bitmap and activex control in maxscript

[LoneRobot]

im not sure exactly what you're trying to accomplish, but you could look into "Imgtag" check the MXS help for what it does. If im not mistaken, you will get a border on whatever activeX control you use anyway? but i might have just mis-understood you.

[namoi]

I've tried the imgtag and it works... but the quality of the dispalyed bitmap is degraded comparing with the use of the bitmap properties.

So I sum up :
1st way :

imgtag bmp1 bitmap: (bitmap 150 150)
on myrollout open do
(
bmp1.bitmap = (openBitmap "C:\Program Files\3dsmax 7\UI\MacroScripts\mybitmap.bmp")
)

---> works well (I got no border around the bitmap), but quality is ugly...

2nd way:

bitmap bmp1 bitmap: (bitmap 150 150)
on myrollout open do
(
bmp1.bitmap = (openBitmap "C:\Program Files\3dsmax 7\UI\MacroScripts\mybitmap.bmp")
)

---> quality is ok, but i got the border around the bitmap and i don't want it.

Someone can help ?

[namoi]

Ok, find my solution. The problem of "quality" using imgtag was linked to the transparent property which is set by default to 0 0 0 (perfect black) and i was using this color.

Thanks again

[LoneRobot]

glad you sorted it out. :)

[galagast]

i tried the 3 methods being mentioned on this thread...


rollout mytest "mytest"
(
local bmppath = "D:\galagast.jpg" -- rename this to your bitmap path
local mybmp = openbitmap bmppath

imgtag test_tag "map" bitmap:mybmp transparent:blue enabled:false
button press_bot "PRESS" pos:[5,10]
activexcontrol test_acx "D:\galagast.jpg" width:120 height:120 pos:[0,100]
button test_bot width:100 height:100 images:#(bmppath,undefined,1,1,1,1,1)
)
createdialog mytest 120 340


i had a couple of questions tho...
- i wonder if there's a way to disable the transparency in the ImgTag.
(good thing about this is you could place a button on top of it if its disabled.)

- is thera a way to use a variable (containing the string) for an ActiveX control?
- (an advantage to this, i guess, is that you could drag the activeX image on to your scene or material editor)
- is there a way to offset the image inside activeX? (just as pudgerboy mention, we'd get a border around activeX)
- a double right click seems to open-up my browser :)

- (no problems with button images so far)

there myt be other ways or workarounds out there...

[LoneRobot]

ugly fix but i tried just putting a groupbox over the bitmap to hide the bevel.



rollout test "test" width:100 height:188
(
bitmap thingy "" pos:[10,7] width:80 height:84 fileName:"test.jpg"
GroupBox grp1 "" pos:[10,1] width:80 height:90
)

createdialog test 100 100

ugly - yes
works - sort of :shrug:

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