Lessons from Themes

[MisterX]

Thanks Chipp,

That will certainly help out! Although I like to keep GUIs in their
most native form. And in the case of compact GUI like ControlsN2O
this is a hard to see factor...

I feel like I keep saying the emperor is naked without realizing
he's taking a bath ;))

Do you have a tutorial on profiles or know where I can dig it?

TIA
Xa 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Chipp Walters
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 16:11
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: Lessons from Themes
> 
> Xavier,
> 
> There are indeed a number of cross-platform positioning 
> issues as you describe. Though, I don't think of them as RR's 
> fault or responsibility, as they do provide tools to manage 
> it. Just check out 'profiles.' You can set the loc, width, 
> height, (in fact any property) of a control and then move it 
> on startup. It's not that hard.
> 
> Also, as I'm sure many others have done, I have written my 
> own positioning layout library with specific toggles for 
> specific platforms.
> 
> Lastly, there are a number of major cross platform 
> applications who ignore the repective native platform GUI's 
> in favor of their own custom versions. If you create a custom 
> GUI with it's own tabs, buttons, etc., then you need only 
> concern yourself with the font setting in fields (I like 
> Tahoma, it seems fairly consistent across Mac and PC platforms).
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Chipp
> 
> xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:
> 
> >>Note that this was discussed previously, and it is unlikely that a 
> >>real "OS X" appearance will be possible under Windows, although you 
> >>might think they could get close enough to at least deal 
> with button 
> >>border offsets, field offsets, etc...
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