[lazarus] BitButton in Win32

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 18:37:40 +0200
Martin Smat <martin.smat at tiscali.cz> wrote:

> Hi,
>    I tried to implement the bitmap buttons under win32 interface to show 
> correctly the image and the button caption (now the caption is not 
> displayed - it's because the button is defined with flag BS_BITMAP). It 
> should be defined with flag BS_OWNERDRAW and painted in processing 
> WM_DRAWITEM message.

This is win32 specific. Under gtk you don't need to draw it yourself, you
can simply insert a pixmap into a button. Every used custom draw function in
the LCL should be avoided to get theme dependent controls.
Can we delegate the bitmap drawing to the win32 interface?


Mattias



>    In WM_DRAWITEM I filled the TLMDrawItems structure. The LM_DRAWITEM 
> message is processed in procedure TCustomForm.WndProc but only for 
> ODT_MENU. Can this procedure be extended about processing ODT_BUTTON?
>    I think something like this:
> ...
> if CtlType = ODT_BUTTON then
> begin
>    CNSendMessage(LM_DRAWITEM, TObject(GetProp(hwndItem ,'WinControl')), 
> Pointer(TheMessage.LParam)); { or calling an interface function - what 
> would be better? }
> end;
> ...
> 
> When processing ODT_BUTTON will be there I will make the rest and send a 
> patch.
> 
> Martin Smat.
> 
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