Round Corners/Holey Windows batman!

This program demonstrates using a bitmap as your dialog.
Whatever part of your dialog you color with the color you define will be transparent (creating the rounded corners and holes in the window). And also it simplifies the changing of colors/bitmaps on buttons when you put the mouse over it and when it has focus, etc with the BtnSt class. Just run the program if that doesn't make any sense.
No credit belongs to me. The BtnSt class and the function that actually does all the bitmap/region work (DIBToRgn()) is stuff I found on CodeGuru.
I figure it could help somebody. It helped me.

War,
*LuckY*

First of all, the program requires the mfc42d.dll to run! Second, that is a useless MFC wizard written program that does not in any way give details on how that might be done with win32.

Are you new to programming and/or windows? Do yourself a favor. Delete that garbage and forget about MFC. Didn't you notice that you cannot edit lot's of that code? If VC++ was a REAL "visual" compiler, it would not hide such things from you!!

The MFC wizard created the dialog and all, no ........... I am not demonstrating how to write a win32 program. I never stated that I was. I said I was demonstrating how to set the region of your window to that of a bitmap.

If you simply add a member:

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HRGN m_hWndRgn;

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and call in your constructor or OnInitDialog() func:

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m_hWndRgn=DIBToRgn(m_hBmp,0xff00ff,FALSE);

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then call in OnInitDialog():

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SetWindowRgn(m_hWndRgn,TRUE);

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You will have quite simply set the region for your window to the specified bitmap. All you need to do is copy the DibToRgn() function into your dialog's class. Perhaps I should have elaborated a bit more, but I didn't know there were such stupid ..........s on this board. I guess I should have just posted the one function and told you to go figure out for yourself what to do with it, huh?
I very obviously placed

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wherever I added code to the program. All that a genius such as yourself need worry about is copying the parts that fit your needs and compile.

And what's your problem? I simply asked if you were new to Windows, and if so, to ditch MFC.
MFC is bad. So what's the point of using it, or even mucking up this board with it, jughead?

>> I figure it could help somebody. It helped me.

He doesnt seem to have a problem, i think its you that has a problem mr Sabastard.

I don't see a problem here--or anything else for that matter (putting the dll in wouldn't have killed you). MFC isn't "bad" per se. I would agree that probably 80% of the programs written using MFC don't benefit from it. However, its also not like every program on the boards is some commercial product/professional project. I say keep using MFC, but please put the DLL in your zip's for us non-VC++ folks.