Attaching LE to a HWND?

[Sanctus]

Hey guys.

I decided to start a project using LE 2.22 untill Josh get's back and I can buy LE 2.3

 

Anyway thing is I need to use Leadwerks in a windows forms application.

I think I'll write my own C# headers for this but first I'd like to know (in c++) how can I start the engine using a HWND or in a way that I can use it over a custrom controll.

In my own engine(not public) I have CreateEngine(HWND hwnd,int renderer) and CreateEngineWindow(int width,int height,int depth,int renderer). (note that I don't want to brag about it)

Can I do something similar here?

[wh1sp3r]

yes, you can. Just get Leadwerks window handle and parent it with your form

[Sanctus]

Thanks man.

Do you mind if I ask for some actual code? I can't really find the commands on wiki.

[wh1sp3r]

these commands doesn't exist in Leadwerks actually you have to use a Win32

 

Graphics(WIDTH, HEIGHT);

Leadwerks_HWND = GetActiveWindow(); // there should be FindWindow or something, GetActiveWindow in not good, lol

SetWindowLongA(Leadwerks_HWND,GWL_STYLE,WS_VISIBLE|WS_CHILDWINDOW);

SetWindowPos(Leadwerks_HWND,0,0,0,WIDTH,HEIGHT,0);

SetParent(Leadwerks_HWND, (HWND) ANOTHER_HWND);

[Masterxilo]

FindWindow is not optimal either in the rare cases where there might exist another window with the same title.

[Sanctus]

Yeah but doesn't leadwerks support this natively?

I mean I basically want to do what's in the sandbox.

I don't want to add a parent to the actual window. I want to put it in another window as a control. I'm sorry if this is stupid but my win32 programming skills are close to none( I can make a window with a button and that's all).

[Pixel Perfect]

From my understanding so long as you can create an OpenGL viewport in your application then Leadwerks will render to this using a custom buffer. TylerH has done this before in C# and posted code in the past so you might want to do some searching of probably the old forum

 

I'm using the same technique of parenting the Leadwerks window that wh1sp3r suggested but it's not ideal.