question new to the group

[Nathan Hack]

Ok here's the deal.  I wanted to start helping but i've been reading the auncments and stuff but i did see this topic come up. So i thought i would just through it out and see what the wine community had to say.  I have build a few (simple)delphi programs test wine out to start working on it(wine that is).   
fixme:commctrl:FlatSB_SetScrollProp stub
ok my question is this since this API is no longer in windows ( Comctl32.dll version 6 and higher do not support flat scroll bars) show i go ahead and write in the code or just go find something else more productive? If this is a stupid question just let me know like( hey it's in the doc's on wine and heres the web site.... ) that would be great.
Thanks,
-NH
-Better living through Wine-

[Robert Shearman]

Hi Nathan,

Welcome to the world of Wine!

Implementing FlatSB support shouldn't be too hard. You just will need to
subclass the window passed into the initialization function and then handle
the messages just like in the ordinary scroll bars. Making them look 'hot'
is relatively easy - just look at the code in toolbar.c (and now rebar.c for
the chevron). It would be nice to have FlatSB support in Wine for
completeness. My MSDN docs don't say anything about them being deprecated or
absent from comctl32 v6. Where did you find this out from?

Rob

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Subject: question new to the group

Ok here's the deal.  I wanted to start helping but i've been reading the
auncments and stuff but i did see this topic come up. So i thought i would
just through it out and see what the wine community had to say.  I have
build a few (simple)delphi programs test wine out to start working on
it(wine that is).
fixme:commctrl:FlatSB_SetScrollProp stub
ok my question is this since this API is no longer in windows ( Comctl32.dll
version 6 and higher do not support flat scroll bars) show i go ahead and
write in the code or just go find something else more productive? If this is
a stupid question just let me know like( hey it's in the doc's on wine and
heres the web site.... ) that would be great.
Thanks,
-NH
-Better living through Wine-

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On November 18, 2003 10:37 am, Robert Shearman wrote:
> My MSDN docs don't say anything about them being deprecated or
> absent from comctl32 v6. Where did you find this out from?

I remember seeing the same thing as well: FlatSB are no longer
supported in comctl32 v6. I wish I could point you to the exact
place, but I feel too lazy at the moment to go search for it. :)

[Marcus R. Brown]

* Dimitrie O. Paun  on Wed, Nov 19, 2003:
> On November 18, 2003 10:37 am, Robert Shearman wrote:
> > My MSDN docs don't say anything about them being deprecated or
> > absent from comctl32 v6. Where did you find this out from?
>
> I remember seeing the same thing as well: FlatSB are no longer
> supported in comctl32 v6. I wish I could point you to the exact
> place, but I feel too lazy at the moment to go search for it. :)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/flatsb/fla...

Directly below the image.

Marcus

[Mike Hearn]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:21:02 -0500, Sir Nathan Hack scribed thus:
> ok my question is this since this API is no longer in windows
> ( Comctl32.dll version 6 and higher do not support flat scroll bars)
> show i go ahead
> and write in the code or just go find something else more productive?

Well, firstly just because something is deprecated does not mean we can
skip it unfortunately :( As you have already seen, many apps use this API
and will do for years to come.

On the other hand, flat scrollbars are really useless, an entirely new
control for a simple visual style change. There's absolutely no need to
implement this control, other than perhaps to shut up the annoying fixmes,
I think our users will live with 3D scrollbars somehow :)

There are lots of tasks that need to be done in Wine, I'd suggest taking a
look at some and finding one that matches your level of skill. winecfg
always needs hackers ;)

thanks -mike