GUI Improvements

[marcov]

Personally I hate GUI's like that, that are dolled up by changing as many properties from their default values as possible.

If I want to achieve something, I simply want the UI to be as standard as possible, and this 'playtime" should be invested in following the HIG to the letter, and setting stuff like tab-order, keyboard shortcuts etc.

Oh, and to the judgemental people, I've made such stresstools many times for perfectly legit purposes.

[Jishaxe]

No, the amount of downloads, Alpha testers and the amount of people talking about it on the lunch table :L

[TurboRascal]

Personally I hate GUI's like that, that are dolled up by changing as many properties from their default values as possible.

There is another hidden peril here, one regarding usability. Namely, the "theme" created may work fine with the programmers system theme, but when someone else with a different color scheme starts it, weird things like light text on light background or dark text on dark background can happen.

That is tipical for inverse and dark themes if such software was created on a "more usual" color scheme; this is especially problematic when high contrast and/or inverse color accessibility schemes are used...

[Jishaxe]

Personally I hate GUI's like that, that are dolled up by changing as many properties from their default values as possible.

There is another hidden peril here, one regarding usability. Namely, the "theme" created may work fine with the programmers system theme, but when someone else with a different color scheme starts it, weird things like light text on light background or dark text on dark background can happen.

That is tipical for inverse and dark themes if such software was created on a "more usual" color scheme; this is especially problematic when high contrast and/or inverse color accessibility schemes are used...

Yeah, I've come across this problem before.
You know the blue bar at the bottom with white text? On Windows that compiled to have black text, which wasn't readable so I had to change the colour on the Windows edition. In the future I may use one of those IFDEF thingies to make the text white in Windows...

[fabienwang]

I personally try to conform to standard/defaults fonts/colors etc. so the applications appears in the user theme. But sometimes you have to space more your components to make it look good on most platforms.

[Leledumbo]

Haha, as I said up, the reason it's all blue is because my theme is that colour.

It's fine, just pick a little brighter color JUST for the button. Lower down the blue part of the color a little, if you use 24-bit hex, FF to DD or CC is enough I guess.

[Jishaxe]

Haha, as I said up, the reason it's all blue is because my theme is that colour.

It's fine, just pick a little brighter color JUST for the button. Lower down the blue part of the color a little, if you use 24-bit hex, FF to DD or CC is enough I guess.

Not sure what you mean by that, sorry. I just use clColours How would I darken the button colour if the button would just show up as white on Windows?