I try to do a gui on MUI with transparency like "anr". But I have a problem...

If I take "transparency.c" as an example, I don't have
an equivalence to WA_TransparentRegionHook for MUI and I don't known how to do that...

Perhaps, somebody may be help me ??

(Sorry for my bad english..)

Hi,

I did that in my TopCPU app, I just sent you a mail with some code examples!

Bye!

thanks for your email...
I'm going to study all that :))

Here is result...

It's just a test for a gui of mplayer...

[ Edited by rusback on 2006/9/17 17:45 ]

Lovely... (...resemblance to winamp )

MPlayer GUI? Finally! More power to you.

Maybe you would like to take a look at the skinning system of the unreleased new FroggerNG version for inspiration? I have a couple of finished skins which could be reused in that case.

Jobbo

great idea. those frogger skins looked really cool and fit in with mos theme

magnetic

@warface: yes it's an gui of winamp modified a little...

@Jobbo: why not... send me please for a test...

[ Edited by rusback on 2006/9/18 20:40 ]

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Unless your spam filter ate it, you should have an email by now

I'd like to set up a drag gadget over some parts of my mui window (background parts). What's the best way to implement it ??

> I'd like to set up a drag gadget over some parts of my
> mui window (background parts). What's the best way to
> implement it ??

Subclass MUIC_Rectangle and do something like

OBJECT classdata
...
sysgadget:PTR TO LONG
...
ENDOBJECT

and in your MUIM_Show method you do:

DEF w:PTR TO window

IF muiRenderInfo(obj)
IF w:=_window(obj)
data.sysgadget:=NewObjectA(0,BUTTONGCLASS,[
GA_LEFT, _left(obj),
GA_TOP, _top(obj),
GA_WIDTH, _width(obj),
GA_HEIGHT, _height(obj),
GA_SYSGTYPE, GTYP_WDRAGGING,
GA_IMMEDIATE, TRUE,
TAG_DONE])

IF data.sysgadget THEN AddGadget(w,data.sysgadget,-1) [edit: forgot this vital line :/]
ENDIF
ENDIF

matching the above in your MUIM_Hide with:

DEF w:PTR TO window

IF muiRenderInfo(obj)
IF w:=_window(obj)
IF data.sysgadget
RemoveGadget(w, data.sysgadget)
DisposeObject(data.sysgadget)
ENDIF
data.sysgadget:=NIL
ENDIF
ENDIF

If you don't want object dimensions as it will just be some useless HVSpace, use MUIA_FixWidth/Height of 1 and use whatever you like for l/t/w/h in MUIM_Show.

Note that there are millions of other ways to do it, but I guess the important part here is adding a system gadget to your MUI app.

The above won't make up for the drag gadget being in the background, so all other objects it overlaps won't receive input anymore.

If there's no other obvious way to do it (I have found none), you need to traverse through object list of root group object and substract object regions from your intended drag area and add a drag gadget for each remaining region after traversing. At least that's how its done in newer ANR versions.

Note2: The nice formatting got lost in preview of this post, so I guess the posted post will also have no formatting.

Gelb: thanks you very much... for your help

@Jobbo: I have not yet receive your email... Did you forget me ??

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Absolutely not. The email was sent to your wanadoo email address on September 20th, at 9.16 pm (CET). If this email address does not work for you anymore, please send me your current one via PM. Thank you.

@jobbo: try once again please... my email address works always.

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Apparently, it does not :) Anyway, email was just resent.

@Jobbo: ok... your email is arrived... cool, isn't it ???

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Sure. It will be even cooler if you can actually make use of the sent skins

just for fun, here a new screenshot of my gui for mplayer...

cu... interesting

@ Gelb

I'd love to se some kind of ready/easy to use dragarea object eg. MUIC_DragArea or an attribute of RectangleObject eg. MUIA_DragArea in future versions of MUI.
I'm sure rusback would be pleased too.
Have to send such a request to Stunzi.

@gelb:

in ANR, GUI is composed de "main.iff" (format .png 24 bits) with a pink background, but on Ambient, ANR don't display the pink color but rather the background of screen's Ambient instead ...
Is there one method to do this ???

Yes, see Gelb's message.

@rusback

> In ANR, GUI is composed de "main.iff" (format .png 24 bits) with a pink
> background, but on Ambient, ANR don't display the pink color but rather
> the background of screen's Ambient instead ...

> Is there one method to do this ???

Yes, there is !!!

What you need to do is:

a) Build a region (using region functions) out of the bits and pieces of your image that you want to have fully transparent.

b) Use TransparencyControl(window, TRANSPCONTROLMETHOD_INSTALLREGION, [TRANSPCONTROL_REGION, mytransparencyregion, TAG_DONE]) (intuition.library) to set this region as the transparency region of your _window(obj) in any MUIM_Show of your choice and match it with TransparencyControl(window, TRANSPCONTROLMETHOD_INSTALLREGION, [TRANSPCONTROL_REGION, NIL, TAG_DONE]) in MUIM_Hide.

So, in ANR's case, it collects all the pink pixels of the image into a region (NewRegion()/OrRectRegion()) in MUIM_Setup, installs this region in MUIM_Show, removes it again in MUIM_Hide and finally frees it via DisposeRegion() in MUIM_Cleanup. This all is done in its root group class.

Glad you guys are working on this. Very cool..

magnetic