Doubt

[William T. Simmons]

Fabio,
As someone who started programming on the Mac, but for various
business-related reasons is marooned in the PC world, I hope you persist in
your efforts to achieve the Mac look. Even died-in-the-wool Windows users
are trainable as to the look and feel of an application. If the application
is good enough, i.e., rock-solid in what it's supposed to do, users will
forgive slight deviations in GUI standards. On my Windows XP, I've got a Mac
OSX visual theme, so I get to pretend that I have Mac OSX on my PC while I'm
working (except the min/max/close buttons are on the right side, not the
left - oh, well)*. Take Klaus' suggestion and get the Mac look-and-feel into
your application by means of scripted graphics - your users will be
impressed.

This question is for the list in general: are there by now any collections
available (CD-ROM or download) of general-purpose Aqua-look graphics for use
in application or Web development? I could go the long route of using Paint
Shop Pro to try to emulate that look, but I'm not a graphics wiz and would
just as soon purchase some good Aqua-style graphics as a set.

Tommy Simmons
Employment Law Advisory Network
www.employmentlawadvisors.com

* There's no way it equals the real thing. For instance, XP has *nothing*
that even remotely resembles the look and the action of the docking bar (or
whatever it's called) at the bottom center of the OSX screen - the fluidity
with which the icons resize with the mouseOver event blew me away the first
several dozen or so times I saw it - it still strikes me as technology that
Apple must have stolen from an advanced extraterrestrial civilization
somewhere...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Klaus Major" <kmajor at metascape.org>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: Doubt


> Bom dias Fabio,
>
> > Hi, I am a new developer in Revolution and I just want to know if I can
> > make Windows programs with an MacOS-application appearence.
> > Thanks
>
> try this:
>
> set the lookandfeel to "Macintosh"
>
> (See "lookandfeel" in the docs)
>
> So you can have the Mac-Look for buttons, scrollbars etc.
>
> But the windowtitle etc. will still be spplied from the windows-os.
>
> With a bit (more :-) of extra work you could even change that.
>
> But then you will have to make lots of screenshots on a Mac,
> make your REV-windows borderless, and fake the Mac-window-look with
> graphics.
>
> But beware, windows user are used to lots of windows-specific features.
>
> So i don't think they can easily switch to close windows with buttons on
> the left side
> of the windowtitle instead of the right ide (windows-look) for example...
>
> But it is doable in general.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> If not drop some more lines ;-)
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Klaus Major
> kmajor at metascape.org
>
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