Hi friends,
Derek Bump wrote:Imagine if you could create your own "lookAndFeel" types (otherwise known as Skins). This would be a HUGE advantage. You could make your own buttons, fields, menus, whatever. All in all, giving you the ability to make a user experience that much more interesting.
What's stopping anyone from doing this right now?
Altering the rendering routines would be a lot of work, and ultimately be very difficult for developers to use. That's why Apple and most others who offer skins and themes do so with a much simpler mechanism based on applying images to define the appearance of controls and even the window itself.
Elements already under complete control by Rev developers: - Window shapes using images - Button appearances using images - Fill and fore color and patterns for controls and the card
Take a good look at the Apple spec for skinning QT and you may be inspired to adopt some of that for making your own skin spec.
<http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/overview/media_skins.html>
thanks, good read and very inspiring :-)
And with Rev we could even go a step beyond by providing a non functional
copy of our interface with movable controls, the user arranges them, add images etc...
and clicks OK, we save the new locs, images etc... and voila, a VERY custom interface :-)
Very quick and wild idea, but easy doable, for sure! :-)
I'm making one for WebMerge and a couple other apps I'm working on....
Cool as ever, Richard :-)
Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation
Enjoy your weekend
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de
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