
OffScreen image/screen pages/full screen management/multimedia
Quote:
> I'm looking for a little advice in the following:
> 3) I want to maintain a window that has a viewing area of 640 x 480, and
> fill the rest of the screen with black. I've considered 1) running a form
> in a form, the "main" form supplying the maximized capability and the black
> background, the "client" form (I attach it as a child to the main form) is
> where all the action is; and 2) using a picture box as where everything
> happens (ie in place of the "client" form above). If anyone has had any
> experience with presenting multimedia in VB I'd like to here their
> approach. (I can't imagine using a lot of different forms as a solution.)
> Ian
Hi Ian!
to point 3)
to make a main window & put a child in it might use much memory (I don't know
the capability you want to make the prog for).
take a form, size it to the screen (set not title, no min-max-buttons, no
system-menu box and borderstyle = 0) and place a picturebox in it with your
640&480 size. Because VB uses a Thunder Box internally, you can use it as a
single window, you can place controls in it & so on.
Another trick is, that you can use pictureboxes of other forms & set via APi
the Child of the WindowLong / WindowsWord (Works form win 3.11 up to Win 98) &
use this picture on the form. It works cool, you can use the routines & events
from anopther form on that picture box, event when it is displayed in another
form. This is for those who are fit in WindowsAPI. If you want more information
about this, send my a note (e-mail below)
I didn't undersand you in using the term multimedia. For more information
please say clearlier what you want. Bye, dis is mot of intek vr.