About Box

Tom7777 · 3 May 2005

Comments anyone? did you find this helpful?

unkargherth · 4 May 2005

Nice Work Tom7777.

I find it very useful, at least as learning example. Very interesting the Alpha Blend Hoover, although i'm more on minimalist interface style, so i usually don't use bitmaps

ONly one thing. I usually expect the "About" boxes have an "Accept" button instead of a "Close" one, But i supose this is a matter of taste

Anyay if you can manage to do it, Perfection should be that about box appear on RightClicking the background of an vst, if that's posible

Tom7777 · 4 May 2005

I find it very useful, at least as learning example. Very interesting the Alpha Blend Hoover, although i'm more on minimalist interface style, so i usually don't use bitmaps

Hi, Thanks im pleased that you liked it. I can make a more basic version if you like. I wanted to make it more advanced but it should be fine to make more simple.

ONly one thing. I usually expect the "About" boxes have an "Accept" button instead of a "Close" one, But i supose this is a matter of taste

Do you mean like a "Are you sure - Ok, Cancel" message that you often find in windows programs? I will probably be able to but that would take more work than it seems as if it should, but ok i will make one sometime.

Anyay if you can manage to do it, Perfection should be that about box appear on RightClicking the background of an vst, if that's posible

Yes it is and i will make that for you. Please reply to confirm that these are what you want. Thanks 🙂

unkargherth · 4 May 2005

Tom7777 wrote: Do you mean like a "Are you sure - Ok, Cancel" message that you often find in windows programs? I will probably be able to but that would take more work than it seems as if it should, but ok i will make one sometime.

No, I mean only an "Accept" hotspot ( no need for an animated Button )

Tom7777 wrote: Yes it is and i will make that for you. Please reply to confirm that these are what you want. Thanks 🙂

Lots of Thanks for it;

Anyway, i have a question to you, as you seem the resident graphics guru here 😀. It's posible to create a resizable Bitmap that can be resized in pixel units instead of Grid Units?

jorge · 4 May 2005

Hi Tom

I just tried your about box, I think it's really good. I thought we'd have to wait to have a custom dialog box to do it but your solution is not bad at all.

Tom7777 · 4 May 2005

Anyway, i have a question to you, as you seem the resident graphics guru here Bigsmile. It's posible to create a resizable Bitmap that can be resized in pixel units instead of Grid Units?

Im still trying to learn everything thing GUI module based with SM, but i will make an example for you sometime to do this type of thing. I think the best thing though would be the option to turn off grid snap in the options which needs to be added at some point i think. 🙂

I just tried your about box, I think it's really good. I thought we'd have to wait to have a custom dialog box to do it but your solution is not bad at all.

Thats good to hear, im actually making another about box example right now which will be easy for any SM user. It also uses no bitmaps for its GUI. Basically im going to try and do loads of stuff with. And i will probably put it online tomorrow for everyone to download.

infuzion · 5 May 2005

I played with it last nite; very helpfull in learning the more fancy uses of SM GUI 🙂

Tom7777 · 5 May 2005

Im glad you liked it infuzion, I have just finished V2 of about box, or you could say About box 2 because it is completely different and you can set options for it with a few clicks of the mouse. I will post the link for it soon.

Tom7777 · 5 May 2005

Ok here it is version 2 -

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stefan · 5 May 2005

Looking real nice 🙂

Tom7777 · 5 May 2005

Looking real nice 🙂

thanks stefancrs 🙂

skOre · 6 May 2005

Can't look at it right now, but what I didn't like about V1 was, that it was Bitmap-based :P

Tom7777 · 6 May 2005

Can't look at it right now, but what I didn't like about V1 was, that it was Bitmap-based :P

Well then you will probably like V2 because it uses none 🙂

skOre · 6 May 2005

Wahoo! 😉