Re: ImageList_GetImageInfo - alter the bitmap(s) ?

On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 19:11:02 +0200
"R.Wieser" <[email protected]> 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
> 
> 


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