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Custom 3-D Vector Control

  This control has the following features: A 3D vector MFC control derived from CButton. Real-time light rendering on a 3D ball. Variable ball radius and position. Supports bitmap background (tiled). Supports vertical gradient color background (from color to color, as visiable in screen capture above). Variable ball color (diffuse), light color and ambient color. […]

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Aug 5, 1998
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This control has the following features:

  • A 3D vector MFC control derived from CButton.
  • Real-time light rendering on a 3D ball.
  • Variable ball radius and position.
  • Supports bitmap background (tiled).
  • Supports vertical gradient color background (from color to color, as visiable in
    screen capture above).
  • Variable ball color (diffuse), light color and ambient color.
  • Variable specular intensity.
  • Supports attached controls (for automatic update).
    That is, you can specify IDs of other controls that will reflect (textually) the value of
    a specific vector component. The vector control will automatically update (calling
    SetwindowText) the display. See the 3 static text controls in the example above.
  • Variable mouse sensitivity.
  • Supports front clipping (vector will not have negative Z values).
  • Supports callback functions for the following events:
    1. The trackball has moved (vector is changing).
    2. The user dropped the trackball (released left mouse button). i.e., the vector was
    changed.

A dialog-based sample application (screen capture above) and
the control source code can be found here

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