Mouse movement and button colors

[3lbuniverse]

Hello there! Moving the mouse over a button changes it to blue, so how do I change the color it changes the button to? Can I get it to change the color of a button with a background color already set? Thanks for your help.

[picea892]

Please provide code. If you have a code that changes a button to blue on mouseover it would be extremely simple to change the colour it changes to.

[3lbuniverse]

Thats the thing, when I move the mouse over the button, it just turns blue by itself. I didn't do anything and can't find any code to control the change at all. And when I color the button with a GUICtrlSetBkColor($btn,0xffe4b5), then it doesn't change color at all.

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

#include <GuiButton.au3>

GUICreate("Buttons", 510, 400)

$btn = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button", 10, 10, 90, 50)

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1

$msg= GUIGetMsg()

Select

Case $msg=$GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

ExitLoop

EndSelect

WEnd

[Mat]

I think that Custom drawing the control would do it, but unless you know what your doing it's probably not what you want to do. That colour is decided by the windows theme (I presume you are running vista, as thats the effect I get)

[3lbuniverse]

So, its a windows thing, not an autoit thing? I figured I might be dealing with some internal function that I couldn't bend to my will. I'm not sure what you mean by Custom drawing the control but I'm interested in learning more, especially if it's an alternative to the _ButtonHover. Any other approaches to controling the color of a button when the mouse is over it? Thanks!

[picea892]

someone say custom buttons?

[3lbuniverse]

I got it! First I was making it too simple by hoping I could control what Mat pointed out was a windows vista theme, then I was was making it too complex trying to use new UDFs, though those buttons do look pretty cool picea892. I thought it had to be possible using simple GUIGetCursorInfo but I kept getting this flickering, so combing through this forum, Melba23 provided a perfect soultion with a flag to prevent the flickering. Works great, thank you all!

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

#include <GuiButton.au3>

$Green=0x00FF00

$Red=0xFF0000

GUICreate("Buttons", 510, 400)

$btn = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button", 10, 10, 90, 50)

GUICtrlSetBkColor($btn, $Red)

$fLabel = "Red"

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1

$msg= GUIGetMsg()

$a = GUIGetCursorInfo()

Select

Case $msg=$GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

ExitLoop

EndSelect

If $a[4] = $btn And $fLabel = "Red" Then

GUICtrlSetBkColor($btn, $Green)

$fLabel = "Green"

ElseIf $a[4] <> $btn And $fLabel = "Green" Then

GUICtrlSetBkColor($btn, $Red)

$fLabel = "Red"

EndIf

WEnd

[Melba23]

3lbuniverse,

Delighted I could help without actually being there - so to speak!

A couple of points:

1. When you colour your buttons they trap "Enter" - i.e. whenever you press the "Enter" key, it is as though you pressed the button. It is a known bug and too deeply embedded in AutoIt for it to be changed. There is no reason not to colour buttons - but you need to be aware of this behaviour or it can get a bit confusing when the script apparently happens to fire off events on its own! Here is your code with a small addition - try pressing "Enter" and see what happens :

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <GuiButton.au3>

$Green = 0x00FF00
$Red = 0xFF0000

GUICreate("Buttons", 510, 400)

$btn = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button", 10, 10, 90, 50)
GUICtrlSetBkColor($btn, $Red)

$fLabel = "Red"

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    $a = GUIGetCursorInfo()

    Select
        Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            ExitLoop
        Case $msg = $btn
            MsgBox(0, "Button", "Did you click the button" & @CRLF & "Or press Enter?")
    EndSelect

    If $a[4] = $btn And $fLabel = "Red" Then
        GUICtrlSetBkColor($btn, $Green)
        $fLabel = "Green"
    ElseIf $a[4] <> $btn And $fLabel = "Green" Then
        GUICtrlSetBkColor($btn, $Red)
        $fLabel = "Red"
    EndIf

WEnd

2. When you post code, it makes it much easier to read if you use Code tags. Put [autoit ] before and [/autoit ] after your posted code (but omit the trailing space - it is only there so the tags display here).

M23

[3lbuniverse]

I see what you mean about it pressing enter, thats interesting. Thanks for the tips!