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Re: how can i get the resource used for the background images of
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| Brian Nantz 2006-03-07, 7:57 am |
| Wouldn't it be better to create your own MessageBox class so you can
customize the way it works than to change the icons the built in
messagebox uses?
Peter Foot [MVP] wrote:
> I'm afraid I don't know exactly how the messagebox is implemented, only that
> these registry settings exist for OEMs to customise the look and feel. I
> assume the gifs are loaded with the standard SHLoadImageFile API, but I
> don't know if these are preloaded somewhere first, I doubt if there is any
> documentation which covers the inner workings.
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> Peter
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| The PocketTV Team wrote:
> "Brian Nantz" <brian@nantz.org> wrote in message
> news:uV%23XdveQGHA.5116@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
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> that's exactly what we are doing :)
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> and the problem is not the icons (we have no problems with the icons), but
> rather with the background bitmap displayed by Smartphone MessageBox.
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> i still have not found a way (i mean, an easy way that does not require
> writing thousand lines of code) to display an image in the background of a
> control (i.e. instead of the plain background color).
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> is there a way to do that?
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> i.e. by sending a message to the control?
I just draw the whole MessageBox manually, IE using BitBlt and DrawText.
cheep and nasty - but it works.
riki
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