Setting button color

[hmsSurprise]

Greetings,

I have been using AutoIt for about a week and a half now and decided to start work on the GUI portion of my project. Thought I would try using Koda and the first form I have tried I am unable to set the button color, background or text.

Don't know enough at this point about Gui generation to know if this is a Koda bug or just a user error.

Thanks,

jh

[Gcommer]

The text should be easy to set, while you have focus on the button, click on caption in the object inspector.

For colored buttons, try searching the forum. I know i've seen them somewhere

[Gcommer]

I found it : http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...colored+buttons (by gafrost)

[hmsSurprise]

Thanks for posting.

I see now that my post was unclear. I meant that I could not set the color for the button text or the color for the button background. I was hoping I could set the color using Koda.

jh

[Valuater]

For a Skin style and button color/style themes you can use EzSkin

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...st&p=307380

Edited April 15, 2007 by Valuater

[hmsSurprise]

Interesting.........

[Valuater]

Interesting.........

lol... big on words huh???

did you give it a try??

8)

[GaryFrost]

The setting of button colors is in the latest beta, probably koda hasn't been changed to reflect this.

i.e.

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

GUICreate("My GUI background color")  ; will create a dialog box that when displayed is centered

GUICtrlCreateLabel ("my label", 10,20)
GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1,0x00ff00)  ; Green
GUICtrlCreateButton("Test",10,40,90,25)
GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1,0x00000)
GUICtrlSetColor(-1,0xffffff)
                
GUISetState ()

; Run the GUI until the dialog is closed
While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    
    If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then ExitLoop
Wend

[hmsSurprise]

lol... big on words huh???

did you give it a try??

8)

Spent about 15 minutes working with it. No directory, no skin file, etc, typical newbie errors. I like the looks of it so I bookmarked it and will use it later. Right now I have more basic issues to get past, like my very first GUI design. Remember what happened to Alice when she looked at a GUI designed by Dilbert? Right now I am Dilbert, with no feel for laying out a GUI.

Thanks for posting,

jh

[hmsSurprise]

The setting of button colors is in the latest beta, probably koda hasn't been changed to reflect this.

i.e.

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

GUICreate("My GUI background color")  ; will create a dialog box that when displayed is centered

GUICtrlCreateLabel ("my label", 10,20)
GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1,0x00ff00)  ; Green
GUICtrlCreateButton("Test",10,40,90,25)
GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1,0x00000)
GUICtrlSetColor(-1,0xffffff)
                
GUISetState ()

; Run the GUI until the dialog is closed
While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    
    If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then ExitLoop
Wend

Thanks for posting, ga.

jh

[Noob]

The setting of button colors is in the latest beta, probably koda hasn't been changed to reflect this.

i.e.

GUICtrlCreateButton("Test",10,40,90,25)
GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1,0x00000)
GUICtrlSetColor(-1,0xffffff)

It's doable with the latest Beta, but the buttons don't have the "3D look" when colors are applied

[Valuater]

It's doable with the latest Beta, but the buttons don't have the "3D look" when colors are applied

I noticed that too! ...Gary put a lot of time into that one, but i don't think the "3D" effect is available with colors

AFAIK

8)

[Holger]

I tried some things out the last days with using themes/visual styles and it seems not do difficult.

However, with these API-functions one you can only change the text color ie. of a button - logical, cause the theme stuff is based on images.

(BTW: the GUIRegisterMsg-sample in the helpfile to start from was from me and it took me a lot of time too to read a lot of coding stuff and trying things out )

However, Gary wrote the very good UDF

And so why not just use the UDF again - whats the problem to use it?