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Topic: how to skin CXTCaption ?

Posted By: evoX
Subject: how to skin CXTCaption ?
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 11:09am

how can I change the skin to CXTCaption ?

there is no sample in the library to demonstrate this.

thanks !

Replies:

Posted By: evoX
Date Posted: 25 July 2007 at 12:05pm

I am talking about this caption, from an outlookbar type frame.

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 26 July 2007 at 7:10am

Hello,

You can derive from CXTCaption and override its DrawCaptionBack method.

How do you want to skin it ?

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: evoX
Date Posted: 26 July 2007 at 7:47am

I want the background to be drawn with a gradient instead of fixed color.

Posted By: evoX
Date Posted: 28 July 2007 at 8:54am

also how can I change the caption icon to make it bigger ?

I use this line to extract an icon from an imagelist with large icons

m_wndCaption.UpdateCaption(m_xRes.LoadString(IDS_SYS_TITLE_OS), m_ImageLarge.ExtractIcon(1));

but the icons are drawn to small on the caption bar

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 30 July 2007 at 8:02am

Hi,

You can call m_wndCaption.SetTheme(xtThemeOffice2003); to use gradient colors.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: jimmy
Date Posted: 30 July 2007 at 8:12am

Set in our derive constructor
    m_sizeIcon.cx = 32;
    m_sizeIcon.cy = 32;

    Jimmy

PS: Look into the source XTCaption.cpp

Posted By: evoX
Date Posted: 30 July 2007 at 8:54am

m_wndCaption.SetTheme(xtThemeOffice2003); has no effect at all on the background color.

thanks jimmy for the icon size tip.

Posted By: evoX
Date Posted: 30 July 2007 at 8:57am

This is how it looks now, and any theme I apply to it remains the same, just the font size, font color and background color is changing.

here is the initialization code

BOOL CMainFrame::InitializeCaptionBar()

{

if (!m_wndCaption.Create(&m_wndSplitter2, _T("System Overview"), NULL,

WS_VISIBLE|SS_CENTER|SS_CENTERIMAGE, CRect(0,0,0,0), m_wndSplitter2.IdFromRowCol(0, 0)))

{

TRACE0("Failed to caption window.\n");

return FALSE;

}

HICON hIcon = AfxGetApp()->LoadIcon(IDI_SYSTEM_OVERVIEW);

m_wndCaption.SetTheme(xtThemeOffice2003);

// set the caption colors.

m_wndCaption.SetCaptionColors (GetXtremeColor(COLOR_3DFACE),

GetXtremeColor(COLOR_3DSHADOW), GetXtremeColor(COLOR_WINDOW) );

LOGFONT lf;

XTAuxData().fontBold.GetLogFont(&lf);

lf.lfHeight = 25;

m_fontCaption.CreateFontIndirect(&lf);

// set the font and initial icon.

m_wndCaption.ModifyCaptionStyle(0,

&m_fontCaption, NULL, hIcon);

// Sizing for splitter

m_wndSplitter2.SetRowInfo (0, 28, 0);

return TRUE;

}