redrawing plugin skin over an external app embeded in plugin

Red Monkey · July 28th, 2006, 03:12 PM

I am creating a plugin for iguidance in CF, I have been successfull in creating a plugin that loads ig, kills the nag screen and makes ig a child window and places it neatly in the plugin area. I want to have the menu bar on the skin of my plugin show ontop of the top part of the child ig window so that I can put cf controls there to send vkeys to ig.

I am using winAPI's MoveWindow() function to ajust the position of the ig window in the plugin and i want to hide the ig menu bar under the plugin titlebar.

for example if I use: MoveWindow(mywindow, -2, -40, this.Width +2, this.Height +40, true) the result is that the ig menu bar is off the top and the window boarder off the sides and out of sight. if i canged the -40 to +51 then the ig winodw would apear below my skins menu bar but the ig menu will still be visible.

hope this makes sense, anyone have any ideas?

Red Monkey · August 1st, 2006, 01:51 AM

I have been able to get alittle more working, sorry my question above was alittle vague.

I have been able to circumvent the problem by embeding iguidance into a windows panel control and then embedding the panel into cf. The reason i chose the panel control is that i could not find a CF control that would take a IntPtr. Is there a way to do this? as it would solve part 2 below, and allow the control to have its sizes changed in the skin file.

Part 2: Assuming that i cannot use a CF control and must use the windows panel, how do i resize the panel when skin size changes?

Any thoughts on the methods i am using to solve the problem are welcome, even if you think i am going about this entirely wrong, I am sorta winging it, and might have missed a better way.

here is a screenshot

Thanks in advance,

Brian

David · August 1st, 2006, 11:01 AM

You would want to use a Panel or PictureBox, not a CF control for the embedding... CF controls are nothing more than structs with custom painting...

Look at the web browser for an example... you have a Height and Width Ratio made available to you. You multiple your X,Y,With,Height of the panel by the ratio, which will automatically be calculated for you...

david

Red Monkey · August 1st, 2006, 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by david

You would want to use a Panel or PictureBox, not a CF control for the embedding... CF controls are nothing more than structs with custom painting...

Look at the web browser for an example... you have a Height and Width Ratio made available to you. You multiple your X,Y,With,Height of the panel by the ratio, which will automatically be calculated for you...

david

perfect, thank you. I was just comming back on to ask about centrafuse.Plugins.SkinReader.widthratio and heightratio.

Will checkout the web plugin, wish i had thought of that sooner, you are probably embedding explorer. :roll:

mbkowns · August 2nd, 2006, 01:36 PM

why are you even wasting your time with IG 2.0 get 3.0 its wayyyyyyyy better.

Red Monkey · August 2nd, 2006, 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mbkowns

why are you even wasting your time with IG 2.0 get 3.0 its wayyyyyyyy better.

I have to work with what i have for now, once i get my app up and running with 2.0 I will visit another member on mp3car who lives close to me and test it on his 3.0, I will do my best to get all of the ig versions working in it.