Fusion Control Centre Uber Edition -- Need Testers

**h3rk** · 12-30-2007, 03:12 PM

I would have NEVER guessed that.
These weren't supposed to be buttons anyway, but the thought interested me.

**2k1Toaster** · 12-30-2007, 03:25 PM

Oh and just a bit OT, but instead of taking a picture of your screen why not just press the Print Screen button? Then paste it into MS Paint or Photoshop or whatever?

**h3rk** · 12-30-2007, 03:33 PM

you, know I just tried that before I snapped the photo, and I'm ashamed to say that I didn't know it goes to the clipboard for me to paste somewhere. I kept waiting for paint or something to pop-up. I've been curious about that for years, not curious enough I suppose. Thanks yet again.

**2k1Toaster** · 12-30-2007, 03:37 PM

Yup, "printing" is a very old term for cloning to a buffer. This case it is the windows clipboard. Your printer clones it to paper.

**h3rk** · 01-01-2008, 06:02 AM

Will it be capable of utilizing whatever fonts are installed on the computer? Like for my funky HemiHead426 font that I have to take around with me from computer to computer.

**2k1Toaster** · 01-01-2008, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by h3rk

Will it be capable of utilizing whatever fonts are installed on the computer? Like for my funky HemiHead426 font that I have to take around with me from computer to computer.

I have no idea... I havent even found a way to do it yet. I am thinking the only way is to externally convert each font into a bitmap and then it would just call rectangular boxes around it for various letters and draw it as an image...

It is very weird to me that there is no font support in DX10.

**h3rk** · 01-01-2008, 08:58 PM

That seems like a pretty big concern, as some of the graphics-specific software I use doesn't create the greatest graphical renditions of text.
Just an oddball suggestion from someone who doesn't really know but: what about layering by using DX to create the graphics, run it as a background and then use GDI+ in the forground, and somehow maintain the clickability from the DX part. I know I'm probably asking if you can multiply: swiss cheese by (purple divided by Jupiter). But maybe worth asking.

**2k1Toaster** · 01-01-2008, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by h3rk

That seems like a pretty big concern, as some of the graphics-specific software I use doesn't create the greatest graphical renditions of text.
Just an oddball suggestion from someone who doesn't really know but: what about layering by using DX to create the graphics, run it as a background and then use GDI+ in the forground, and somehow maintain the clickability from the DX part. I know I'm probably asking if you can multiply: swiss cheese by (purple divided by Jupiter). But maybe worth asking.

That is pretty much the math equation that applies here!

The problem goes back to the original transparency problem. GDI+ does not support transparency, and all this DX10 stuff is essentially a "layer" ontop of a background of the form. It isn't the background itself. I am not sure there is a way to force it to be the background as seen by GDI. So anything with GDI will have a solid colour background...

So it is one or the other, not both...

And what I could do (actually what I think StreetDeck does actually now that I think about it...) is make the png's for some fonts and you can make them any size/resolution wanted, so a font will need a definition of the letters included in the file as well as how big each character is...

**h3rk** · 01-01-2008, 10:49 PM

font color?

**2k1Toaster** · 01-04-2008, 01:53 AM

Ok, no font support yet, but I did add static images (a.k.a. dead images) as well as a z-ordering so now anything can be layered however you want. I havent tested it fully, but what I have seen it works well.

the back of the screen is 0.0 and the front of the screen is 1.0

So all background images are 0.0 and if things with the same order are put on, then it is in order of how they are defined in the sprite batch manager which is as before with the lists iterating through.

And those numbers are floats so, you can go crazy if you want. Z layer 0.454353 can hold a few images if you want

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