So I got a wild hair today and did something I've been wanting to do for a while.
I was inspired by this screenshot of possible MID's (Mobile Internet Devices) that run Linux: http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/misc/intel_redflag_MIDinux_UI.jpg I liked the nav bar on the middle screenshot, and decided to replicate the feel of it in a Lazarus component. I designed the component to work with touch screens, so you can click and drag to slide around the bar, but no mouseover events are used. It's a TPanel descendant that lets you load graphical buttons onto it. The buttons can be any width or height, and don't have to be uniform: http://tony.maro.net/ossramblings/tmmobile.php Captions are optional and you can make it any size. The screenshots don't really do it justice - you have to drag the bar around to get the full experience. Is anyone doing PocketPC devel out there? This would be a great gadget for it. You could use it like I did as a launcher, but it could easily display thumbnails of images for an image viewer, even for desktop PC's. The background colors are customizable. I'm excited, because if any MID's are actually released that run Linux and have GTK, Lazarus would be an awesome development environment for new applications! -Tony
