Jorgen, could you please make eXT's window, subwindows (dialogboxes) and scrollbars using the standard windows appearance? I think this would be a great visual improvement for the standalone program! If the user is running windows in Classic-Style, he get's classic appearance for eXT too. If the user is running windows with Luna-Style, eXT's window(s) will use it too.
Please consider this for eXT2. I would appreciate it highly!
Please also don't forget to add a proper icon to the standalone programfile. I also would love to see "standalone.exe" renamed to "ext.exe" or "ext2.exe".
Many thanks!
Use standard windows appearance for eXT's window(s)
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- KVRian
- 1263 posts since 15 Jun, 2004 from hamburg
i guess he won't as XT2 will be cross-platform (linux) so the window handling will be something that's os independent.Dandruff wrote:Please consider this for eXT2. I would appreciate it highly!
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
Could this be done with a skin? I've done very little with eXT so I don't know, but having seen some of the skins that are out there, it seems likely to me.
[edit] "Snap," as they say.
[edit] "Snap," as they say.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 687 posts since 27 Dec, 2003
i don't think, this is a problem.R.A.W. wrote:i guess he won't as XT2 will be cross-platform (linux) so the window handling will be something that's os independent.
M'Snah wrote:eXT is skinnable... You probably can do all this yourself.
no, you can't (at least not in ext1). you also would have to create a new skin each time you change the style in windows.Meffy wrote:Could this be done with a skin?
here a skin i've created sometime ago, where i found out the limitations of skinning: http://asseca.com/wiki/Skins/Classic (scrollbars, buttons and border-widths all don't look and behave like a standard window)
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- KVRAF
- 3347 posts since 8 Nov, 2003 from Amsterdam
I never change the style in Windows... But I understand what you mean...Dandruff wrote:no, you can't (at least not in ext1). you also would have to create a new skin each time you change the style in windows.Meffy wrote:Could this be done with a skin?
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- KVRist
- 103 posts since 5 Mar, 2004
To me, the irritating factor is not appearance (I like the looks of Xt with its skins just fine), but rather that, for example, scrollbars do not behave like standard Windows scrollbars: under Windows, when you click above or below a scrollbar handle, you move one page up or down; that does not happen with the Xt widgets. And that's not the only example of non-standard widget behaviour.
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- KVRAF
- 35294 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
I'm sure I've seen an XP Silver skin for eXT as well.
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- KVRist
- 30 posts since 14 Aug, 2006 from Bydgoszcz, Poland
-1 for native windows look (its probably impossible anyway)
+0.1 for windows-like gui behavior
+0.1 for more skinning freedom
(there are many much more important things imo)
+0.1 for windows-like gui behavior
+0.1 for more skinning freedom
(there are many much more important things imo)
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- KVRAF
- 5818 posts since 9 Jul, 2002 from Helsinki
That's why.i guess he won't as XT2 will be cross-platform (linux) so the window handling will be something that's os independent.
I don't see the point of this idea
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 687 posts since 27 Dec, 2003
look at cubase and ableton live for example: cross-platform too and they use the standard windows style ...
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- KVRian
- 1024 posts since 25 Apr, 2002
well, i don't care much about the GUI=windows as far as visuals is concerned. but like it was said before, it would be great if XT did behave just like windows/explorer behaves, like scrollbar behaviour, etc..jon wrote:That's why.i guess he won't as XT2 will be cross-platform (linux) so the window handling will be something that's os independent.
I don't see the point of this idea
my opinion is keep XT's GUI OS-dependend as it is already, but do add standard OS behaviours.
