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sudeer,

Contrary to the documentation, I have never got a standard button to work with changed colours.

    .elseif uMsg == WM_CTLCOLORBTN



      invoke SetBkMode,wParam,OPAQUE

      invoke SetBkColor,wParam,0000FF00h

      invoke SetTextColor,wParam,0000FF00h



      mov lb.lbStyle, BS_SOLID

      mov lb.lbColor, 0000FF00h

      mov lb.lbHatch, NULL



      invoke CreateBrushIndirect,ADDR lb  ; return is in eax

      ret

This is the type of code that it should use, it just does not work. Maybe someone else has got it to work on win95 ?

Regards,

hutch@movsd.com

may be i have to change some of the codes in this RC FILE
Here is my RC file if i include BS_OWNERDRAWN the button is going to disappear,i do not know what do you mean by an owner drawn button

IDD_ADD DIALOG 45,20,205,140 ;X ,Y ,WIDTH ,HIGHT
STYLE DS_MODALFRAME|WS_VISIBLE|WS_CAPTION|WS_SYSMENU|WS_MINIMIZEBOX
CAPTION "ADD NAME"
FONT 9, "MS Sans Serif"

BEGIN
GROUPBOX "",-1,3,1,195,70
CTEXT "Name ",12,10,12,40,11,SS_SYSGRP
EDITTEXT 413,60,12,130,12, ES_UPPERCASE
GROUPBOX "",-1,12,100,182,28
PUSHBUTTON "Yes" ,IDYES ,22,110,40,12,WS_CHILD
PUSHBUTTON "No" ,IDNO ,82,110,40,12,WS_CHILD
PUSHBUTTON "Cancel",IDCANCEL,142,110,40,12,WS_CHILD
END
regards,
sudeer@37.com

sudeer,

BS_OWNERDRAW style buttons are pretty crappy stuff leftover from win3.? A custom control is a better way to go. There are a few examples in MASM32 of custom buttons and a proper custom control in the MASM32 library that will handle different UP and DOWN bitmaps.

Regards,

hutch@movsd.com

Thanks for the suggestion sluggy but on my win95b, it just does not work.

    .elseif uMsg == WM_CTLCOLORBTN

        invoke CreateSolidBrush, 000000FFh

        ret

Maybe its version specific ?

Regards,

hutch@movsd.com

hutch,
yep, you have to move out of the dark ages some time :)

There are some advantages in developing with an antique operating system, its no longer updated by Microsoft so its actually stable.

The main reason apart from the speed is that most computers around the world running 32 bit windows are running win95 on old hardware so writing stuff that does not work on the majority of computers is out.

Regards,

hutch@movsd.com

I am not shure I understand what the fuzz is about.

MyProc proc arg:DWORD

	LOCAL	var:DWOED



	call MySub

	ret



MySub:



	retn



MyProc endp

Does nothing weird and is fully recursive and is sometimes very useful.

KetilO

Oh, sorry, wrong thread.

Hahahaha,

f0dder, stop trying to make me laugh.

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That is just bullshit and you should know better, hutch. An operating system that randomly shits itself and can't handle null pointer errors... I wouldn't exactly call that stable. And the reason it's not updated anymore? It's obsolete and is being phased out.
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I also have the last version released of win98se on a technically perfect P4 with 100 gig of disk space and 768 meg of ram and its a slow fragile pig with bad manners and other irritating glitches.

The version of NT4 I have on my old AMD is a lot better with service pack 6a in it. It only took !!!! 6 !!!! versions of service packs to get it right as it was another slow bad mannered pig that suffered from very poor hardware support and very ordinary peformance.

Is it strange that my PIII 600 is generally faster to use that my P4. Later box benchmarks better but is slow to use with its piggish interface and thats with all the junk turned off.

Nah, I run win95b because it faster and generally more reliable than others I have seen. I can also fix it in 5 minutes with a ghost image. Its main adbvantage though is that it is stable at last, everything works well and nothing else will be changed so as long as the majority of the world uses win95, I have a good reason to continue using it.

Its demise will be when my PIII dies and that will be some time yet.

ANOTHER Win2k bug. (Muhahahaha)

Loss of precision in floating point maths after calling "MessageBox".

I nearly died laughing.

Regards,

hutch@movsd.com

wakeup old man! someone needs to take your cane from you and whack you in the head!

its hard to teach an old dog new tricks hutch. i just wanted to let you know there's another world out there and if your willing to open up you might realize what your missing.

as far as your windows 98 is concered get rid of it as soon as you can. thats the most unrealiable windows os ive ever used. and if you do come out of your hole dont you dare get window me either, thats another bad situation all in its own.

Alex,

Thanks for the info, I personally prefer custom controls for non standard buttons, works on all Windows versions and is a lot more flexible than tweaking system based stuff.

Smurf,

never fear, i will not go down the road of ME, it cannot normally be started up in DOS so I don't want it. My next box will probably have win2k after they succeed in debugging it properly, SP2 is clearly a flop and I refuse to pay for stuff that I have to debug the OS to get it going.

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wakeup old man! someone needs to take your cane from you and whack you in the head!
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You have to watch us "old fellas", we full of surprises. Years ago when I had a broken leg from a motorcycle accident, I had to use a cane occasionally while I was recovering and there are a very useful set of defence techniques using a walking cane. :tongue:

Regards,

hutch@movsd.com