Thanks Chipp, That will certainly help out! Although I like to keep GUIs in their most native form. And in the case of compact GUI like ControlsN2O this is a hard to see factor...
I feel like I keep saying the emperor is naked without realizing he's taking a bath ;)) Do you have a tutorial on profiles or know where I can dig it? TIA Xa > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Chipp Walters > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 16:11 > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: Lessons from Themes > > Xavier, > > There are indeed a number of cross-platform positioning > issues as you describe. Though, I don't think of them as RR's > fault or responsibility, as they do provide tools to manage > it. Just check out 'profiles.' You can set the loc, width, > height, (in fact any property) of a control and then move it > on startup. It's not that hard. > > Also, as I'm sure many others have done, I have written my > own positioning layout library with specific toggles for > specific platforms. > > Lastly, there are a number of major cross platform > applications who ignore the repective native platform GUI's > in favor of their own custom versions. If you create a custom > GUI with it's own tabs, buttons, etc., then you need only > concern yourself with the font setting in fields (I like > Tahoma, it seems fairly consistent across Mac and PC platforms). > > I hope this helps. > > Chipp > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>Note that this was discussed previously, and it is unlikely that a > >>real "OS X" appearance will be possible under Windows, although you > >>might think they could get close enough to at least deal > with button > >>border offsets, field offsets, etc... > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
