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V1.22 is out, see top of thread!

Chris.

Hey guys,

A new skinned SplitterEx control is now almost complete and will be one of the new controls included in the next update along with a visual skin editor tool

Cheers!

Chris.

Today, I feel like telling you a tale of trolling (don't try this at home, I'm what you call a professional: I'm from 4ch)...


I was happily going around listening some nice and quiet christian music (Juda's Priest, thank's to them, I'm so not going to hell )


Then, while I was turning around the PreferencesExemple, something caught my eye...


AND SUDDENLY TROLLFACE!

...

During that time, at Chris's home:


More seriously, little bug report (in a pretty unusual way, I admit): there is a little drawing problem with panelEX on my desktop comp (didn't tried it anywhere else).

hahaha lol awesome! and epic thats the best bug report ever Poshu!
I especially like the last cartoon box, very true lol

I'll add the automatic border masking code to the tab theme background which should get rid of that ugly white space and make it transparent.
The new SplitterEx is pretty much fully functional now and made a good start on the skin tool. I'm going to add a couple of more smaller controls too such as skinned radio buttons, check box etc.. should take about a week. Then the update after that will be the major update with 2 new big controls (which will be free to registered users however for anyone new registering the price will be increased slightly), this should be out shortly after the next update. Then work will begin on a new visual designer

Chris.

Thank you ^__^

Actually, the white border is right (according to the width and height arguments of the CreatePanelEx() function at least), it's the grey box that's a bit too small :p

Poshu wrote: Actually, the white border is right (according to the width and height arguments of the CreatePanelEx() function at least), it's the grey box that's a bit too small :p

ah yes I see what you mean, I'll sort it

Chris.

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Thanks!

Chris.

Something on my wishlist: it would be nice to have a default font option for the TextControlEx gadget cause SystemParametersInfo() is really not convenient to use. Plus, is there a way to use cleartype?

Hey Poshu,

Poshu wrote:Something on my wishlist: it would be nice to have a default font option for the TextControlEx gadget cause SystemParametersInfo() is really not convenient to use. Plus, is there a way to use cleartype?

Sure, I'll add the functionality in the next update with cleartype all the Windows API Font commands can be used with the TextControlEx just pass a handle to the LOGFONT instead of PB Font ID to SetTextControlExFont. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx

I'll make so the anti-aliased parameter can be set to clear-type too as well in the next update.

Chris.

Ok, I didn't knew the CreateFont funtion. Thank you

Poshu wrote:Ok, I didn't knew the CreateFont funtion. Thank you

No worries Poshu

Chris.

Great lib Chris, works real smooth and well worth the outlay, in my opinion, especially with the discount.
30000+ lines of source code, your fingers must be worn down to the bone.
I am learning a lot of good coding techniques from browsing through the source and examples and am able to easily create some real slick looking and working GUI from the lib.
Keep up the good work, can't wait for the next update.

You probably already know this, When installed on PB460b3 I get 1 POLINK: error '_PB_FindString'

electrochrisso wrote:Great lib Chris, works real smooth and well worth the outlay, in my opinion, especially with the discount.

Thank you very much! I'm happy you're pleased with it

electrochrisso wrote:30000+ lines of source code, your fingers must be worn down to the bone.

haha lol yes phew! sometimes I have dreams about the code currently it stands at 33595 lines!

electrochrisso wrote:I am learning a lot of good coding techniques from browsing through the source and examples and am able to easily create some real slick looking and working GUI from the lib.

Thats great! I'm glad my work is helping and thank you it's a really nice compliment

electrochrisso wrote:Keep up the good work, can't wait for the next update.

Thanks hopefully it will be ready pretty soon!

electrochrisso wrote:You probably already know this, When installed on PB460b3 I get 1 POLINK: error '_PB_FindString'

ahh I had a sneaky suspicion it might not work with the latest PB beta, thanks for reporting, I'll re-compile the userlibs as soon as PB460 goes final and Tailbite supports it.

Just a quick update on the new release: The new SplitterEx control is working beautifully and I'm currently updating the Gradient subsystem with more types of gradients. By the way, the gradient subsystem has always called GDI plus directly (even before PB had gradients!) and therefore is slightly faster than PB's gradients. In the future all the rendering on Windows7+ will automatically be done using the Windows Direct2D API

Cheers!

Chris.

Hi guys!

Sorry for the delay in getting the new release out, I digressed slightly to test out Direct 2D rendering in Windows 7 instead of GDI+ (have a working prototype wrapper lib in PureBasic now). This will most likely be implemented in the major update or the update after, a new drawing sub API will also be made available that will automatically render using either GDI+ or Direct 2D.

Chris.

I'm puzzled. What will the difference be? Is there any advantage to the Direct 2D?