I would like to draw a wxMenu where the items are drawn as bitmaps with a size of my choosing. I know I can call SetBitmap etc on a wxMenuItem, but that leaves space on both the left right for the item label etc.
I know how to do this using MFC, where I would subclass CMenu and override DrawItem and MeasureItem so it should at least be possible with the native windows controls.
Is it possible to subclass wxMenu to get the behavior I want?
You can override OnMeasureItem() and OnDrawItem() in your own wxMenuItem subclass, but this will indeed work under MSW only.
You might also want to take a look at the ownerdraw sample.
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I recently started learning C++ and wxWidgets and now I'm building a calculator program. I have a grid sizer with buttons and I want to know is it possible to change the font of the whole sizer instead of changing the font of every single button?
Sizers are not windows and so don't have any font, so, no, you can't just call SetFont() on a sizer. You can iterate over all sizer items and call SetFont() on each item which is a window. Or, somewhat less efficiently (because you "waste" a window), but more conveniently, you can make all your button children of a wxPanel and associate the existing sizer with this panel. Then you'd be able to call SetFont() on the panel, which is a window, and so would propagate the font change to all of its children by default.
Another solution might be to create a child of wxButton that will take the number in constructor and change the font there.
How can I create a triangular pushbutton in Qt? What is the most simplest way of executing this? I use the designer to create buttons and not code.
Also, I read somewhere that shapes may be changed as long as the frame of the button is still rectangular but I want the frame to adjust according to the shape as well. How can I achieve this?
More detail: I want to place lots of small triangular buttons next to each other with every other triangle flipped. Each triangle button has it's own function, etc (no overlapping borders accepted). Can anyone give me a descriptive explanation for how I might go about this?
The geometry on a QWidget is always a rectangle.
It would be possible to create a QPushButton derivative, override its paintevent and do some nasty painting considering its neighborhood etc. but it would be really a pain...
it is much easier to use a QGraphicsView, QGraphicsScene and add appropriate QGraphicsItem (maybe the QGraphicsPolygonItem?), add them and use their signals/slots or create a derived class for your purposes.
It is not that hard to override the mouseevents to recognize clicks and you can even use the QStyleSheets to let the "button" look like it gets pressed.
I have a list control. I want to draw selection rectangle on my own.
For example: when i clicked on an item it will draw an selection ractangle on that item and the item is next to it (or can be somewhere else).
Can anybody tell me how to do that ?
Thank you!
To draw a focus rectangle, call the DrawFocusRect function. To enable Visual Styles, call the DrawThemeBackground function (Parts and States: LBCP_ITEM and LBPSI_SELECTED).
Either way, you will have to create an owner-drawn List Box to be able to adjust rendering. For an MFC CListBox control you have to override at least CListBox::DrawItem (and usually also CListBox::MeasureItem).
Ok, so my intention is to "prettify" a UI I'm working on. I'm familiar with using GDI+ to manually draw my controls but my target today is simply BitBlitting png's on my DC directly.
That works nice and fine with the main frame, a few buttons and perhaps some menus.
My question is - how would you skin something more complicated like a combobox, listview or more "dynamic" controls using such skins?
Thank you. My target platform is Windows and I'm using C++ with the wxWidgets framework.
To 'skin' an existing control you'll have to subclass the window and catch the draw messages.
roughly:
// Subclass the control
WNDPROC lpfnOldCtrlProc;
lpfnOldCtrlProc = (WNDPROC)SetWindowLong(ControlHwnd, GWL_WNDPROC,
(DWORD)WinSubClassFunc );
and in your WinSubClassFunc:
switch( message )
{
case WM_DRAWITEM: // owner-draw the item
However, if you want to fully 'skin' a control e.g. change all elements of a ComboBox (border, entrybox, dropdown button, droplist etc.) then this becomes really messy.
Personally, I find it is easier to create your own control from scratch than try to subclass an existing control which consists of multiple window items.
The above methods works fine for e.g. using a standard combobox with a droplist and subclass it to make it contain a droplist of colour bars.
I'm trying to skin a QScrollBar by reimplementing the paintEvent function, but I'm having trouble. I can't find any information on the buttons on the scroll bar, and I can only find (limited) information on the actual slider (the handle you can grab and drag). I looked at the QStyle as well and it still only gives information on the scroll handle and not the buttons. Hardcoding or using magic numbers is not an option because the buttons are placed differently on different operating systems (see: Here). Is there any way to programmatically get the layout of the Scrollbar, so I could accurately render the buttons and scroll handle at their correct positions?
As the painting itself is done by underlying style, not QScrollBar itself I'd suggest following:
Use QProxyStyle to override painting of QScrollBar.
This is how does Qt paints QScrollBar. You can alternate that
As alternative I'd suggest using Qt Style Sheets to change QScrollBar look'n'feel