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RE: Modern windows screens

• Posted by Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> Jul 20, 2003
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Al Getz wrote:

> If you can show me some pictures of what the menues and stuff
> looks like i can probably add a new class in the WinClass Library
> for each new type of control. Shouldnt be too hard really.
> This is exactly what i expected to do at some point anyway,
> and so new ideas for new types of controls is really great
> to hear.

  Here is a screenshot to look at:
  http://www.integratedmoves.com/pictures/main.jpg
  
  As for the menus, the ones I'm thinking of are how they look
  on Win-XP, but I've seen several programs that has that feature
  while running under 98.
 
> Flat buttons?  You think that would be a good control?

  It's all about taste 
  But.... many programs these days have very slick user interfaces
  and if you are developing commercial grade software you must keep
  up. So, if I'm to switch to Eu for my companies projects, this is
  important (albeit not -very- important).

  Maybe I should look into full graphic replacements for the controls
  anyway. WinDev for example has a feature where you can use a BMP
  containing several states of a button (selected, clicked, mouse-
  over) on a graphic button, creating instant skinning.

> Probably take the Raised Button Class and create a new
> flat class out of that in about 10 minutes or less.
> Change the resulting file name to 'FlatButton.ew'.

  I'm not at home in OO windows programming to do that myself
  (at least not right away). I was hoping someone already did it.

> Any other ideas also welcome.

  Well, I mentioned it already: skinnable controls 

Hans Peter Willems