[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Custom-shape Buttons With Hovercolor In Openedge

[eboersma@vanmeijel.nl]

Dear Sir/Madam, In our (very large) OpenEdge application we have made toolbar's with 'custom-buttons', see image We created such a button, not with the'Button' widget, but with the 'Rectangle' Widget and an image widget and sometimes a 'fill-in' widget. The buttons have a 'hover-color' and behave like a non-focus-button. But for that hover-color and non-focus behaviour, we needed the msgblst32.ocx, for catching the 'WM_MOUSEMOVE', (for the hovercolor), WM_LBUTTONDOWN and WM_RBUTTONDOWN (to get non-focus behaviour). We would like to not use the msgblst32.ocx, because we do not know how stable this activeX will be in the future. So we need the following: could you make an event 'MOUSE-MOVE' and an event 'WM_MOUSELEAVE' for a Rectangle-widget? And can you give a rectangle widget an attribute 'non-focus', like the button-widget? We would like this very much. Another reason for wanting this is, that then we can create also stand-alone buttons with the desired behaviour and appearence (that is yet practically not possible, because then for each button we would need a msgblst32.ocx instance; we have yet one msgblst32.ocx instance per toolbar). We are looking forward for your answer. Kind regards, Edzerd Boersma.

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