XPost: alt.windows7.general, comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32   
   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 19:11:02 +0200   
   "R.Wieser"  wrote:   
      
   > Newyana2,   
   >   
   > > GDI gets very complicated. Gdiplus is worse.   
   >   
   > I've used both, but have not tried anything complicated with it.   
   >   
   > > Recently I've been working on functionality to change caret width   
   > > and color in a text window. The way to do it is to use a bitmap.   
   >   
   > That makes me remember something ..Oh yes, there it is.  Maybe its useful to   
   > you :   
   >   
   > https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240916-00/?p=110272   
   >   
   > > But in VB6 there's the Picturebox control. Lightweight   
   > > and it wraps a lot of GDI ops.   
   > ...   
   > > Maybe you have something like that with Borland?   
   >   
   > :-) Thats the nice thing of using an Assembler : No programming-language   
   > provided wrappers around anything, you have to (understand and) write all of   
   > them yourself.   
      
   Unless you use libraries aznd function calls extensively.   
   >   
   > ... which is also its downside.   
   >   
   > But with me being me I normally have little problem with that.  Even though   
   > that leads to problems as my current one.   
   >   
   > > I sometimes use Image controls and sometimes use resources,   
   > > but never an imagelist.   
   >   
   > If you have ever used a List- or TreeView showing icons (including   
   > sorting-direction arrows and tickboxes) than you have used an ImageList.   
   >   
   > Regards,   
   > Rudy Wieser   
   >   
   >   
      
      
   --   
   Bah, and indeed Humbug.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)