Tuesday, April 03, 2007, 10:43:50 AM, Graeme wrote: GG> Have a look at the fpGUI website. Those screenshots are a bit old, GG> but will give you a good idea. GG> Half those screenshots show the Windows 9x theme (under Linux), the GG> other half show the GFX backend doing painting.
GG> http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ GG> As those screenshots show, getting the Windows look is really easy. GG> And seeing the 95% of the world use Windows, you'll make many people GG> feel right at home. Unfortunately, not. By now fpGUI has (most of) the look, but does not have the feel. For example: - The caret does not blink in Edit field. Enter 'i', put a caret over it and you'll have no idea of what is behind the caret. Note that in Windows that 'i' will be visible even when the caret blinks on. - Clicking second time on ComboBox dropdown arrow does not close it as one would expect (the third click, however, closes the combo). - When dragging a scrollbar thumb, if you drag mouse off the scrollbar, it stops scrolling and, moreover, reverts to position where the dragging was started. - It ignores Windows settings for hiding keyboard cues and focus rectangles. And there are tons of similar issues, which make any fpGUI app feel extermely alien in Windows. As a programmer, I can say that fixing such issues is actually a much harder and boring job than what you had already done. Nevertheless, you are on a really good way with the fpGUI! Being free of legacy bugs and external dependencies, and at the same time compatible with VCL to a certain degree, it has real potential to eventually become a very useful library. -- Best regards, Sergei _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
