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Sound volume slider would be mega cool

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dink:
blitter and ui code, the 2 things that really haunt my reality..

good luck :)

eye2eye:
i'm getting nuts,

(sorry have to take bigger font size, my eyes are already so square
by staring at the code for hours and hours otherwise can't read/write)

although i'm a few steps further, always something is not working...
oh lord - i'm so bad at coding, i admire you devs so much...



first i lost several days by trying to subclass or modifying the command menu
(i.e. reducing width, making transparent or integrating the sound tool in the bar)
in order to get rid of the z-order-problem, which all didn't work.

now with my new approach using seperate child-window-objects for the sound symbol and
the vertical slider on first sight it looks good but there are so many possible actions
on the parent window that either i see the kids but they do not reposition
correctly while sizing or moving the parent or they are moving correctly but they are
behind the parent or flickering like crazy...
when i use SetWindowPos(g_hVolWnd, HWND_TOP... to stabilize this, the parent
loses focus and gets inactive...setting back the focus to the parent the sound stuff disappears
and is again behind the parent and so on and so on...

at the moment i think with my limited knowledge of ui coding in combination with the
old common controls sh** in winapi it is not possible to carry out the job.

which brings me to my findings:
- a status bar or any other additional tools in the y-axis should be avoided since a pixel-line
in the vertical is far too valuable to be wasted by such..any futher options should be implemented
on the right side as an additional window or as a new child-window in the main center.
- any modern looking ui should be carried out by modern ui-additions like qt, wxwidgets, gltk+,
fltk, ultimate and such - 2 main criteria might be crossplatform and/or open source.

i will see, what i'm doing with the rest of my holidays, can't spend all day long with coding...

last famous words: jordan mechner (ya all know, the one from pop) in his bio:
"programming is a young kids business..."

dink:
It looks nice, but don't wear yourself out - if things get too complicated remember - the one we have in the menu works just nicely!

best regards,
- dink

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