Completed about box with cool fading logo and a text scroller with the credits :-) Have fun!

src/cube/dialog/HelpAboutView.cpp

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 #include "pch.hpp"
+#include <core/Common.h>
 #include <cube/dialog/HelpAboutView.hpp>
 #include <core/LibraryFactory.h>
 #include <win32cpp/Label.hpp>
@@ -45,6 +46,10 @@
 #include <win32cpp/BarLayout.hpp>
 #include <win32cpp/EditView.hpp>
 
+// GDI+ for loading the image
+#include <atlbase.h>
+#include <gdiplus.h>
+
 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 using namespace musik::cube::dialog;
@@ -61,6 +66,9 @@ const int anim_h = 300;
         ( ( (B) >> 3 )      ) \
     ))
 
+#define extract_r(C) ( (   (C) >> 11  & 0x1F ) << 3 )
+#define extract_g(C) ( ( ( (C) >> 5 ) & 0x3F ) << 2 )
+#define extract_b(C) ( (   (C)        & 0x1F ) << 3 )
 
 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
@@ -99,6 +107,85 @@ void HelpAboutView::DrawingThread(HWND hwnd, BITMAPINFO* bmi)
     // Start time of animation
     unsigned long time_start = ::GetTickCount();
 
+    // Init GDI*
+    Gdiplus::GdiplusStartupInput gp_si;
+    ULONG_PTR gp_tok;
+    Gdiplus::GdiplusStartup(&gp_tok, &gp_si, NULL);
+    
+    // Load logo
+    Gdiplus::Bitmap* gp_logo = Gdiplus::Bitmap::FromFile(
+        (musik::core::GetApplicationDirectory() + _T("resources\\logo.png")).c_str()
+    );
+
+    // Convert logo to correct format
+    unsigned int 
+        logo_width = gp_logo->GetWidth(),
+        logo_height = gp_logo->GetHeight();
+    unsigned int
+        *logo = new unsigned int[logo_width * logo_height], 
+        *plogo = logo;        
+    BYTE
+        *logo_alpha = new BYTE[logo_width * logo_height],
+        *plogo_alpha = logo_alpha;
+
+    for(int y=0; y<logo_height; y++) {
+        for(int x=0; x<logo_width; x++) {
+            Gdiplus::Color col;
+            gp_logo->GetPixel(x, y, &col);
+
+            *plogo = anim_color(col.GetRed(), col.GetGreen(), col.GetBlue());
+            ++plogo;
+
+            *plogo_alpha = col.GetAlpha();
+            ++plogo_alpha;
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Create font for text scroller
+    HFONT font = ::CreateFont(
+        14, 
+        0, 
+        0, 
+        0,
+        FW_NORMAL, 
+        0, 
+        0, 
+        0, 
+        ANSI_CHARSET, 
+        OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS, 
+        CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS, 
+        ANTIALIASED_QUALITY | CLEARTYPE_QUALITY, 
+        DEFAULT_PITCH, 
+        _T("Courier New")
+    );
+    
+    // Define Texts here, there are played in this order
+    uistring texts[] = {
+        _T("--+ musikCube 2 | milestone 2 +--"),
+        _T("created by"),
+        _T("avatar"),
+        _T("doep"),
+        _T("bjorn"),
+        _T("jooles"),
+        _T("naaina"),
+        _T("mC2 are copyright (c) mC2 Team 2007-2008"),
+        _T("win32cpp are copyright (c) Casey Langen 2007-2008"),
+        _T("mC2 wouldn't be possible without these projects:"),
+        _T("tuniac (http://tuniac.sf.net)"),
+        _T("boost (http://www.boost.org)"),
+        _T("sqlite3 (http://www.sqlite.org)"),
+        _T("taglib (http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib)")
+    };
+    
+    RECT cr;
+    ::GetClientRect(hwnd, &cr);
+
+    RECT textrect;
+    textrect.left = 0;
+    textrect.top = 200;
+    textrect.right = cr.right;
+    textrect.bottom = 220;
+
     // Start drawing loop
     while(anim_running) {
         // Calc current time
@@ -149,16 +236,88 @@ void HelpAboutView::DrawingThread(HWND hwnd, BITMAPINFO* bmi)
                     wy[i] += sy[i];
                 }
             }
+
+            // Display logo
+            float alpha = 0.7 + 0.3 * sin(0.3 * time * 3.1415);
+            int lx = 127, ly = 40;
+            for(int y=0; y<logo_height; y++) {
+                // blackit is true in order to create the black noisy stripes
+                bool blackit = false;
+                if(
+                    (
+                        (alpha >= 0.4 && alpha <= 0.42) || 
+                        (alpha >= 0.71 && alpha <= 0.714)
+                    ) && !(y % (1 + (rand() % logo_height)))) {
+                    blackit = true;
+                }
+
+                for(int x=0; x<logo_width; x++) {
+                    unsigned short* cp = &screen[(lx + x) + ((ly + y) * anim_w)];
+
+                    unsigned short 
+                        c = logo[x + y * logo_width],
+                        s = *cp;
+
+                    BYTE a = logo_alpha[x + y * logo_width];
+                    
+                    if(blackit) c = 0, a = 0;
+
+                    double ac = alpha * ((double)a / 255.0f);
+
+                    unsigned int 
+                        r = (extract_r(c) * ac) + (extract_r(s) * (1.0 - ac)),
+                        g = (extract_g(c) * ac) + (extract_g(s) * (1.0 - ac)),
+                        b = (extract_b(c) * ac) + (extract_b(s) * (1.0 - ac));
+
+                    *cp = anim_color(r, g, b);
+                }
+            }
         }
 
         // Blit surface
         HDC hdc = ::GetDC(hwnd);
         ::SetDIBitsToDevice(hdc, 0, 0, anim_w, anim_h, 0, 0, 0, anim_h, (void*)screen, bmi, DIB_RGB_COLORS);
 
-        // Some idle time to give other threads the chance to process
-        ::Sleep(1);
+        // Draw text
+        {
+            static unsigned int textidx = 0;
+
+            ::SetBkMode(hdc, TRANSPARENT);
+            ::SetTextColor(hdc, 0xDDDDAA);
+            ::SelectObject(hdc, font);
+
+            static float tdlast = 0.0f;
+
+            float td = time - tdlast;
+            if(td > 2.5f) { 
+
+                if(textidx+1 == sizeof(texts) / sizeof(uistring)) {
+                    textidx = 0;
+                } else {
+                    textidx++;
                 }
 
+                tdlast = time;
+            }
+
+            ::DrawText(
+                hdc, 
+                texts[textidx].c_str(), 
+                texts[textidx].size() + 1, 
+                &textrect,
+                DT_CENTER
+            );
+        }
+
+        // Some idle time to give other threads the chance to process
+        Sleep(1);
+    }
+
+    // Shutdown GDI+
+    delete gp_logo; delete logo;
+    Gdiplus::GdiplusShutdown(gp_tok);
+
+    // Delete resources
     delete[] screen; screen = NULL;
 }
 

src/cube/main.cpp

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ int WINAPI wWinMain(HINSTANCE instance, HINSTANCE prevInstance, LPTSTR commandLi
     // Initialize locale
     try {
 		uistring appDirectory( musik::core::GetApplicationDirectory() );
-        Locale::Instance()->SetLocaleDirectory(appDirectory);
+        Locale::Instance()->SetLocaleDirectory(appDirectory + _T("\\locales"));
 	    Locale::Instance()->LoadConfig(_T("english"));
     }
     catch(...) {