[wx-dev] wxMSW: Themed borders?

[Robin Dunn]

Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:26:14 -0800 Robin Dunn <robin at alldunn.com> wrote:

> RD> I've done a bit of googling today and it looks like the way this has =

> RD> been solved by others so far is to handle WM_NCPAINT and draw the bor=
der =

> RD> there.
> RD> =

> RD> http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/RichTextBoxEx.asp
> RD> http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/w-p/win32/tutorials/article.php/c8729__1/
> RD> http://www.shorterpath.com/develop/zonearticles/ThemedCustomControl.a=
sp
> =

>  This is the standard Windows way of doing this. =


Ok, I've started grafting in some native themed border drawing into =

wxMSW, see attached patch.  Unfortunately there are no more style bits =

left in the range used by border styles, so for now I've just stolen =

wxBORDER_DOUBLE.  Any suggestions for what to do instead?  I've thought =

about piggy backing on wxBORDER_SUNKEN instead, since that maps to =

WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE and with that style the native widgets draw a themed =

border.  However if I do that then I'd have to decide when to let the =

native border drawing happen, and when to do my custom drawing, that =

might get kinda tricky so I'd rather keep it a separate style, but there =

aren't any available...  I'd like to be able to do this for 2.8 so that =

rules out adding a new member.  Any other ideas?

-- =

Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
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