Hey Dave - regarding this older posting of yours. I'm curious to know if you
have made more progress on implementing Metro style interfaces in VFP -
since, we (at my day job) - have this App that we are looking to run on a
Tablet - and I MUST give it a proper Overhaul ASAP!
Thanks in Advance!
-K-
Posted:
2012.11.13 at 05:58:33
To All,
I was just playing around with VFP last night after having developed my
first metro app in Visual
Studio last week and wondered how a Metro style interface could be
developed in VFP. A small video
of the results of my deliberations is at:
http://www.replacement-software.co.uk/VFP_Metro/
I haven't had time to add callouts and commentry etc just yet as the whole
project took up my time
(about 4 hours) but I will do once the classes are in a stable state at
which time I hope to have a
set of classes made that will allow Metro buttons and info to be easily put
into any VFP App simply
by dragging and dropping a Metro surface onto a form and polpulating it with
Geoups and Items
...(you can see this in the video).
The result so far are:
1. A scrollable Metro "desktop" so that you can hold more buttons than can
ve viewed on the desktop
2. Metro style buttons that can have the caption in either the centre or the
four corners of the
button as well as a relocatable picture on the button.
3. Metro Groups. Consisting of selections of metro buttons that can be
dragged and dropped within
the allocated group and re-ordered into a pre-defined column/row Metro
sequence.
4. The ability to drag/drop the Metro Groups around on the desktop
5. The ability to drag/drop Metro buttons around within their parent group
in real time ... and
then re-order the group
The next step is to give the Metro interface a "skinnable colour" property
that will be changeable
in real time ... this is done but I haven't had time to incorporate it as of
yet.
If anyone shows any interest in the video or the development then post on
here with regards to
possible enhancements etc. and comments will be gratefully accepted, good or
bad.
When I have a set of classes in workable form then I intend to post the
source on Codeplex with full
source.
The fox can still run with the best...
Have fun,
Dave
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