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Re: Form Designer for Mac/Windows/Linux -5.00b2 (update!)

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I liked the ribbon; looked great to me.
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Re: Form Designer for Mac/Windows/Linux -5.00b2 (update!)

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I actually liked the look of the ribbon, albeit it was a little too "big" for my taste.. Oh well

Can you reinstate it as a Preference option maybe? Along with a size? (small / medium / large)
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Zach wrote:I actually liked the look of the ribbon, albeit it was a little too "big" for my taste.. Oh well

Can you reinstate it as a Preference option maybe? Along with a size? (small / medium / large)
It surely looked better than the usual toolbars/menubars, but since I moved the different gadget types to the sidebar, the ribbon wasn't really useful.

It's actually better to have a more consistent UI between the IDE and the Form Designer as well ;)
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Re: Form Designer for Mac/Windows/Linux -5.00b2 (update!)

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I also liked the look of the ribbon but it was more Windows / Microsoft like.
When it comes to cross platform, the new approach might be more logical.
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Re: Form Designer for Mac/Windows/Linux -5.00b2 (update!)

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Without ribbons i can use the designer on my netbook too :D
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Re: Form Designer for Mac/Windows/Linux -5.00b2 (update!)

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ts-soft wrote:Without ribbons i can use the designer on my netbook too :D
The designer is not a toy, it is a tool :wink:
Well the ribbon is a nice interface for apps like Word I think, when you've got plenty of options. As the FD hasn't, it did make sense to remove it ;)
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Re: Form Designer for Mac/Windows/Linux -5.00b2 (update!)

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Polo wrote:
ts-soft wrote:Without ribbons i can use the designer on my netbook too :D
The designer is not a toy, it is a tool :wink:
Well the ribbon is a nice interface for apps like Word I think, when you've got plenty of options. As the FD hasn't, it did make sense to remove it ;)
I also prefer the new version since it needs to be a productive tool. It also makes sense to make it look similiar to the PB IDE.
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Re: Form Designer for Mac/Windows/Linux -5.00b2 (update!)

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Quick screen of how the new menu editor will look like - not finished yet, still have to add drag and drop, and OS skins :)

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Re: Form Designer for Mac/Windows/Linux -5.00b2 (update!)

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I've finished working on the new menu tool, it's not perfect but much easier than the old one :)
It also makes the interface more consistent as almost everything is now handled in the main window :)
I'll try to release an update tonight or tomorrow, I need to fix my wifi connection first...
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Re: Form Designer for Mac/Windows/Linux -5.00b2 (update!)

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Wifi not working on my mac is really annoying - still managed to build beta 2.2!

Hopefully most of the things should be working fine, but as I did plenty of modifications since last update, there might be some problems here and there... Please test :)

I take this opportunity to thanks those who have donated, it really helps!

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Re: Form Designer 5.00 beta 2.2

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Thank you, Menü creation is fine :D

One small bug (others will follow :mrgreen: ), you should store x, y, w and h of designer in normalmode, not in maxmode (only the state).
If you have a maximized window and restores it, it is to large :wink:

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Re: Form Designer 5.00 beta 2.2

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Super impressive, the new designer is wonderful and simple to use.

I will test it deeply in the morning.
I found some problem in Menu , separators and sub-menu after re-opening the file.
I will try to replicate the bug and attach some example code.
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