[Solved] Left aligned Icon on a Button with text

[FaridAgl]

I want to left align the Icon on the Button in the bellow example.

Here is my code: (!)

GUICreate('', 250, 100)
GUICtrlCreateButton('Add', 10, 10, 100, 25)
GUICtrlSetImage(-1, 'Add.ico')
GUISetState()

Do
Until GUIGetMsg() = -3

Thanks in advance.

Edited September 13, 2012 by D4RKON3

[BrewManNH]

Is there a question?

[FaridAgl]

Well, acctually my miss! The question is in the title, added to post right now btw.

[JLogan3o13]

Something like this?

GUICreate('', 250, 100)
GUICtrlCreateButton('Add', 10, 10, 100, 25)
GUICtrlCreateIcon(@DesktopDir & "add.ico", "Add", 18, 16, 12, 12)
;GUICtrlSetImage(-1, 'Add.ico')
GUISetState()

Do
Until GUIGetMsg() = -3

[FaridAgl]

Thank you, that's a work around. Just 2 things, the icon will be dissapear when move the mouse cursor over the button and, a transparent background for the icon will be fine.

Another way is adding some spaces to the button's label in the first post's example, not so expert but works fine.

Any other idea out there?

[BrewManNH]

Try this, you may need to play around with it some, the color of the background of the icon turned black for some reason when I used it.

#include <GuiButton.au3>
#include <guiimagelist.au3>
$hImage = _GUIImageList_Create()
_GUIImageList_AddIcon($hImage, "add.ico")
GUICreate('', 250, 100)
GUICtrlCreateButton('Add', 10, 10, 100, 25)
_GUICtrlButton_SetImageList(-1, $hImage , 0)
;~ GUICtrlSetImage(-1, 'Add.ico')
GUISetState()
Do
Until GUIGetMsg() = -3

[FaridAgl]

After spending some time on it, didn't found any solution for the black background.

[BrewManNH]

I don't think the code likes transparency.

[FaridAgl]

Agree.

Well, I'm feeling I have to search for another way!

[guinness]

Convert it to png and then continue from there.

[BrewManNH]

Better yet, try this code, see the line where the image list is created.

#include <GuiButton.au3>
#include <guiimagelist.au3>
$hImage = _GUIImageList_Create(16, 16, 5)
_GUIImageList_AddIcon($hImage, "add.ico")
GUICreate('', 250, 100)
GUICtrlCreateButton('Add', 10, 10, 100, 25)
_GUICtrlButton_SetImageList(-1, $hImage , 0)
;~ GUICtrlSetImage(-1, 'Add.ico')
GUISetState()
Do
Until GUIGetMsg() = -3

[JScript]

And why not use in this way?

#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>

GUICreate('', 250, 100)

GUICtrlCreateButton('     Add', 10, 10, 100, 25, $BS_LEFT)
GUICtrlSetImage(-1, 'Add.ico')

GUISetState()

Do
Until GUIGetMsg() = -3

JS

[BrewManNH]

Because it moves the text on the button too far over, the method I showed keeps the text relatively centered while aligning the icon to the left.

[FaridAgl]

Well, it's good but not best. I have thought about this some how:

www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/144152-left-aligned-icon-on-a-button-with-text/#entry1016000

Take a look at this image:

Nice huh?! I checked the button's label, he doesn't used spaces. I can ask ISI360 about this, but he is not the guy who will anwser such questions. Also I can take a look at his project's source, but I'm so lazy for this!

(*** Screen shot from ISN AutoIt Studio)

[guinness]

but I'm so lazy for this!

So you want other people to do all the hard work for you?

Edit: I could probably look at the source code for you, but I'm too lazy to do so!

Edited September 13, 2012 by guinness

[FaridAgl]

I was hoping maybe someone has a snippet code for this, didn't know it can be this hard.

Acctually I'm lazy about downloading the source, ISI's server is really slow.

[JScript]

from ISN AutoIt Studio source:

Func Button_AddIcon($nID, $sIconFile, $nIconID, $nAlign)
    $sIconFile = $smallIconsdll
    Local $hIL = ImageList_Create(16, 16, BitOr($ILC_MASK, $ILC_COLOR32), 0, 1)
    Local $stIcon = DllStructCreate("int")
    ExtractIconEx($sIconFile, $nIconID, DllStructGetPtr($stIcon), 0, 1)
    ImageList_AddIcon($hIL, DllStructGetData($stIcon, 1))
    DestroyIcon(DllStructGetData($stIcon, 1))
    Local $stBIL = DllStructCreate("dword;int[4];uint")
    DllStructSetData($stBIL, 1, $hIL)
    DllStructSetData($stBIL, 2, 1, 1)
    DllStructSetData($stBIL, 2, 1, 2)
    DllStructSetData($stBIL, 2, 1, 3)
    DllStructSetData($stBIL, 2, 1, 4)
    DllStructSetData($stBIL, 3, $nAlign)
    GUICtrlSendMsg($nID, $BCM_SETIMAGELIST, 0, DllStructGetPtr($stBIL))
EndFunc

JS

[BrewManNH]

He's using the exact same code I posted here, I just downloaded his script to see if he'd done it another way and saw that he didn't, although he used the 4th parameter for $iOptions, it doesn't make any difference to the icon displayed that I can see.

[FaridAgl]

@JScript, Thanks.I don't access to the source, can you give me these too?

$smallIconsdll ???

ImageList_Create ???

ExtractIconEx ???

ImageList_AddIcon ???

DestroyIcon ???

[FaridAgl]

He's using the exact same code I posted here, I just downloaded his script to see if he'd done it another way and saw that he didn't, although he used the 4th parameter for $iOptions, it doesn't make any difference to the icon displayed that I can see.

Maybe some voodoo magic.