TobWen
4th June 2006 12:29 UTC

label transparents with background-image
Hey,

I've created a custom page with an image in the background.
Of course, the text-labels have gray background.

I've changed them the normal way (SetCtlColors).
It's possible to set every color, but transparency is always set to gray.
I think, it sets the color of the dialog behind the image, not the image itself.

Is there a work-around? I've searched already, but didn't find a working solution :(

Best regards,
Tobias

Afrow UK
4th June 2006 12:33 UTC

You may need to refresh the control. Easiest way to do this is to hide the control and then show it again using:

ShowWindow $R0 ${SW_HIDE}
ShowWindow $R0 ${SW_SHOW}

-Stu

TobWen
4th June 2006 12:46 UTC

thanks ... it works!

TobWen
4th June 2006 13:33 UTC

  ; Give labels a transparent background
  GetDlgItem $0 $0 1200
  SetCtlColors $0 0xFFFFFF transparent
  GetDlgItem $0 $0 1208
  SetCtlColors $0 0xFFFFFF transparent

  ; Reload window
  GetDlgItem $0 $HWNDPARENT 1
  ShowWindow $0 ${SW_HIDE}
  ShowWindow $0 ${SW_SHOW}

Afrow UK
4th June 2006 14:04 UTC

You should change controls in the parent window (i.e. Next button, Back button etc) in .onGUIInit.

If you're using Modern UI then you'd need to !define MUI_CUSTOMFUNCTION_GUIINIT onGUIInit

-Stu

TobWen
4th June 2006 14:30 UTC

I mean checkboxes and their labels. I'm using classic UI.

But why is just the first label changed (1200) and not the second (1208) ?

Afrow UK
4th June 2006 18:19 UTC

Are you using Windows XP and XPStyle on?

-Stu

TobWen
4th June 2006 18:22 UTC

WinXP and XPStyle OFF :-)

Afrow UK
4th June 2006 18:25 UTC

Please attach the entire code in question.

-Stu

TobWen
4th June 2006 18:43 UTC

here it is ...

Afrow UK
4th June 2006 19:53 UTC

Hmm strange. Transparent doesn't seem to be working for it at all. And by the way, the control ID is 1210 for the check box (it's Field 8 - 1 + 3)... +3 because each DirRequest control has two controls; the text box and the command button.

Interestingly, if I use transparent for its background and use XPStyle on, the background turns black!

Perhaps you should contact kichik about this (or wait for him to reply).

-Stu

TobWen
5th June 2006 17:41 UTC

LoL ... I just realized the crap I wrote in topic :-))

"label transparents" ... OMG :-)

kichik
16th June 2006 09:08 UTC

Check boxes are a bit problematic:

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....x+setctlcolors

TobWen
18th June 2006 23:35 UTC

It doesn't even work with labels :-(

kichik
30th June 2006 21:49 UTC

At least for the labels, you're using the wrong dialog item id. You should read the HWND value from the INI after calling initDialog. It's much simpler than calculating the correct id. To get the HWND of the browse button, read HWND2. Use:

ReadINIStr $0 "$PLUGINSDIR\options.ini" "Field 2" "HWND"
SetCtlColors $0 0x000000 transparent

ReadINIStr $0 "$PLUGINSDIR\options.ini" "Field 3" "HWND"
SetCtlColors $0 0x000000 transparent

ReadINIStr $0 "$PLUGINSDIR\options.ini" "Field 8" "HWND"
SetCtlColors $0 0x000000 transparent