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Subject: Bo, thousands thanks, I will try it in my program! :-) NT

Author: Eran

Date: 14:11:52 11/18/01

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On November 18, 2001 at 12:27:51, Bo Persson wrote:

>On November 17, 2001 at 17:31:49, Eran wrote:
>
>>
>>I program a chess window interface in MFC. After I successfully created
>>draggable chess pieces from bitmap resources, I had problems with the
>>transparency surrounding the chess pieces. When I called the function as show
>>below,
>>
>>::TransparentBlt((HDC) &dc, org.x, org.y, size.x, size.x, (HDC) &dcMem,
>>		org.x, org.x, size.x, size.y, RGB(255, 255, 255));
>>
>>the transparency looked fine if I never dragged them from their origin squares.
>>When I dragged a piece, the transparent region (a rectangle shape contains a
>>piece in center) surrounding it cut off from the area of the board and the
>>region followed the piece around like a shadow. That was a problem. Since I
>>could not find a solution in MFC, I dived into a more complicated Win32
>>programming codes in the WinBoard 4.2.3 source files.  I could not find it there
>>either. I tried with icons instead of bitmap resources but failed to show up on
>>client area of the View class. MFC is pretty inflexible.
>>
>>If you know how to do it or if you have correct MFC codes (I prefer clear codes
>>with good explanations), please let me know.
>>
>>I would appreciate your help a great deal.
>>
>>My developing program is MS Visual C++ 6.0 Professional with latest update.
>
>If you are using an MCF View to display your board, there is also a CImageList
>class that implements Drag'n'Drop for images!
>
>After loading the image list with pieces and masks, all you have to do is
>
>in OnLButtonDown()
>   ImageList.BeginDrag(Index);
>   ImageList.DragEnter(this,coordinate);
>
>in OnMouseMove()
>   ImageList.DragMove(new_coordinate)
>
>in OnLButtonUp()
>   ImageList.EndDrag();
>   ImageList.DragLeave(this);
>
>
>Just remember the square from OnLButtonUp() and you are there!
>
>
>Bo Persson
>bop2@telia.com
>
>
>
>>Thank you,
>>Eran
>>My new email address: eran_k1@bezeqint.net
>>Please do not email any message to my old email address (mrerk@barak-online.net)



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