PB10 - Spinner control

[Patrice Terrier]

Meditation, will lead you to God's karma...

No screen shot, you wil have to try it, to figure out

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[Patrice Terrier]

The Zen man, is nice to tell your user that he must wait a little...


Butterfly, would always pleased to the ladies.


And spiral_knot, are for the geek like myself.

[Brice Manuel]

These are amazing, Patrice.  Awesome work!

[Theo Gottwald]

Karma ... Zen. Are we going the spiritual way, Patrice?
Your Work is awesome as always.

PS: Don't try to improve, in your expertise you have reached a level that you can not beat.

[Patrice Terrier]

Brice, Theo,

thanks.

I should have some more on my back burner...

[Patrice Terrier]

As an answer to Randall Glass

Here is a transparent png, using variable opacity, to use it, just drag and drop "broken_glass.png" onto FWS.exe.
In order to get rid of it, select the image, then press the ESCAPE key, or ALT-F4.

By the way that shows you that FWS.exe is able to display static image as well as animation, as long as the image fit within a square (same width and height).

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[Patrice Terrier]

Here is a melting pot:

• GreenEffect
• LightDrop
• PleaseWait
• Shade01
• Shade02
• Shade03
• Water01

[Brice Manuel]

I love the water one.

[Jean-Pierre Leroy]

Hi Patrice,

I would like to know where I can find the latest version of your Spinner Control.

Did you encountered some issues using it with Windows 10 ?

Thanks
Jean-Pierre

[Patrice Terrier]

Jean Pierre

What's your problem with Windows 10 ?

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[Jean-Pierre Leroy]

I use the Spinner control on Windows 10 with a dual screen:

- When hParent value is 0 the animation is displayed everytime (perfect) but on the main screen (which is normal).

- When hParent is the handle of the main form of my application, the animation is not displayed everytime: sometimes yes sometimes no; I don't know why.

PS: I use the Spinner control with FireFly; I don't know if that could be related or not.

Regards,
Jean-Pierre

[Patrice Terrier]

Jean-Pierre

I am using nothing fancy, just the regular MoveWindow API to center the spinner control within the window rectangle of its parent like this:

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       IF ghWnd THEN
          LOCAL rw AS RECT
          CALL GetWindowRect(hParent, rw)
          CALL MoveWindow(ghWnd, rw.nLeft + ((rw.nRight - rw.nLeft - gnH) * 0.5), rw.nTop + ((rw.nBottom - rw.nTop - gnH) * 0.5), gnH, gnH, 0)

          SELECT CASE LONG gnFrameCount ' Compute animation's speed
          CASE < 4:  gnUseSpeed = 300
          CASE < 8:  gnUseSpeed = 200
          CASE < 12: gnUseSpeed = 150
          CASE < 20: gnUseSpeed = 100
          CASE ELSE: gnUseSpeed = 60
          END SELECT
          CALL SetTimer(ghWnd, 1, gnUseSpeed * 0.5, %NULL)
       END IF

ghWnd is the handle of the spinner control, while hParent is the handle of the parent being used when you call zSpinnerInit.

I have no idea of what FireFly is doing, i stop using it since the introduction of the CWindow class that also breaks the WinLIFT code.

No problem by me with multiple monitors, but i am using the one from GDImage (ZI_SpinnerInit) that is a regular DLL.

The best i can do, is to send you the source code that was used to create the SLL.

To detect if that is a FireFly problem or not, just create an empty window with a single button to fire the control once you have moved the main window to the secondary display.

Also you must be aware that there is a random memory error with the latest PB's version that has never been fixed.
(REDIM, ARRAY SCAN)

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[Jean-Pierre Leroy]

Patrice thank you for you answer.

I made the test with an empty window with a single button to fire the control: it works 

So It could be something else in my source code 

Thanks,
Jean-Pierre