); bmp.GetBitmap(&bm); CImageList iml; iml.Create(bm.bmHeight, bm.bmHeight, ILC_MASK, 0, 0); iml.Add(&bmp, RGB(255,128,0)); pControl->SetCustomIc on(iml.ExtractIcon(0)); } } } |
Posted By: davidsimmonds
Date Posted: 24 March 2006 at 5:19pm
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Without the following statement, the bitmaps are clipped at 16x16. pCommandBars->GetCommandBarsOptions()->szPopupIcons = CSize(28, 16); With that line in place, the bitmap are stretched, but are still clipped. |
Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 24 March 2006 at 9:22pm
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Just tried and don't see any problems... Try to create new application with wizard and reproduce it with it. Do you have 9.80/9.81? As I remember it was some changes in this field. ------------- Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS |
Posted By: davidsimmonds
Date Posted: 24 March 2006 at 10:42pm
| 9.81. |
Posted By: davidsimmonds
Date Posted: 24 March 2006 at 10:44pm
| You have a 28x16 bitmap and it looks fine? |
Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 25 March 2006 at 7:24am
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Steps: Open PrintPreview sample Open main Toolbar and change icons size to 28*16 add pCommandBars->GetCommandBarsOptions()->szPopupIcons = CSize(28, 16);
------------- Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS |
Posted By: davidsimmonds
Date Posted: 25 March 2006 at 8:25am
| Leave the icons in the toolbar as they were (16x16 I think). Then create a bitmap that is 28x16. Create a new menu item somewhere that does not have a toolbar item. Assign the 28x16 bitmap to that new menu item. What do you see? Is the icon properly sized or is it clipped or sized very small? |
Posted By: davidsimmonds
Date Posted: 03 April 2006 at 10:12am
| No answer to the question? |
Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 03 April 2006 at 2:58pm
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Hello, just tried code you attached and see problem. Steps to fix: add pCommandBars->GetCommandBarsOptions()->szPopupIcons = CSize(28, 16); replace in your code iml.Create(bm.bmHeight, bm.bmHeight, ILC_MASK, 0, 0); to iml.Create(bm.bmWidth, bm.bmHeight, ILC_MASK, 0, 0);
------------- Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS |
Posted By: davidsimmonds
Date Posted: 03 April 2006 at 3:03pm
| Yes, I found that bug also, but it does not fix the problem. I want to have the toolbar left at 16x16. I have some custom bitmaps that are 28x16. I want the bitmaps that come from the toolbar and placed automatically by the Xtreme Toolkit framework to look correct AND I want my 28x16 bitmaps to look correct. Right now, the 28x16 look correct, but the 16x16 bitmaps are stretched. Other menu frameworks allow this to work. The Xtreme toolkit must be able to do it as well. |
Posted By: davidsimmonds
Date Posted: 03 April 2006 at 3:05pm
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Also, I have this in my OnCreate method: // Initialize the command bars if (!InitCommandBars()) return -1; // Get a pointer to the command bars object.CXTPCommandBars* pCommandBars = GetCommandBars(); if (pCommandBars == NULL){ TRACE0( "Failed to create command bars object.\n"); return -1; // fail to create} pCommandBars->GetCommandBarsOptions()->szPopupIcons = CSize(28, 16); // Add the menu barCXTPCommandBar* pMenuBar = pCommandBars->SetMenu( _T( "Menu Bar"), IDR_MAINFRAME); if (pMenuBar == NULL){ TRACE0( "Failed to create menu bar.\n"); return -1; // fail to create} |
Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 03 April 2006 at 3:50pm
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It is designed behaviour. You must create 28*16 image for each icon you plan to use in Popup.
------------- Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS |
Posted By: davidsimmonds
Date Posted: 03 April 2006 at 3:55pm
| It is bad design then. If you make a toolbar 28x16, it will look wierd. Like I said, other menu systems allow for this. Can the Xtreme Toolkit not be modified to do so as well? |
Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 04 April 2006 at 9:11am
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You don't need to make toolbar 28*16, you need to create another icon set for 28*16 icons. create some bitmap for icons and call pImageManager->SetIcons(IDR_TOOLABAR, IDR_BITMAP); ------------- Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS |
Posted By: davidsimmonds
Date Posted: 04 April 2006 at 9:15am
| So if I have a toolbar that is 16x16 already that the framework is using, I can simply use another bitmap that is 28x16 and make the call like you suggest above and the menus will take the icons from there and not from the toolbar and the toolbar will still look as it should? |
Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 04 April 2006 at 9:29am
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Yes. menus first tring to find best bitmap in ImageManager if not found when it will resize exists. ------------- Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS |