Updated 22 Oct 2005

Brother t0mas -- Thanks so much for adding the button bevel size change to ButtonFactory. What was once good is even better!

In the interest of sharing, just for fun, I am posting some code I quickly hacked up last night to do something a little different with ButtonFactory from the command line. Based on what you include as a sample command-line script in the POD, here is what I am doing: 

#!perl -w
## ------------------------------------------------------------
#   MS Windoze-specific script. Sorry :-).
## ------------------------------------------------------------
# NOT like t0mas' original idea -- this makes buttons for
# horizontal row use only bec if button text is longer
# than 20 chars, it expands the length by 8 px for each one
# (based on 8pt Myriad font).

use ButtonFactory;
use Win32::Clipboard;
my ( $N_state $P_state @RGBt $BWi );

my $clipping;
my $name_it = shift @ARGV;
my $btnText = shift @ARGV;
my $expsn = ((length ($btnText) - 20) > 0)? 
     (length ($btnText) - 20) * 8 : 0 ;

$BWi = 90 + $expsn;

@RGBt = ($clipping=Win32::Clipboard::Get())
    # Pick-'o-Color format for rgb triplet: "RGB(155, 50, 23)"
      ? grep /\d+/, (split /[^\d]/,$clipping)
      : split(/[^\w]/, shift @ARGV);

if (scalar @RGBt == 3)
{
   print "Using ", join( ', ',@RGBt ), " for color specification for b
+uttons\n";
}
 else
{
   die "No color as RGB triplet gotten! \nContents of \@RGBt if any: "
      ." $clipping ". "@RGBt";
}

my $x=new ButtonFactory($BWi,21,
                   $RGBt[0],$RGBt[1],$RGBt[2],
                   $btnText =>"Myriad Web Bold.ttf"=>8);

$N_state = $name_it .'N_state.png';
$P_state = $name_it .'P_state.png';

open (FILE,">$N_state") or die $!;
binmode FILE;
my $Ntime = time;
print FILE $x->printNormal();
close (FILE);
open (FILE,">$P_state") or die $!;
binmode FILE;
print FILE $x->printPressed();
close (FILE);

utime $Ntime, $Ntime, ($N_state, $P_state);

_END_

[download]
Pick'o'Color is  (was) a  Windows app found at:
http://www.itsme.de/software/index.html


 Best,
   soren      Intrepid

In reply to RE: ButtonFactory by Intrepid
in thread ButtonFactory by t0mas

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