resize icon on the fly

[picea892]

Hi

Thought I'd see if there was a better way of doing this. I can provide code for the options I've explored if needed but think this is simple enough to just describe it.

What I want to do is resize an icon when the mouse hovers over it similar to a Mac interface. I have successfully done this three different ways but am still not satisfied with the quality of the icon or the amount of flicker.

Option#1

Description: Create icon at 32x32 onhover delete icon and create 48x48 icon.

result: good quality icons but with flicker

Option#2

Description: Create icon at 48x48 and resize guictrl to 32x32 before showing. On mousehover, GUICtrlSetPos resized to 48x48

result: 32x32 sized icon has poor quality, flicker is probably best for the options

Option#3

Description: Create icon at 32x32 onhover GUICtrlSetData and create 48x48 icon.

result: good quality icons but with flicker

Is there any other way to do this? I think I'm leaning towards option 3 at this point.

Thanks in advance for any advice

[WideBoyDixon]

Without seeing the UI it's tricky but perhaps you could create both icons at the beginning and show/hide on mousehover. That is, have two icons and when the mouse hovers over the first one, hide it and show the other one (or simply show the other one over the top).

WBD

[picea892]

I'll give it a try.

Never have much luck with hiding guictrls and showing them again. I guess I could move the icons off the screen and make the swap when needed.

Thanks

[Richard Robertson]

You'll need to handle drawing yourself to prevent flicker. Windows will redraw the background of a standard control before drawing the foreground. That is unavoidable.

[picea892]

How do I draw it myself? Do you mean something like _WinAPI_DrawIconEx

[Richard Robertson]

You'll need to do custom drawing of the entire control. I'm not the person to ask about drawing in AutoIt. I never work with AutoIt's GUI code.