Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2006-01-04 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:12:35 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco van de Voort) wrote: I have prepared some screenshots of a concept look and feel for Lazarus. Please check it out at: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/GUI_design#Look_and_Feel Feel free to comment

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2006-01-02 Thread dannym
Hi, [...] As a side note, see gtk_dialog_set_alternative_button_order for how gtk solved that issue, by allowing two different button orders to be specified by the designer and the right one being selected depending on the operating system. Does that mean I can switch button order in

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2006-01-02 Thread dannym
Hi, Am Montag, den 02.01.2006, 22:29 +0100 schrieb Christian Iversen: On Monday 02 January 2006 19:18, dannym wrote: Hi, [...] As a side note, see gtk_dialog_set_alternative_button_order for how gtk solved that issue, by allowing two different button orders to be specified by

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-31 Thread Micha Nelissen
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:26:50 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha Nelissen wrote: Maybe we can make a TButtonPanel or so, that is aligned alBottom, of which you specify which buttons you want, with what captions, and then it determines the order based on OS. It can also

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Micha Nelissen wrote: Maybe we can make a TButtonPanel or so, that is aligned alBottom, of which you specify which buttons you want, with what captions, and then it determines the order based on OS. It can also handle the margins between dialog border and buttons so that it's constant for all

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-31 Thread Darius Blaszijk
VFI is something I really miss from Delphi. I just tried, and it works, you can inherit a form without problems. Darius _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-31 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On 31 Dec 2005 14:43:05 +0100 Darius Blaszijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 14:30, Micha Nelissen wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:26:50 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha Nelissen wrote: Maybe we can make a TButtonPanel or so, that is aligned

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Micha Nelissen wrote: Forgive my ignorance, but how does that help in this context ? Visual Form Inheritance is just like class inheritance, but for the GUI. I used it extensively in Delphi with my applications, and save me loads of work. Example of how I used it: 1) I created a form

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-31 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Micha Nelissen wrote: Forgive my ignorance, but how does that help in this context ? Visual Form Inheritance is just like class inheritance, but for the GUI. I used it extensively in Delphi with my applications, and save me loads of work.

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-31 Thread Darius Blaszijk
VFI is something I really miss from Delphi. What is VFI exactly? On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 14:26, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Micha Nelissen wrote: Maybe we can make a TButtonPanel or so, that is aligned alBottom, of which you specify which buttons you want, with what captions, and then it

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Darius Blaszijk wrote: VFI is something I really miss from Delphi. I just tried, and it works, you can inherit a form without problems. Not sure what version you are using, but it ain't working here. I updated my Lazarus from SVN yesterday morning (8388). Also when VFI is implemented,

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-31 Thread Darius Blaszijk
On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 14:30, Micha Nelissen wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:26:50 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha Nelissen wrote: Maybe we can make a TButtonPanel or so, that is aligned alBottom, of which you specify which buttons you want, with what captions, and

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-31 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:34:25 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darius Blaszijk wrote: VFI is something I really miss from Delphi. I just tried, and it works, you can inherit a form without problems. Not sure what version you are using, but it ain't working here. I

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-31 Thread Micha Nelissen
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:08:52 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't this sound much simpler than editing 20-30 forms and repeating the same TButtonPanel on all of them? Nothing prevents us doing both: making a TButtonPanel, and having a TCustomDialog that already has a

[lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-30 Thread dhkblaszyk
I have prepared some screenshots of a concept look and feel for Lazarus. Please check it out at: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/GUI_design#Look_and_Feel Feel free to comment, but please accept that this is just a concept. So It has no use to discuss the details of the displayd

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-30 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to comment, but please accept that this is just a concept. So It has no use to discuss the details of the displayd forms themselves unless I like the idea (from Gnome I believe) you used in the Search/Replace dialog. Using bold

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-30 Thread Marco van de Voort
I have prepared some screenshots of a concept look and feel for Lazarus. Please check it out at: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/GUI_design#Look_and_Feel Feel free to comment, but please accept that this is just a concept. So It has no use to discuss the details

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-30 Thread Tony Maro
Marco van de Voort wrote: I have prepared some screenshots of a concept look and feel for Lazarus. Please check it out at: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/GUI_design#Look_and_Feel Feel free to comment, but please accept that this is just a concept. So It has no use to discuss

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-30 Thread dannym
Hi, Am Freitag, den 30.12.2005, 10:09 -0500 schrieb Tony Maro: Marco van de Voort wrote: I have prepared some screenshots of a concept look and feel for Lazarus. Please check it out at: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/GUI_design#Look_and_Feel Feel free to comment

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-30 Thread Darius Blaszijk
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 14:12, Marco van de Voort wrote: Help should be optional tho. Lots of grayed out boxes everywhere are IMHO evil. Disable them. True, that is be the intention. - First, the positive button should always be right, IOW cancel should be left from the positive one.

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-30 Thread Micha Nelissen
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:26:55 +0100 dannym [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a side note, see gtk_dialog_set_alternative_button_order for how gtk solved that issue, by allowing two different button orders to be specified by the designer and the right one being selected depending on the operating

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-30 Thread Darius Blaszijk
- First, the positive button should always be right, IOW cancel should be left from the positive one. Note that there is inconsistency in the screenshots. The todolist info screen is ok in this respect, the lower ones not. Just updated the WIKI Darius

Re: [lazarus] Look and feel of Lazarus

2005-12-30 Thread Christian Iversen
On Friday 30 December 2005 16:26, dannym wrote: Hi, Am Freitag, den 30.12.2005, 10:09 -0500 schrieb Tony Maro: Marco van de Voort wrote: I have prepared some screenshots of a concept look and feel for Lazarus. Please check it out at: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php