Image as a button

[Apzo]

Hello

I just want to replace a simple button by an image.

Easy with GuiCtrlCreateButton and GUICtrlSetImage , but how to get rid of the button borders ?

More, I have to click on the button part : doing so on the image part -inside the button- does nothing.

Then I tried with GUICtrlCreateIcon.

It shows my icon (no borders, great !) but impossible to register a message with it.

So is it possible to have a nice button (bmp or ico) ?

Thanks in advance

Apzo.

[JohnOne]

Hmm I was pretty certain you could register a msg of any control on a gui, seems I was wrong again.

Have you tried GUICtrlCreatePic() see if you can use that.

EDIT:

I've just used an icon and registered it msg in a gui, perhaps some other part of yopr code is failing.

Edited April 4, 2010 by JohnOne

[Melba23]

Apzo,

I have found Malkey's UDF here to be very useful when I want to register a click on a certain part of the GUI (like an image) without using a specific control. It was designed to use different parts of a larger background image as separate "buttons", but it is easy to extract the code to react to the area covered by your smaller image.

Do not be put off by all the GDI drawing code - that is just to give a graphic to show the areas you can click on. If you have a rectangular image, all you really need is the _WinAPI_PtInRectEx function.

Give it a go and come back if you have difficulties.

M23

[Tvern]

Please supply some code when asking for help.

There is no need to use GuiCtrlCreateButton() if you don't want the button border.

Both GUICtrlCreatePic() and GUICtrlCreateIcon() set GUIGetMsg() when clicked by default. (or GuiCtrlSetOnEvent())

If you are not using the default style, then specify the $SS_NOTIFY style.

[Yashied]

Simple way.

#Include <WinAPI.au3>
#Include <WindowsConstants.au3>

$Background = _WinAPI_GetSysColor($COLOR_3DFACE)
$Background = BitOR(BitAND($Background, 0x00FF00), BitShift(BitAND($Background, 0x0000FF), -16), BitShift(BitAND($Background, 0xFF0000), 16))

GUICreate('', 100, 100)
$Icon = GUICtrlCreateIcon(@AutoItExe, 0, 34, 34, 32, 32)
GUISetState()

While 1
    $Msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $Msg
        Case -3
            ExitLoop
        Case $Icon
            If PixelGetColor(MouseGetPos(0), MouseGetPos(1)) <> $Background Then
                ConsoleWrite('Click' & @CR)
            EndIf
    EndSwitch
WEnd