[Q] Sizing Buttons

[zeshrek]

Hi all

First of all, I apologize for my poor english, I try to do my best but it's not my mother tongue. I come from the French Autoit forum, where nobody can help me so I ask my question here.

Then...

I have a sizing problem with icons.

I can upscale them (even if antialiasing would be welcome), I can use them on 'small' buttons, but, I can't upscale them on a large button.

In the following script, how can I have the icon of the second button (bottom left) enlarged enough to use as much surface of the button as possible, instead of this ridiculous tiny icon.

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <ButtonConstants.au3>


GUICreate(" My GUI Icons", 270, 200)

$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button1", 10, 10, 40, 40, $BS_ICON)
GUICtrlSetImage($Button1, "C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll", 10)
$Button2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button2", 10, 50, 97, 97, $BS_ICON)
GUICtrlSetImage($Button2, "C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll", 10)

$icon = GUICtrlCreateIcon("shell32.dll", 10, 170, 10, 40, 40)
$icon2 = GUICtrlCreateIcon("shell32.dll", 10, 170, 50, 80, 80)

GUISetState()

While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()

    If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then ExitLoop
WEnd
GUIDelete()

Hint :

If I extract the icon out of the DLL and use the .ico file instead of the DLL it works.

So I suspect a bug in icons management when they come from a DLL instead of a .ICO file.

The problem is that need the icon to remain in the DLL, as my script uses several icons, and I want to keep all of them together in the DLL. As a workaround I tryed to put a BMP file in the DLL but I don't know how to extract it and use it on the button after.

Thanks in advance

[JoHanatCent]

I have a sizing problem with icons.

So why not just use the Icon as the button? If you play arrond with the styles it would look just like a button.

I added some #Include(s)

Try:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
GUICreate(" My GUI Icons", 270, 200)
$icon = GUICtrlCreateIcon("shell32.dll", 10, 170, 10, 40, 40)
$icon2 = GUICtrlCreateIcon("shell32.dll", 10, 10, 50, 97, 97, Default , $WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE)
GUISetState()
While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then ExitLoop
    if $msg = $icon2 then MsgBox(0, '', 'Icon2 selected', 3 )
WEnd
GUIDelete()

[zeshrek]

Thank you JoHanatCent for this, but...

But if I use the icon as a button, it looks sunken. I would like it to be raised (like a normal button) but if i use $WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE instead of $WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE it then becomes flat. I didn't find how to raise it so it looks like a button.

[JoHanatCent]

it then becomes flat. I didn't find how to raise it so it looks like a button.

Want to maybe try $SS_SIMPLE?

[GEOSoft]

You might be able to do it with _GUICtrlButton_SetImage() by setting the last parameter to True.

[zeshrek]

Thank you all

I finally droped that, and use a basic 40x40 button with a 32x32 icon on it.

Maybe next version of Autoit will allow to resize icons when they come from a DLL.