GUI Toolkit

[frank]

Hi, where I can find a GUI toolkit to build graphical GUI like Winamp (non-rectangular dialog, bitmap) Thanks

[Andrei Zenkovitch]

Hi, It is pretty easy to display a non-rectangular window by using SetWindowRgn() function. The painting of the background of any window using a bitmap is a bit more difficult as long as you would probably need to work with DIBs (Device Independent Bimap) but shouldn't be that big of a deal. As for the GUI toolkit you might take look at the Dundas (www.dundas.com) Ultimate Toolbox (it has classes that handle irregular shaped windows and background painting). or you might try to find some free classes on this site that will help you to solve your problem Regards, Andrei Zenkovitch ================== The original message was: Hi, where I can find a GUI toolkit to build graphical GUI like Winamp (non-rectangular dialog, bitmap)

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[mrcoder]

There are a couple a shareware programs designed just for this. I believe nullsoft, the makers of winamp, used one of them for their product. One product is called ActiveSkin and it looks like the one of choice. The second product, and the one I believe nullsoft used escapes me right now. I remember doing a search for skins and coming across a site that claimed to make the product of choice for nullsoft. I will look into it and get back to you. However once again, the ActiveSkin product was newer, more impressive, and less expensive. The product of choice. ================== The original message was: Hi, where I can find a GUI toolkit to build graphical GUI like Winamp (non-rectangular dialog, bitmap)

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[mjf]

Check out www.freeamp.org for the source to a winamp clone has exactly what you want. ================== The original message was: Hi, where I can find a GUI toolkit to build graphical GUI like Winamp (non-rectangular dialog, bitmap)

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