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Minor Update and GuiWindowCtrl Gripe/Fix?

Name:	Rob Parton
Date Posted:	Feb 02, 2007
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Today, for the first time in a few weeks I had a chance to mess around with some interface stuff. I haven't had much of a chance in the last month or so since moving again, but I did have lots of time to think.

The first was to do an interestly different window frame. After some suggestions from a few friends I did come up with something. Namely, this:

Not too bad, kinda pretty. However, I did realize something very quickly. I was having issues when trying to drag the window around. After a bit of frustration I decided to look at the actual source, and found the following in GuiWindowCtrl::onWake()....

   mTitleHeight = buttonHeight + 4;
   mResizeRightWidth = mTitleHeight / 2;
   mResizeBottomHeight = mTitleHeight / 2;

That would be why mine wasn't working particularly well! So, I changed it to...

   mTitleHeight = mBitmapBounds[BorderTopLeftKey].extent.y;
   mResizeRightWidth = mBitmapBounds[BorderRight].extent.x;
   mResizeBottomHeight = mBitmapBounds[BorderBottom].extent.y;

There! Now the zones for resizing and moving the window are based on the specific skin and not hard coded!

Huzzah!

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Gustavo Boni (Feb 02, 2007 at 01:12 GMT)

Looks pretty good!!

James Spellman (Feb 02, 2007 at 05:54 GMT)

Very, very nice!

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