How to make "Basic Container" view transparent and set icons at runtime?

[herman_du plessis]

I am using the Basic Container (CCoeControl) view (from the Carbide GUI wizard) with some icons on it. How do you make the container's background transparent so that the phone's skin is visible in the background?
As far as I can see the background is always set to a color.

[wizard_hu_]

Search for skin in the Wiki. Default CCoeControl::Draw does absolutely nothing, what you currently see is most probably the result of a CBitmapContext::Clear.

[herman_du plessis]

Thanks for the response.

In the Container class generated by the Carbide wizard the Draw method has the following code.

// [[[ begin generated region: do not modify [Generated Contents]
CWindowGc& gc = SystemGc();
gc.Clear( aRect );
// ]]] end generated region [Generated Contents]

If i remove the code, it is transparent but all the controls don't get updated correctly when e.g. text change.

[wizard_hu_]

Try the other part, and search for skin in the Wiki.

[herman_du plessis]

I looked at the Wiki. I investigated the posting
"Drawing skins in container". It worked 100% but with some issues.

* First, the code does not compile as is. You must change the include "#include <AknsUtils.h>" to "#include <AknUtils.h>".
* The code crash when "SetRect(CEikonEnv::Static()->EikAppUi()->ClientRect());" is executed. I just replaced it with "SetRect( aRect );".

Thanks