Early WIP on v2.55

[Patrice Terrier]

Sooner or later i shall have more leave weeks than i want to

[Michael Lobko-Lobanovsky]

We are all gonna have them unavoidably, my friend, in our due time and I think it isn't very rewarding to concentrate on such thoughts too deeply. Let's praise the Lord for allowing us to still enjoy ourselves hobbying while too many of our good friends and relatives are long gone...

[Patrice Terrier]

My friend

What did you do to create the gray background behind the png ObjReader logo?

I managed to change the white background to RGB(192,192,192) as you can see on the screen shot.

[Michael Lobko-Lobanovsky]

MS Word allows the embedded image objects to be put behind the text and be sized larger than the page they reside on. If the image is detailed and large enough, then magnification isn't going to impair its visible quality. I own MS Office 2007 but perhaps later version also allow small images to be tiled in the background rather than stretched/magnified? I don't know...

At any rate, such approach isn't very practical in use cases because the large image should then be cloned in every .FILES folder of the .HTMs it is used in. Probably it can be used in the style sheet rather than individual files of other markups like e.g. XML/XMS and thus be applied once to every content file in the bunch but I don't know for sure.

[Patrice Terrier]

Do you know if it is possible to change the text color and background of the selected item in a ListView, without using CUSTOMDRAW ?

[Michael Lobko-Lobanovsky]

To the best of my knowledge, not with WinAPI. You've got to use CUSTOMDRAW tricks to return a custom color brush handle to the system. Some modern languages have it hardcoded under the hood, so they expose the Foreground/BackgroundColor properties but inherently they are implemented via the CUSTOMDRAW mechanism.

[Patrice Terrier]

Thanks, for the confirmation, then i will go to CUSTOMDRAW 

[Patrice Terrier]

Help has been switched from LISTBOX to CUSTOMDRAW LISTVIEW.

[Michael Lobko-Lobanovsky]

Is the control's main background skinned in any way?

[Patrice Terrier]

Screen shot showing the current color, used by the CustomDraw ListView.

[Michael Lobko-Lobanovsky]

Looks good under W10, congrats!

[Michael Lobko-Lobanovsky]

Thank you Patrice,

FYI I was able to precise the bounding sphere radius calc and am now very heavily (but not very successfully yet) occupied with mesh visibility using both bounding spheres and boxes. I wanted to fix it for a long time, so I thought why not now?

[Patrice Terrier]

Thank you for the feedback, i am confident that you will solve the bounding sphere problem sooner or later

[Patrice Terrier]

Sync done, thank you!

Help shouldn't interfer with the full screen mode, see my change in red below.

void ToggleFullScreen() {

    static DWORD savedExStyle, savedStyle, screenWidth, screenHeight;
    static long OverLayVisible, AnimationVisible; // PAT: 02-05-2018
    static RECT rcSaved;
    static HRGN oldRgn = 0, newRgn = 0;
    long K = 0, nLeft = 0, nTop = 0;
    WINDOWPLACEMENT wp = { 0 };

    gP.bIsFullScreen = !gP.bIsFullScreen;

    if (GetWindowPlacement(gP.hMain, &wp)) { // 04-20-2015
        if (wp.showCmd == SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED) {
            //ShowWindow(gP.hMain, SW_RESTORE);
            skRestore(gP.hMain);
        }
    }

    if (gP.bIsFullScreen) { // Moving to full screen mode.
        long wasFPS = gP.bUseFPS; if (gP.bUseFPS) { gP.bUseFPS = FALSE; }

        GetWindowRgn(gP.hMain, oldRgn);

        GetWindowRect(gP.hMain, &rcSaved);

        AnimationVisible = IsWindowVisible(GetDlgItem(gP.hMain, IDC_ANIMATION));

        if (IsWindowVisible(gP.hHelp)) { HideHelp(); } // PAT: 12-28-2018

        for (K = IDC_FIRST; K <= IDC_LAST; K++) {

[Michael Lobko-Lobanovsky]

The fix added under an #ifndef MLL_DEV/#endif condition.