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Hi

I always saw some applications they have beautiful gui,just like bitmap systembar etc,looks like this:


it is cute, and I want my prog has same ui, how to do that?
I know none like that is nothing but only specious.
But I always regard my progs as my girl (:P though i'm single), i hope she is the most beautiful one, not only inside,but also outside.

Terry

there' s also an example on my website (http://www.effervescence.com), a keygen template =)

Basicly to do this you need to create a window skeleton on screen with no title bar or borders.

   call CreateWindowExA,NULL,\ 

                offset[ClassName],\ 

                offset[AppName],\ 

                WS_POPUP or WS_VISIBLE,\

                400,\ 

                300,\ 

                116,\ 

                79,\ 

                NULL,\ 

                NULL,\ 

                wc.hInstance,\ 

                NULL 

Then you need to draw on your custom UI in the WM_Paint structure. Handle any buttons click/move/whatever in their respective structures in the WndProc.

Here is an example of making a custom close button:

...

.ELSEIF uMsg==WM_LBUTTONUP	

 .IF (check uMsg for click in the button coordinates)

  call SendMessageA, HWnd,WM_CLOSE, NULL,NULL

 .ENDIF

...

You can make it as simple or complicating as you need ranging from what I wrote your own widgits and skinning system:)

Oops I forgot this link... I think you will find it very very usefull,
as it is a demo of what you want :)

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ernies_world/cc.htm

you have to learn how to handle the windows gdi api's...
first i thought thats pretty hard but it became very easy
now... you should rather play around with memoryDC's
and Bitblitting instaed of analysing enormous 10000-line
progs... you'll find very simple examples in hutchs newest
masm pack (examples8/mob/cws)... both cws (custom-
windows-skin) progs have a little bug (WM_ERASEBKGND).
if you want to see a fully working do-nothing GUI then
check out this:

***
damn tripod :(