DX widget about screen?

Saturday, July 16, 2005 by Richard Mohler | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

I've noticed on some DX widgets when you click on (about) a whole different screen appears, instead of the regular one. How is this done and can anybody do it?
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werewolf
Reply #1 Saturday, July 16, 2005 8:51 PM
there is a way to generate these custom screens, but I have no idea how to do it. It's very possible it's in the DX documentation, I haven't looked. Oh, and I think anybody can do it with the full DX version.

Richard Mohler
Reply #2 Saturday, July 16, 2005 8:58 PM
Thanks, I'll look at the documentation..

John Hamp
Reply #3 Sunday, July 17, 2005 1:01 AM
Have you tried just importing in that widget that has the fancy screen and seeing how it does it?

Richard Mohler
Reply #4 Sunday, July 17, 2005 1:06 AM
Yeah, it won't run like other widgets so I can't see how it's made..

thomassen
Reply #5 Sunday, July 17, 2005 6:25 AM
What widgets are they?

One way of doing it is using "desktopx.RegisterController" to capture and catch the object rightclicks and provide a identical menu.

Richard Mohler
Reply #6 Sunday, July 17, 2005 12:04 PM
Sorry don't know how to do that, but thanks.. I think their a couple of widgets belonging to Tiggz..But he can tap into things that others don't know how..

thomassen
Reply #7 Monday, July 18, 2005 12:30 PM
I made a small little script. I uploaded it to my website because code doesn't format very well in these forums.

http://www.thomthom.net/storage/gui/desktopx/custom_widget_menu.html

Richard Mohler
Reply #8 Monday, July 18, 2005 1:22 PM
Thanks I'll check it out..

Richard Mohler
Reply #9 Monday, July 18, 2005 2:00 PM
--thomassen--
Sorry not to up on how to go about using scripts other than making slight modifications to them, so needless to say I don't know how to go about using this one..

thomassen
Reply #10 Friday, July 22, 2005 2:11 PM
Unless you have another object that acts as a Script Controller (Antoher object that uses DesktopX.RegisterController Object.Name) then you should only need to add the code to one of the objects in your widget creation. Then you add some code where you see "'*** ADD YOUR ABOUT CODE HERE ***'" to show whatever you want to display as an aboutbox.

...not sure if that helped or not... I'm not great at words... better at pictures...

Richard Mohler
Reply #11 Friday, July 22, 2005 3:04 PM
I'll see what I can do

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