is there skin for wxmod's?

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MOBii

(Posted 2016) [#1]

is there a mod I can use to set window skins?
set my own style and color for the interface like button, scrollbar, menubar and menus?

Derron

(Posted 2016) [#2]

I doubt that.

If "wxwidgets" would have skin-support, then maybe...

It seems, that wxwidgets could do some "theming" on windows - but only for the native widgets (it then relies on the same approaches other win32-apps might skin their controls). So some widgets look alienated then.

best bet is to create custom widgets with custom draw-functions.

bye
Ron

RustyKristi

(Posted 2016) [#3]

wx has its limitations, that's why I'm sticking to MaxGUI. If it offers skinnable options then I wouldn't mind diving into that ~500mb module :P

There's Brucey's Qt module that I saw somewhere but I'm not sure the current state of that mod.

Brucey

(Posted 2016) [#4]

wx has its limitations, that's why I'm sticking to MaxGUI

Yeah, wxWidgets is much more limited than MaxGUI :-)

RustyKristi

(Posted 2016) [#5]

haha yea Brucey, I mean in a sense that with all the gadgets wx has, if you can't even properly skin it, then I would settle for the simple MaxGUI.

Of course, as you would say, YMMV ;-)

Yeah, wxWidgets is much more limited than MaxGUI :-)

For the record, I did not compare wxWidgets to MaxGUI, I just said it has its limitations and my choice is just simple MaxGUI for that part.

MOBii

(Posted 2016) [#6]

Is it possible to only coloring the wxMenuBar or the wxMenu?
wxMenuBar has wxWindow, I can't make SetForegroundColour or SetBackgroundColour to work!

If it was possible it should be the wxMenu that Extends wxWindow?

I was drooling on UltraEdit's menu/menubar that have a mix of fontcolor for the menuitems!

Henri

(Posted 2016) [#7]

Hi,

you can change the backgroundcolour and textcolour if you wish. The way to do it is to first create the wxMenuItem, then customize it, and finally use 'AppendItem' to add your item.

Here is a minimal sample from wx folder with coloured menuitem:

SuperStrict

Framework wx.wxApp
Import wx.wxFrame

Type MyApp Extends wxApp

	Field frame:MyFrame

	Method OnInit:Int()

		frame = MyFrame(New MyFrame.Create(,,"Minimal wxWidgets App", 100, 100))

		SetTopWindow(frame)
		
		frame.show()
		
		Return True
	
	End Method

End Type

Type MyFrame Extends wxFrame

	Method OnInit()
	
		' create a menu bar
	
		Local fileMenu:wxMenu = wxMenu.CreateMenu()
		
		' the "About" item should be in the help menu
		Local helpMenu:wxMenu = wxMenu.CreateMenu()
		
		Local menu1:wxMenuItem = New wxMenuItem.Create(helpMenu, wxID_ABOUT, "&About...~tF1",  "Show about dialog")
		menu1.SetbackgroundColour(New wxColour.Create(100, 255, 255) )
		menu1.SetTextColour(New wxColour.Create(255, 100, 255) )
		
		helpMenu.AppendItem( menu1 )

		'fileMenu.Append(wxID_EXIT, "&Quit~tAlt-Q", "Quit this program")
		
		' now append the freshly created menu to the menu bar...
		Local menuBar:wxMenuBar = wxMenuBar.CreateMenuBar()
		menuBar.Append(fileMenu, "&File")
		menuBar.Append(helpMenu, "&Help")

		SetMenuBar(menuBar)
		
		' create a status bar just for fun
		CreateStatusBar(2)
		SetStatusText("Welcome to wxWidgets!")
		
		Connect(wxID_EXIT, wxEVT_COMMAND_MENU_SELECTED, OnQuit)
		Connect(wxID_ABOUT, wxEVT_COMMAND_MENU_SELECTED, OnAbout)
		
	End Method

	Function OnQuit(event:wxEvent)
		' true is to force the frame to close
		wxWindow(event.parent).Close(True)
	End Function
	
	Function OnAbout(event:wxEvent)
		
		wxMessageBox("Welcome to " + wxVERSION_STRING + "!~n" + ..
                    "~n" + ..
                    "This is the minimal wxWidgets sample~n" + ..
                    "running under " + wxGetOsDescription() + ".", ..
                 "About wxWidgets minimal sample", ..
                 wxOK | wxICON_INFORMATION, wxWindow(event.parent))
		
	End Function
	
End Type

New MyApp.run()

EDIT: Did you mean just the menu bar ? For that there is atleast Windows solution which requires the use of Windows API as seen here.

-Henri

MOBii

(Posted 2016) [#8]

Thank thee Henri, you make my life little brighter today too!

I do it on the wrong order as usual!

I catch the wxMenuItem when it was on the menubar already
Then I could only change the ItemLabel: SetItemLabel("Quit2~tCtrl-Q")
but not the SetTextColour and the SetBackgroundColour

the Secret was that I need to change the SetTextColour and the SetBackgroundColour before I AppendItem/Insert!
Then I could change: wxITEM_CHECK, wxITEM_RADIO, wxITEM_DROPDOWN and wxITEM_NORMAL

I still can't for:
ppendSeparator() or New wxMenuItem.Create(MOBii_Menu[q].Menu, id, Txt, Inf, wxITEM_SEPARATOR) or AppendSubMenu
and for the SetTitle area

Sorry I don't understand howto convert the wxPython example

Can I somehow

import win32con
from ctypes import *
import sys

Do this in BlitzMax?

Correction:
wxITEM_DROPDOWN is working fine!
New wxMenuItem.Create(MOBii_Menu[q].Menu, id, Title, Null, wxITEM_DROPDOWN, submenu)

AppendSubMenu can't set color!

MOBii

(Posted 2016) [#9]

Original AppendSeparator:

MOBii_Menu[q].Menu.AppendSeparator()

Try set background color to the Separator:

Local mtm:wxMenuItem = MOBii_Menu[q].Menu.AppendSeparator()
SetMenuColor(q, mtm)			' set the SetTextColour and the SetBackgroundColour
MOBii_Menu[q].Menu.AppendItem(mtm)	' Add the AppendSeparator with the color

As expected I get 2 Separator but the second one still no color!

MOBii

(Posted 2016) [#10]

Thank thee Henri, the menu look more vivid now

I still can't set background color for the separator or the menubar, but make the separator the whole menu width, the separator still look OKish!