VB Direct Draw question/problem

Hi!

Have a few problems here maybe someone can figure out. I am learning Direct Draw. I have a basic application going that changes the mode to 800x600x16bit, that works fine, I can load bitmaps into surfaces fine, but what I need/want to do is load in a bitmap and cut it up on the fly.

Currently I have all my buttons in one bitmap file (each one is 30x20 seperated by 1px). I want to pull out the button at 0,0 and put it into a surface DDButton1, then the one at 31,0 and put it into DDButton2. I have tried Set DDButton1.GetSurfaceFromDC(thehdc) and get an error Automation Error -200532417 (887600ff).

How can I do this correctly?

I know I am getting a good hdc with the bitmap because if I bitblt it to the forms hdc it shows up.

My other problem is setting up hotspots on the screen so if the if the mouse goes over somthing it catches it.

Currently I have in the Form_MouseMove this code

If X > 100 and X < 200 and Y > 100 and Y < 200 then
'do the code here
ElseIf.......etc

My concern is there are so many mouse move events triggered that every time you go through this sub it will slow the program down. (I have a good amount of hotspots)

Is there a better way to do this?

Any help is appreciated

If you set up your hotspots as an array of RECT structures, you can loop through that each time, and use the PtInRect API call to check each one.

Z.

Or you can search around for my function that tells you if the mouse is in an hWnd.

Code:

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Option Explicit

Public Declare Function GetCursorPos Lib "user32" (lpPoint As PointAPI) As Long
Type PointAPI
    X As Long
    Y As Long
End Type

Public Declare Function GetWindowRect Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, lpRect As RECT) As Long
Public Type RECT
        Left As Long
        Top As Long
        Right As Long
        Bottom As Long
End Type

Function IsOver(hWnd As Long) As Boolean
Dim A As RECT
Dim G As PointAPI

    GetWindowRect hWnd, A
    GetCursorPos G
   
    'MsgBox G.X & " " & G.Y & " " & A.Left & " " & A.Top & " " & A.Bottom & " " & A.Right
   
    If G.X > A.Left - 1 And G.X < A.Right + 1 And G.Y > A.Top - 1 And G.Y < A.Bottom + 1 Then
        IsOver = True
    End If

End Function

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The famous (or not so famous) IsOver function!

:D

PS> Use imageboxes for the hWnds, they start out w/no background

;)

Just a tip!