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Custom Window Shape
Round windows in Windows.
Issue: 2.6 (July/August 2004)
Author: Christian Schmitz
Author Bio: Christian Schmitz is the creator of the Monkeybread Software REALbasic Plugins.
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Article Length (in bytes): 12,479
Starting Page Number: 42
Article Number: 2621
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What do we want to do?
The first part of the article round window. For this we will use a special class WinRegion to define a region. A region is basically something like a picture mask, but it is built using bitmap and/or vector data. We create such a region and then assign it to a normal REALbasic window.
The second part will improve this class to give you some more commands. For example you can add one region to another to create more complex regions.
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