>Just a little something to add about "Windwows Standard GUI"......
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>Has anyone tried to install MSN Explorer???
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>What happened to the standard???
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I didn't say
anything about the Windows standard for GUI implementation, just offering you a method of accomplishing what you piss and moan about within the capacities of the product today. I'm not getting into the fact that you're at variance with the set of guidelines nominally agreed to by and for Windows development, just that they is a way to do what you want today with standard tools supported by VFP today. This goes back to VFP 5 and 6 as well.
But, hey, I'd rather make things work now than bitch and moan about meaningless features I want to please my sense of aesthetics (or total lack thereof.) YMMV.
Ed Rauh
Purveyor of bad taste in GUIs nationwide
>Aloha,
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>James
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>>>Vlad , Nadya Glen
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>>>I think I have read all these points here many many times, Its one of those frustrating things about our friend Fox.
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>>>>>Your point is well taken. But they have the blueprint. I don't think they will consume a lot of time by accomodating important cosmetic enhancements.
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>>>in refrence to the above point, I find it interesting that in the PreBeta release I picked up a devcon 2000 the command buttons could take of the background color property, when you had I think it was hot tracking option on.. (might have been flat style) I loved the nature of it, commented to Mike of Microsoft, that I was hoping that that 'feature' however undocumented would stay there for the final release. I was assured that it was there by design and would stay.... now all of us who have the VFP7 know that MS had another idea... and took out the 'feature' for the final release.
>>>So I dont think its something that would take a great deal of effort to add, but its a feature that Breaks the windows API- or GUI standards, and thus, I dont think we will ever see it as an 'option'
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>>>I just have to remember, that decisions about some of the features of any MS product has to take into account the entire direction of the MS tools, and remain standard across development tools or some such nonsense.
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>>>Bring on the colored buttons I say... Bring them on. Let us mess up the MS GUI standards, We are not kids, if we want to have our apps look like something generate by java, or Delphi or CA-VA or Dbase2000 or TCL why cant we ?
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>>>Enough of my rant for tonight.
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>>Nothing to stop you from using an ActiveX control if it's that freaking important!
