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| Howard_Casto:
lol I literally invented emulator wrappers and people still have to ask that question? www.oscarcontrols.com/lazarus |
| Havok:
Kids these days with their wrappers! I remember back in the day when when we just typed command line parameters to run our programs, no front ends, AND WE LIKED IT! Oh, and of course we walked to school, uphill, in the snow. BOTH WAYS! |
| Space Fractal:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on April 14, 2006, 06:23:56 pm ---Well that could be the issue as well. Different reigons use different fonts and font sizes as the system default. --- End quote --- If you didden't set the background colors, but let use the windows default, and (as you said) use the button a bit larger, it should works on virtual all themes (includning the great WindowBlinds) and not just the US/Blue XP theme (none of my friends actuelly use the blue theme trouch). I guess there are a stringwidth function in Visual Basic (I may guessing you use?) to check the width of the font with the string used. I hope you fix these, than think about it in the feature. This is just a tip. I have maybe a one real issue: * It seen it didden't autosave the button configs, when trying to launch a game? Maybe I shuld use a fresh Zinc to test. NB. THis is not critic your software, because the gui itself is great (setup), and it does what it does! |
| Howard_Casto:
No leaving the colors to their defaults don't work any better. By default, xp tabs are white. Xp frames are grey, it sounds like it'd look fine, but grey frames on white tabs looks awful. Text width also won't help. While I can get the width of the control and the width of a text string with that font size on it, it doesn't take into account the width of the actual checkbox. And since each theme has a different checkbox style, which is applied on top of the "real" checkbox I have no way or getting their actual width either. You wonder why m$ only released 3 official xp themes? That's why. Basically, they never really finished the theme framework and it's kinda cludged on top of the old stuff. You can't test until you save, so launching a seperate zinc process isn't going to change the results on that one. I don't autosave because I'm afraid users will be goofing around in the cfgs, launch a game, and then wonder why thier cfgs are off. Mind you it'd be their own fault, but still.... I think in the future I may add a prompt on that one though. |
| Space Fractal:
A prompt to save is fine when first it launch is fine. It could ask to autosave..... I guess people (like me) would use the launch to test the new layout, and trying to use the new layout have worked or not. I have only had the (white) color problems with this utility, so this is why I call this "bug" or a minor issue. The text wrapper problem could easily fixed to just make them about 10-20 pixels wider (as you said). The text wrapped also in the blue theme too. About the officiel themes: Maybe Windowblinds "took" the theme market, there are bunch of very professionel XP themes (that allways works on Win 98 as well), using it? PS. Just tested it: On my own config utility, the XP theme was disabled, but it still look fine on the blue theme without any other issues. I mind I never have tested on the blue theme before, or maybe only tested once. |
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