Irrlicht Engine

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

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.

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?

Ryoga2k wrote: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: 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

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.

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

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.

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

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