Codejock Developer Community : Disabled Alpha Icons http://forum.codejock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:31:53 +0000 Wed, 08 Sep 2004 17:00:06 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 forum.codejock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=1146 <![CDATA[Codejock Developer Community]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_images/codejock-logo.gif http://forum.codejock.com/ <![CDATA[Disabled Alpha Icons : It would be nice if Codejock can...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1146&PID=3037&title=disabled-alpha-icons#3037 Author: Sven
Subject: 1146
Posted: 08 September 2004 at 5:00pm

It would be nice if Codejock can add your code to the library.

]]> Wed, 08 Sep 2004 17:00:06 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1146&PID=3037&title=disabled-alpha-icons#3037 <![CDATA[Disabled Alpha Icons : Yes, I really like this using...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1146&PID=3036&title=disabled-alpha-icons#3036 Author: Ark42
Subject: 1146
Posted: 08 September 2004 at 4:55pm


Yes, I really like this using XPCOLOR_DISABLED for the dark color andXPCOLOR_3DFACE for the lightcolor.  Is there any way to internally use these colors and nothave such a mess of code like I sort of created trying this out?
The results are very nice:
Using this method:   compared to the actual Office 2003   
Its not exactly the same, but its good enough and looks very nice still.

To compare:

This is the 3 XP themes and then the normal Win2000 theme and also Spruce and Lilac.
Each in Office 2003, XP, then 2000 styles.

]]> Wed, 08 Sep 2004 16:55:35 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1146&PID=3036&title=disabled-alpha-icons#3036 <![CDATA[Disabled Alpha Icons : After playing around with it...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1146&PID=3012&title=disabled-alpha-icons#3012 Author: Ark42
Subject: 1146
Posted: 08 September 2004 at 1:04am


After playing around with it some more, I actually like usingXPCOLOR_DISABLED for the dark color and XPCOLOR_3DFACE for the lightcolor. It works very well under all of the color themes under XP andunder classic themes.

I still feel it is very hackishly done and would like some input on howto clean it up or if you can include such a feature in the future so Iwouldn't have to continuously update the library each time I download anew version.

Right now, I have a function that handles switching themes, and I stuck in:
    CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisabledDark = pPaintMgr->GetXtremeColor(XPCOLOR_DISABLED);
    CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisabledLight = pPaintMgr->GetXtremeColor(XPCOLOR_3DFACE);
which works very nicely..
In my void CMainFrame::OnSysColorChange() I also added
    CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisabledDark = pPaintMgr->GetXtremeColor(XPCOLOR_DISABLED);
    CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisabledLight = pPaintMgr->GetXtremeColor(XPCOLOR_3DFACE);
    GetCommandBars()->GetImageManager()->RefreshAll();
I'm not sure why I needed the RefreshAll there, but I did.

All of this works entirely, but I don't feel its the best design.

]]> Wed, 08 Sep 2004 01:04:56 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1146&PID=3012&title=disabled-alpha-icons#3012 <![CDATA[Disabled Alpha Icons : I started some of this,...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1146&PID=3009&title=disabled-alpha-icons#3009 Author: Ark42
Subject: 1146
Posted: 07 September 2004 at 11:00pm


I started some of this, but I am unsure how to properly make all the changes for this in the library.

First, I added:
COLORREF CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisabledDark = RGB(128, 128, 128);
COLORREF CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisabledLight = RGB(192, 192, 192);
since I couldn't get GetXtremeColor() to work for XPCOLOR_* inside of CXTPImageManagerIconanyplace, and even if it did work, the proper color ranges for the XPthemes don't really exist using any of the colors I would have to pickfrom.
I also changed CXTPImageManager::m_dDisabledBrightnessFactor to default to 1.0 instead of 0.5;

So in CXTPImageManagerIcon::CreateDisabledIcon()
I changed the first:
int nGray = (BYTE)(pow(dGray / 255.0, CXTPImageManager::m_dDisabledBrightnessFactor) * 255.0);
to:
int nGray = (BYTE)(dGray/CXTPImageManager::m_dDisabledBrightnessFactor);
because it scales much nicer that way, then below that I made some bigger changes:
just before the for (UINT i = 0; i < nSize; i += 4) loop, I added:
COLORREF clrRange = RGB( GetRValue(CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisabledLight) - GetRValue(CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisabledDark),
                     GetGValue(CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisable dLight) -GetGValue(CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisabledDark),
                     GetBValue(CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisable dLight) -GetBValue(CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisabledDark) );
then inside the loop I changed:
double dGray = pBits[i + 0] * 0.299 + pBits[i + 1] * 0.587 + pBits[i + 2] * 0.114;
pBits[i + 0] = pBits[i + 1] = pBits[i + 2] = (BYTE)(pow(dGray / 255.0, CXTPImageManager::m_dDisabledBrightnessFactor) * 255.0);
to:
double dGray = (pBits[i + 0] *0.299 + pBits[i + 1] * 0.587 + pBits[i + 2] * 0.114) /CXTPImageManager::m_dDisabledBrightnessFactor / 255.0;
pBits[i + 0] = GetBValue(CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisabledDark) + BYTE(dGray * GetBValue(clrRange));
pBits[i + 1] = GetGValue(CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisabledDark) + BYTE(dGray * GetGValue(clrRange));
pBits[i + 2] = GetRValue(CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisabledDark) + BYTE(dGray * GetRValue(clrRange));

I also added a GetImageManager()->RefreshAll(); in CXTPCommandBars::SetPaintManager so that the disabledauto icons would be flushed if the theme is changed just like they are when the system colors change.

So in order to actually use this, I just assumed the XP default blue theme to test, and set:
CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisabledDark = RGB(97, 122, 172);
CXTPImageManager::m_clrDisabledLight = RGB(233, 236, 242);
and the results are very similar to what Office 2003 actually does.

The only problem is hardcoding all these values for all the variousthemes and changing them manually by resetting those two variableswhenever the system colors or theme changes.

My new code:


A good enough approximation would probably be to use XPCOLOR_3DFACE for m_clrDisabledLight and2/3 of each of the RGB values from that for m_clrDisabledDark, but Ican't see any good way to automate this so the user doesn't have tokeep setting them...




Edited by Ark42]]> Tue, 07 Sep 2004 23:00:45 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1146&PID=3009&title=disabled-alpha-icons#3009 <![CDATA[Disabled Alpha Icons : Currently the disabled alpha...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1146&PID=2994&title=disabled-alpha-icons#2994 Author: Ark42
Subject: 1146
Posted: 06 September 2004 at 7:35pm

Currently the disabled alpha icons that are autogenerated are greyscaleand alpha blended onto the toolbar, but that is not how Office reallydoes it. Office's icons still resemble the toolbar color when faded out.


Office 2003:


Codejock:

Any plans to fix this?]]> Mon, 06 Sep 2004 19:35:35 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1146&PID=2994&title=disabled-alpha-icons#2994