I really like the second one. Can you post how you did it or consider a vfp article on it?


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>>I've been playing more and more with killing off the white screen background, you had some nice examples of this. One trick I've found recently is to find a nice image that can be tiled and then screening it out till it's very faint and very muted. It breaks up the bright white glare and looks pretty good as the screen gets resized. Sometimes you can even do this with the customers logo.
>>Your interface was really uptown. High density and pretty with low intimidation factor.
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>>I've run the treads off my current approach (library).
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>>I am also appreciating "styles" like Ad-Aware. Granted, it's low density. But there is something about it. Ad-Aware's "tool" bar look and feel is interesting - but big.
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>>The jump to that next "phase" of GUI will take some planning. I am looking at issues like OCX, list and text controls having the same background color as the form. Getting rid of the contrast. I am also fooling with borderless controls.
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>>There is the "transparency" feature that might allow for some breakthroughs. Imagine mousing over page tabs - but instead of a "snap" to a page - there is a fade out with a concurrent fade in! Two pages could be seen, though overlayed, simutaneously. Of course, "transparency" is for "top level" forms, but that is not a barrier.
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>>Whatever happened to VR and the "virtual cube"!:-)
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>>I am thinking I should cruise some Asian SW sites for ideas too. Some of their design ideas approach appealing coolness too.
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>>You also have a lot of great examples of non-default color use in their. I'm gonna have to get out the magnifying glass and take a closer look later, I'm sure I'll find more stuff I missed.
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>>I'll put a bmp out there in the next couple. They look a lot better full screen. And I use that hottracking feature where appropriate and the data screams without seams!
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>>I can see by your project and the others that were shared that there are a few VFP programs out there that look like high end commercial programs I would buy off the rack! Kudos. And I am sure it's just the tip of the iceberg. I want to see more!
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>>Nothing beats a clean VFP app. I have seen non-VFP GUI's that looked pretty - but we all know - once the game gets to the data - none of those guys can keep up. Spinning logo or flaming logo?:-)
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>>ABout those background affects. When systems were slow, I refrained - it seemed that screens with a lot of "graphics" would struggle to resize.
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>>A source for shading (I used it to make it appear that the main form screen was a "cropped" shaded view of a storage tank) is Word!
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>>Open a word document. Drop a "rectangle" from the autoshape toolbar on the form. Right click the "rectangle" and select "Format Autoshape". You should see a combobox labeled fill. Click the combobox and select a color. Click it again and select "Fill Effects". Get something you like, copy it to Paint and save it as a image file. Stretch it into a control!
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>>You can also use the GetColor hue and saturation preview to come up with some weird stuff. I usually use gif. I am wondering if type of image file affects performance after the app is loaded. Like a bmp is big - so does that mean it slows performance more than a jpeg? (etc)