question about buttons

[Lord_Doominik]

is there a way to make buttons like the one in the menu? or in firefox the bookmarks toolbar and the home, go, refresh, ... buttons are like them too...

i want them to be at the background and only on mouseover at the foreground...

or said in anotherway: i want them to have no borders...

i found no extension for this, but i hope you can help me...

[Lord_Doominik]

no idea?

[Helge]

If I understand you correctly, why not use GUICtrlCreatePic ?

[Lord_Doominik]

cause i want to have text... and on mousover they should be so, like the buttons in ie, firefox or the menus...

[seandisanti]

button styles..... check in your help file in...function reference>gui reference>Gui Control creation>GUICtrlCreateButton there is a link there for the button styles appendix... sounds to me like the one you're looking for would be $BS_FLAT, but check them out yourself and maybe experiment to find the one you like...

[Lord_Doominik]

in my opinion i tryed ALL styles and didn't found the right one, but i can try it with $BS_FLAT...

ok tryed it and its not the one i search... i said, i want to have thje button like the one sin the menu... for example the filemenu... with very small borders only and few 3d shadow effects.

Edited July 14, 2005 by Lord_Doominik

[Daggett]

hyperlink?

[Lord_Doominik]

???

WHAT

???

i'm searching a button style for buttons, that theyre like the menus... that has nothing to do with hyperlinks? i only want, that they are on mouseover a button and instead not, like in the menu or mozzille or ie... i tryed it with pics and buttons, but i need a button style, which has smaller borders... such like these at the menu on mouseover...

[seandisanti]

???

WHAT

???

i'm searching a button style for buttons, that theyre like the menus... that has nothing to do with hyperlinks? i only want, that they are on mouseover a button and instead not, like in the menu or mozzille or ie... i tryed it with pics and buttons, but i need a button style, which has smaller borders... such like these at the menu on mouseover...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

if you can't find someone else's solution to your problem, you may want to consider making your own....

[Lord_Doominik]

hm... how do you make own button styles? o.O

[seandisanti]

hm... how do you make own button styles? o.O

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

i meant make your own solution... like, you know the behavior you want, you know the behaviors that autoit can provide. if you want a solution that doesn't already exist, with some learning, you can make your own. that's the beauty of being a programmer, not having to take things 'as is' you can make them your own.

[Lord_Doominik]

i would promise this with functions... but ith button styles o.O... i'll try it...!

[Sosostris]

if you can't find someone else's solution to your problem, you may want to consider making your own....

I have made a demo of how a mouseover can be achieved. There is an example of changing a label's background color and changing an image on mouseover.

I guess the label of the image could be made to look exactly like the required button.

For this example, please use these two images: http://smiffit.com/pix/go.gif and http://smiffit.com/pix/o.gif

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

Opt("MouseCoordMode", 0) ; 1 means screen, 0 active window

opt("GUIOnEventMode", 0)

; GLOBAL DECLARATIONS

Global $thisGuiTitle = "MouseOvers"; Change as needed

; Don't change these

Global $prevXPos, $prevYPos,$xpos,$ypos;

; CREATE GUI WITH LABELS AND AN IMAGE

GUICreate($thisGuiTitle, 400, 200, "", "", $WS_THICKFRAME) ; can be resized - try it

$greenLab=GUICtrlCreateLabel ("Label 1", 10, 10,50,20,$SS_CENTER ) ; will grow when window is resized

GUICtrlSetBkColor ( -1, 0x00ff00 ) ; green

$redLab=GUICtrlCreateLabel ("Label 2", 10, 30,50,20,$SS_CENTER ) ; will grow when window is resized

GUICtrlSetBkColor ( -1, 0xff0000 ); red

$xreport=GUICtrlCreateLabel ("0", 100, 10,50,20,$SS_CENTER )

$yreport=GUICtrlCreateLabel ("0", 100, 30,50,20,$SS_CENTER )

$SearchButton = GUICtrlCreatePic("go.gif", 11, 60, 27, 17)

GUISetState()

; FUNCTIONS

; Use this function to add those elements that need mouseovers

Func doMouseOvers()

; Call a function here for each item needing a rollover effect as follows:

; mouseOverChangeImage(controlID,$xpos,$ypos,"path_to_normal_image","path_to_mouseover_image")

; mouseOverChangeBk(controlID,$xpos,$ypos,normal_color,mouseover_color)

; NB The colors should be in the 0xrrggbb format - no quotation marks needed

mouseOverChangeImage($SearchButton,$xpos,$ypos,'go.gif','o.gif')

mouseOverChangeBk($greenLab,$xpos,$ypos,0x00ff00,0xffcc33)

mouseOverChangeBk($redLab,$xpos,$ypos,0xff0000,0xffcc33)

EndFunc

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; The next four functions are best left unchanged ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Func getMousePos()

$pos = MouseGetPos()

$xpos=$pos[0];

$ypos=$pos[1];

If $xpos == $prevXPos AND $ypos == $prevYPos Then

; do nothing

Else

doMouseOvers()

$prevXPos=$xpos

$prevYPos=$ypos

GUIctrlSetData($xreport,"Left:"&$xpos)

GUIctrlSetData($yreport,"Top:"&$ypos)

EndIf

EndFunc

Func mouseOverChangeImage($object,$xpos,$ypos,$normalImg,$overImg)

If gotcha($object) == 1 Then

GUICtrlSetImage ( $object, $overImg )

Else

GUICtrlSetImage ( $object, $normalImg )

EndIf

EndFunc ; =>mouseOverChangeImage

Func mouseOverChangeBk($object,$xpos,$ypos,$normalColor,$overColor)

If gotcha($object) == 1 Then

GUICtrlSetBkColor ( $object, $overColor )

Else

GUICtrlSetBkColor ( $object, $normalColor )

EndIf

EndFunc ; =>mouseOverChangeImage

Func gotcha($object)

Local $Vcompensator=29;

Local $Hcompensator=3;

$SBPos = ControlGetPos($thisGuiTitle, "", $object)

Local $sbLeft=$SBPos[0]+$Hcompensator

Local $sbTop=$SBPos[1]+$Vcompensator;

Local $sbW=$SBPos[2];

Local $sbH=$SBPos[3];

Local $sbRight=($sbLeft+$sbW+2)

Local $sbBot=($sbTop+$sbH+2)

If $xpos>$sbLeft AND $xpos<$sbRight AND $ypos>$sbTop AND $ypos<$sbBot Then

Return 1

Else

Return 0

EndIf

EndFunc

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Leave above functions as they are ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Run the GUI until the user closes it

While 1

$msg = GUIGetMsg()

getMousePos()

Select

Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

ExitLoop

EndSelect

WEnd

[Somniis]

GUICtrlCreateButton("Button", 8, 168, 72, 40, $BS_ICON)

GUICtrlSetImage(-1, "shell32.dll", 165)

GUICtrlSetTip(-1, "This is a button")

This will produce a button with only an image on it, and a mouse-over will read "This is a button".

Is this what you were asking for? Not really sure what you are asking.

Edited March 6, 2006 by Somniis