Wonder about those ReBars!??
This baby would just about make or break a Visual C++/MFC programmer.
Modesty prevailed!?? Bad news is it's a stripped MDI Clipboard Viewer.
The Explorer and Navigator are a major step into a Graphic User Interface,
except for textures, TaDa!.. Anyways the new Common Controls from MS
that comes with MS IE 4.0 or better allows textures under those rebars!.
Only problem is working around MFC to accomplish any graphics on the UI.
A wonder!
I managed to get into MFC to hide the default menu, toolbar and status bar,
added two rebars to the CMainFrame in a MDI interface and overided the
MDI Client which resulted in everything becomming a Textured nightmare,
I really need to get some designer textures. I'll be
on POV-RAY for a while trying to get these. Two bonus' are an animation,
and a logo on the MDI Client. A warning though, that logo that is on the
navigator and MS IE and AOL even, is patened by Wang it seems,
so an animated logo isa no-no!?? I hope an animated Donut is safe.
This isa Frankenstein of the MFC samples, I shudder when I gotta think about
re-writing MFC, mabee MS will see this and it will be in a future version of MFC.
those backgrounds are just simple things to modify, and the animation is
loadable from disk and not stored in the program's resources as of now.
The major problem is that Status Bar, it seems to require a Transparent feature
that I havent found yet, but it does support owner draw, so it's not a major
stumbling block. Also the menu is not tracked so u don't have a fly-away
menu selection feature, I need to really decide if I like double clicking on a menu
item or that fly-away feature in the old one.. It's not perfect but it's
Copyright June 1999.
Wednesday, March 21, 2001 12:05:12 am