Actually the latter of the 2 blog posts is an attempt to duplicate the look and feel fo 4D Write. The 30 Nov post is interesting and for me I think more intuitive.
Count me in with the “lazy”. The whole idea of a component, plug-in, library… whatever is to save me time. So I think it is great that 4D Write Pro provides the developer with the ability to create a custom interface. On the other hand,howver, I feel strongly that it should come with a built in interface or one should be provided in the future to use out of the box. John > On Dec 13, 2017, at 9:09 AM, Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2017, at 11:28 AM, Paul Dennis wrote: > >> I appreciate that 4d has got round to providing us with a tool bar. Can >> somebody please tell the designers who seem to rule the roost that we dont >> need great big icons and clunky fonts. What is the obsession ? Please can we >> have something like the original 4d write style. > > You are provided all the source code and images. So you take what you like > and replace what you don’t like. Or you can build your own completely from > scratch. > > That’s the beauty of how they have implemented 4D Write Pro. It is totally up > to you to provide any interface you want with as much detail, or as simple as > you think is best. This is just a starting point to provide an example of how > to do that. And for the lazy ones that don’t want to spend any time on a > custom UI. > > If you want the original 4D Write style interface, you can easily create it > yourself. > > I prefer this to the old way of 4D doing things where you took what they gave > you and that was the end of it. I will take this example and remove some > items that I feel my users don’t need to be burdened with. And I will change > the icons to colorized versions and a bit smaller. Then they will my the UI > of my existing 4D applications. > > Tim > > ******************************************** > Tim Nevels > Innovative Solutions > 785-749-3444 > [email protected] > ******************************************** > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** John Baughman Kailua, Hawaii (808) 262-0328 [email protected] ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
