Irrlicht Window

[Garu]

Hi all,
Anybody have tried to remove the main irrlicht window? I think it's created during function createDevice() is called. I want to remove the main window as i have the rendered screen displayed on MFC. Anybody have an idea which part of code i need to remove from the source?

thanks in advance

[Guest]

Not really tried yet,
but would be very interesting having
Irrlicht output as ActiveX component in a VB app. Do you think it's possible?

anyway...

the window is created in CIrrDeviceWin32.cpp

Line 323
HWnd = CreateWindow( ClassName, "", style, windowLeft, windowTop,
realWidth, realHeight, NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL);

Hope this could help U.

[Ryoga2k]

Hi, guys

maybe it would work getting the window handle of the Irrlicht window. So you could manage it as a normal Windows window.

Is there any way to get this HWnd?

[Acki]

Is there any way to get this HWnd?

Well, for windows there is a great thing called API !!!
With it you're be able to manipulate the whole system at low level...

To get the handle of a window use this function:

Code: Select all

#include <windows.h>

HWND__* hWnd = FindWindow("CIrrDeviceWin32", NULL);

I'm using DevCpp so maybe you have to change the var type (HWND__*) for other sdks, but I don't know that...

CU, Acki

[NovaCoder]

You can update it so you can pass in an HWND of your own window, then the engine will not create it's own but will store a reference to yours instead. I can post the code up if you want it.

[Guest]

HI,

yes this should work so far. But cannot try atm.
As I see it, on creates a window and get the handle 4it.

from VB side this could work:

Private Declare Function SendMessageA Lib "user32" ( _
ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal uMsg As Long, _
ByVal wParam As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long

Dim hWnd As Long

hWnd = FindWindow("CIrrDeviceWin32", 0)

SendMessageA .hWnd, MSG, 0, -1



see ref.:

http://www.geocities.com/practicalvb/vb ... sages.html

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... bContent=1

[Ryoga2k]

Originally posted by Acki
#include <windows.h>
HWND__* hWnd = FindWindow("CIrrDeviceWin32", NULL);

Thanks a lot Acki!

Originally posted by NovaCoder
I can post the code up if you want it.

Yes NovaCoder, I´ll be very grateful if you post the code for passing the handle of my own window.

[puh]

NovaCoder, would be great to see your code snippet for passing our own window in an Irrlicht HWND.

[NovaCoder]

^^ It's on my site now...