Turning off gadget borders

Hi. Is it possible to turn off the borders surrounding textfield and combobox gadgets etc in MaxGUI, and if so how does one do it? I do not see a flag for it anywhere, but surely it is possible to do? The end result would be all the usual gadgets for text input/selection etc, but with the borders stripped off to remove that sunken-in look. Any ideas?

This is pretty easy on Windows, dunno about the other platforms though.

GadgetBorder.bmx

SuperStrict

Import PUB.Win32
Import MaxGUI.Drivers
'Import BRL.MaxGUI


Private
?Win32
Const RDW_ERASE:Int = 4
Const RDW_FRAME:Int = 1024
Const RDW_INTERNALPAINT:Int = 2
Const RDW_INVALIDATE:Int = 1
Const RDW_NOERASE:Int = 32
Const RDW_NOFRAME:Int = 2048
Const RDW_NOINTERNALPAINT:Int = 16
Const RDW_VALIDATE:Int = 8
Const RDW_ERASENOW:Int = 512
Const RDW_UPDATENOW:Int = 256
Const RDW_ALLCHILDREN:Int = 128
Const RDW_NOCHILDREN:Int = 64

Extern "Win32"
	Function RedrawWindow:Int( hwnd:Int, rect:Byte Ptr, region:Int, flags:Int)
EndExtern
?
Public


Const BORDER_NONE:Int = 0
Const BORDER_3D:Int = 1
Const BORDER_THIN:Int = 2

Function SetGadgetBorder( gadget:TGadget, bordertype:Int)
	?MacOS
	DebugLog "SetGadgetBorder() doesnt support MacOS"
	?Linux
	DebugLog "SetGadgetBorder() doesnt support Linux"
	?
	?Win32
	Local hwnd:Int = gadget.Query( QUERY_HWND)
	Local style:Int = GetWindowLongW( hwnd, GWL_STYLE)
	Local exstyle:Int = GetWindowLongW( hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE)	
	Select bordertype
		Case BORDER_NONE
			' remove both border types
			If style & WS_BORDER Then SetWindowLongW( hwnd, GWL_STYLE, style & ~WS_BORDER)
			If exstyle & WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE Then SetWindowLongW( hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, exstyle & ~WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE)
		Case BORDER_THIN
			' add thin border & remove 3d border
			If Not (style & WS_BORDER) Then SetWindowLongW( hwnd, GWL_STYLE, style | WS_BORDER)
			If exstyle & WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE Then SetWindowLongW( hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, exstyle & ~WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE)		
		Case BORDER_3D
			' remove thin border & add 3d border
			If style & WS_BORDER Then SetWindowLongW( hwnd, GWL_STYLE, style & ~WS_BORDER)
			If Not (exstyle & WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE) Then SetWindowLongW( hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, exstyle | WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE)			
	EndSelect
	' update window frame
	SetWindowPos( hwnd,0, 0,0,0,0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_NOACTIVATE | SWP_FRAMECHANGED)
	RedrawWindow( hwnd, Null,0, RDW_INVALIDATE | RDW_NOCHILDREN | RDW_UPDATENOW | RDW_FRAME)
	?
EndFunction

Thanks grable! :) May I ask where you found such information, and how to use it?

MSDN has all Win32 (and other Windows specific) API documentation.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383686.aspx is a good starting place.

Using the code i supplied, all you have to do is:

SetGadgetBorder( gadget_with_border, BORDER_NONE)