Step 1: Get high quality bitmaps for your buttons etc. Don't use old or nasty
images.
Step 2: Big buttons with big images AND text. Le the users remove the text
once they are experienced.
Step 3: Profit
Regards
Sean Cross
IT Systems Development Manager
Catalyst Risk Management
PO Box 230
Sean,
Got a place where said buttons can be purchased from? :-)
Thanks!
Sean Cross wrote:
Step 1: Get high quality bitmaps for your buttons etc. Don't use old or nasty
images.
Step 2: Big buttons with big images AND text. Le the users remove the text
once they are experienced.
Step 3:
I'd avoid using BMPs for images on buttons and use PNGs instead. You
wont be able to use the standard TBitBtn or TSpeedButton however. You
could try
http://www.thany.org/article/32/PngComponents
which are free buttons that support PNGs is you don't already have a set
(and are small of
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Sean,
Got a place where said buttons can be purchased from? :-)
Thanks!
Sean Cross wrote:
Step 1: Get high quality bitmaps for your
.
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I'd avoid using BMPs for images on buttons and use
If you have the TMS components, the TAdvGlowButton is very nice and can
be modified to look almost any way.
Jason
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I use Clever Icons (www.clevericons.com.au) for my custom images.
Although they don't have a set of toolbar icons yet (too busy with
custom work apparently). They have small icon set you can download.
For off the shelf stuff you can try:
www.glyfx.com
www.glyfz.com
www.glyphlab.com
The only drawback with them is that they are Aussies!
Hey, that's not nice. g
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Sean,
Got a place where said buttons can be purchased from? :-)
Thanks!
Sean Cross wrote:
Step 1
you.
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I'd avoid using BMPs for images
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I'd avoid using BMPs for images on buttons and use PNGs instead. You
wont be able to use the standard TBitBtn or TSpeedButton however. You
could try
http://www.thany.org/article/32/PngComponents
which are free
] Graphical User Interface Design
I'd avoid using BMPs for images on buttons and use PNGs instead. You
wont be able to use the standard TBitBtn or TSpeedButton however. You
could try
http://www.thany.org/article/32/PngComponents
which are free buttons that support PNGs is you don't already have
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HI All,
At 10:57 on 29/06/2007 Jeremy wrote
The only drawback with them is that they are Aussies!
Hey, that's not nice. g
Looks like they got really upset at that last comment and took their website
offline .
http://www.clevericons.com.au/ returns server not found.
kr
gary
Gary T. Benner wrote:
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Looks like they got really upset at that last comment and took their
website offline .
http://www.clevericons.com.au/ returns server not found.
.com
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Richard Vowles, Product Evangelist
Developers Inc Ltd (for Delphi, C++ Builder, JBuilder, InterBase)
web.
Seems this went straight to Gary.
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Date: Jun 29, 2007 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [DUG] Graphical User Interface Design
Looks like they got really upset at that last comment and took their website
offline .
http
Well that's the start of a big discussion!
Quickly off the top of my head:
Its good to use someone with an eye for visual composition as in
photography/painting to look over the layout of the screen.
Use the alignment stuff supplied in the IDE
Make some overall design decisions - eg I tend to
Agree John,
I'll also reiterate what you may have been saying without saying it...
CONSTANCY. If it acts this way on this screen, then it should act the
same way on ALL screens.
Follow Microsoft's ever-changing standards.
From the Microsoft unofficial book of Confusion ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
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