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I made a skinned window based on SafcOn's little tutorial on his page.. compiled all my resourses needed and packed in a true color .bmp into the exe. The program works perfectly (i made it as a gift to a friend who just had a baby (the skin is a round picture frame with the baby photo... ahhh aint that nice :) ) My problem is it doenst work on Windows95 only... worked perfectly on ME and 98/98SE but not 95... Im totaly at a loss here because there is no fancy api calles. For this reason i can only assume it had something to do with the way the res got converted to .obj befor linking... does anyone know of such problems or has seen something like this in the past??? While i was playing around with the resorce compiler i got a "not 3.0 bitmap" error once (before i settled on the final .bmp), could it be a standard thing for bitmaps between win95 and win98?? The windows95 users only see a " big green dot " on the screen (~~ the green is the set transparancy color when i compiled the RGN file outa the bitmap ) Code wise, the program still functions as normally, just the bmp is only a bmp for 98 or better users... :( Thanx again. NaN

Ya, it works perfectly on win95... has the right graphical shape (an oval) without windowed edges.. just when it should display the pixel info it choses one color for all (green) ~ a big green dot! This is the setup code:

.data
        RsrcName	db "RANGE",0
	    RsrcType	db "RGN",0
	    RsrcHand	dd 0
	    RsrcSize	dd 0
	    RsrcPoint	dd 0
	    ClientPoint	POINT <>
    	xform		XFORM <>
    	DlgRect		RECT <>

.code
 ...
      m2m wc.hInstance,      hInst
      invoke LoadBitmap,hInst,1000
      invoke CreatePatternBrush,eax
      mov wc.hbrBackground,  eax
      mov wc.lpszMenuName,   NULL
      mov wc.lpszClassName,  offset szClassName
      invoke LoadIcon, hInstance, IDI_XANDER
      mov hIcon, eax
      m2m wc.hIcon,          hIcon
      m2m wc.hIconSm,           hIcon
      invoke LoadCursor,NULL,IDC_ARROW
      mov wc.hCursor,        eax
      m2m wc.hIconSm,        hIcon
      invoke RegisterClassEx, ADDR wc

      ;================================
      ; Centre window at following size
      ;================================

      mov Wwd, 294
      mov Wht, 263

      invoke GetSystemMetrics,SM_CXSCREEN
      invoke TopXY,Wwd,eax
      mov Wtx, eax

      invoke GetSystemMetrics,SM_CYSCREEN
      invoke TopXY,Wht,eax
      mov Wty, eax
        ifdef DEBUGC
          push eax
          DPrint "About to create the window"
          pop eax
        endif        

      invoke CreateWindowEx,WS_EX_LEFT,
                            ADDR szClassName,
                            ADDR szDisplayName,
                            WS_POPUP,
                            Wtx,Wty,Wwd,Wht,
                            NULL,NULL,
                            hInst,NULL
      mov   hWnd,eax

      invoke LoadMenu,hInst,600  ; menu ID
      invoke SetMenu,hWnd,eax
      invoke ShowWindow,hWnd,SW_SHOWNORMAL
      invoke UpdateWindow,hWnd
     
      ...

    .elseif uMsg == WM_CREATE
	    ;Find the resource handle
	 invoke	FindResource,hInstance,addr RsrcName,addr RsrcType
	 mov	RsrcHand, eax

        ;Load the resource data
	invoke	LoadResource,hInstance,eax
	mov	RsrcPoint, eax

        ;Get the total size of the resource
	invoke	SizeofResource,hInstance,RsrcHand
	mov	RsrcSize, eax

        ;Get a valid pointer to the data
	invoke	LockResource,RsrcPoint
	mov	RsrcPoint, eax
	
	;calculate x & y decals of the RGN
	mov	ClientPoint.x, 0
	mov	ClientPoint.y, 0
	invoke	GetWindowRect,hWnd,addr DlgRect
	invoke	ClientToScreen,hWnd,addr ClientPoint
	mov	eax, ClientPoint.x
	sub	eax, DlgRect.left
	mov	xform.ex, eax
	mov	eax, ClientPoint.y
	sub	eax, DlgRect.top
	mov	xform.ey, eax
	
	;set the scaling values (there, no particular scaling -> 1)
	mov	xform.eM11, 1
	mov	xform.eM22, 1

	
	;Convert Integers to Floating Point values
	Int2Real32	xform.eM11
	Int2Real32	xform.eM22
	Int2Real32	xform.ex
	Int2Real32	xform.ey
	
	;Finally call our function
	
	invoke	ExtCreateRegion,addr xform,RsrcSize,RsrcPoint
	invoke	SetWindowRgn,hWin,eax,TRUE

And the RC file:

#define IDI_XANDER            500
IDI_XANDER       ICON   MOVEABLE PURE LOADONCALL DISCARDABLE "Xander.ico"

RANGE RGN "cut3.rgn"
1000 BITMAP "fin.bmp"

The RGN file was built with a RGN creator tool SaFcOn packed with his tutorial. Fin.bmp is the bitmap that apprears on 98 or better machines.. NaN This message was edited by NaN, on 2/8/2001 7:25:25 PM