Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!sunee!gpsteffl
From: gpsteffl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Glenn Steffler)
Subject: Re: Custom "cursors"
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.050712.11082@sunee.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Gold Disk Inc.
References: <1991Apr2.102934.3290@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1991 05:07:12 GMT
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In article <1991Apr2.102934.3290@waikato.ac.nz> iam@waikato.ac.nz (Ian McDonald) writes:
>I am writing an audio editor for Microsoft Windows.  For each audio window
>there are two "cursors".  I want to be able to click on each cursor and then
>drag it around (in similar style to a scroll bar dragging).

A good solution (i.e. one that I will recommend but not sanction as a 
relief from world hunger) would be to integrate the cursors as a part
of a window definition used to display an audio resource.  The window
function would handle the mouse down (capture mouse and do the appropriate
work on mouse moves) and wait for mouse up.  Keep the current cursor
position in some window extra bytes, and integrate the cursors in the
paint message.

I don't recommend the separate windows (all of one bit wide) as they may not
appear in front of the data if the data is the same colour (I suppose
you can control that) and the windows must be moved every time the 
audio window is moved.  Talk about having your cake eating it and 
then having your cake and eating it...I'm not sure what I mean here.  Anyway,
just say *NO* to extra windows!! :-)

>Ian McDonald  |                                           
(I had to follow up here as you said you could not reply to my mail, and
 I would thus not be sure you got it, get it?)

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