>Hi Mike,
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>> The only issue I have with it (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) is that it does not render that cool look and feel at design time. So in a way, one has to code "blind".
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>Alex has some great builders that optionally allow you to see how the toolbars and menus will layout at design time. Not a picture perfect preview, but IMO, very good. And in terms of previewing toolbars, much better than VFP's native capabilities.
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>As for me, I data drive my menus and toolbars vs. using VFP's menu builder or class designers (toolbars) so previewing menus and toolbars is not an issue for me. I've always built my forms independent of menus and toolbar layouts.
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>My ONLY issue with Alex's CommandBars is that it makes my menus and toolbars look soooooo good that the rest of my app looks like crap<g>! I just asked Alex if he could provide us with a way to dynamically generate gradient strips to match the gradient effects rendered by the current CommandBars VisualTheme. This way developers could upgrade the rest of their application to match the professional look and feel that CommandBars gives us.
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>If anyone reading this thread has an idea on how we might match the gradient effects of a CommandBar VisualTheme (so we could set container .Picture properties to equivalent bitmaps), please speak up!!!
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>Malcolm


Hi Malcolm & Mike,

I'm not sure whether my menu style looks good for you or not. BTW, I'm starting to try to convert all that things using VFP only (with BindEvents). I hope I can make it happen <*g*> This will be long week for me.

About gradient things, I think Craig Boyd has given you a sample code in one thread (from AirCon's code). You know it's the basic GDI API to start to make the very nice gradient color into your menu.

Regards