Computer Science Canada How to create interactive buttons? |
| Author: | Ashi_Mashi2 [ Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | How to create interactive buttons? |
Hey guys....i want to know how can i create the interactive buttons in VB..like the ones that Win XP uses (turns blue on mouse-over) or the ones in MSN plus..thanks |
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| Author: | Tony [ Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:37 am ] | ||
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I haven't done VB in a long while, but I think in the code window, you select your object from a dropdown in top left, and event from top right (or something like that. So. myButton -> mouseOver
don't forget to change it back when the mouse is no longer over. I don't remember which event that is, but it's there  |
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| Author: | Ashi_Mashi2 [ Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:11 pm ] |
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thanks....but, i wanna know if there's any special application/api that would automatically convert the buttons to the cool ones...i dont want to define everything for it;)....thx |
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| Author: | Tony [ Fri Apr 22, 2005 6:13 pm ] |
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I donno.. if you use an array of buttons instead, you'd have to define everything just once. |
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| Author: | Brightguy [ Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: How to create interactive buttons? |
There's a MouseMove event, but from that alone you can't tell when the cursor has moved off the button. You could use the Form_MouseMove event to tell that, but it's not perfect. Alternatively, you could try the GetCursorPos winAPI function. If you want all of your buttons to have a special feature, you could start your own ActiveX control and write the necessary code in that, and then use that control in place of the normal command buttons. |
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| Author: | betaflye [ Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:32 pm ] |
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http://www.ingenuware.com/ makes some Visual BASIC activex controls which may be helpful to achieve some "flash" to your program. ImpulseStudio 3 has some button controls I find particularly useful and pretty. The timer, multimedia and new form controls are nice, it's particularily expensive though given it's for VB6 only and hasn't been updated in a while. |
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