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PrincieD wrote:If anyone is thinking of purchasing, you might want to do it now as the price will be going up slightly when Major Update 1 is released (you've probably got about a week and a half, maybe less though), thanks!

Ouch, oh well, price increases are inevitable.

X wrote:Yeah, i found google checkout to be too buggy, I figure it is still in alpha or beta stage.

Yes the same here mate, It appears somehow unfinished; and when it takes 2 weeks to get access to your hard earned money, well.. it's just no good - Every ProGUI sale counts for me and PayPal (with their debit card) allows me to buy food, ciggies (lol) when I need the money straight away! (like having a second bank account)

Chris.

Kuron wrote:Ouch, oh well, price increases are inevitable.

I know I know I don't relish doing it but it's a necessity, the amount of work that's gone into it has to be financially viable. The price increase will only be about 5 euros though

Scratched off the list for Santa for now, but no biggie in the overall scheme of things.

Kuron wrote:Scratched off the list for Santa for now, but no biggie in the overall scheme of things.

Heheh wait till you see the new update! I don't do things by half

Wow Chris, knowing exactly what it takes to develop custom controls, I can honestly say that this is a colossal piece of work now; absolutely awesome. The documentation looks great as well.

Reckon I'll probably wade in at some point and make a purchase.

Thank you very much Stephen!

Hey PrincieD, did i read right, you have a Direct2D wrapper for PB? Would you consider sharing or selling this? I would be very interested as i am working on something that uses a lot of 2D manipulation, rotating images in realtime, etc. I don't want to support XP anymore and DX10 is faster and more versatile from what i have read so this wrapper would be ideal. Thanks.

AndyMK wrote:Hey PrincieD, did i read right, you have a Direct2D wrapper for PB? Would you consider sharing or selling this? I would be very interested as i am working on something that uses a lot of 2D manipulation, rotating images in realtime, etc. I don't want to support XP anymore and DX10 is faster and more versatile from what i have read so this wrapper would be ideal. Thanks.

Hi Andy, yep thats right (although it's prototype code at the moment). The Direct2D API will become a subset of ProGUI (in simplified fashion), this is so that GDI,GDI+,Direct2D/DirectX can be automatically used depending on what the host operating system can support (and this makes it easy to swap/add other platform drawing API's to ProGUI too in the future).

Chris.

PrincieD wrote:

AndyMK wrote:Hey PrincieD, did i read right, you have a Direct2D wrapper for PB? Would you consider sharing or selling this? I would be very interested as i am working on something that uses a lot of 2D manipulation, rotating images in realtime, etc. I don't want to support XP anymore and DX10 is faster and more versatile from what i have read so this wrapper would be ideal. Thanks.

Hi Andy, yep thats right (although it's prototype code at the moment). The Direct2D API will become a subset of ProGUI (in simplified fashion), this is so that GDI,GDI+,Direct2D/DirectX can be automatically used depending on what the host operating system can support (and this makes it easy to swap/add other platform drawing API's to ProGUI too in the future).

Chris.

Chris, any chance i could use your Direct2D code?

AndyMK wrote:Chris, any chance i could use your Direct2D code?

Yea sure, priv msg me your email and I'll send you what I have so far. Bare in mind my prototype code is more of a proof of concept and is just a very basic wrapper at the moment but the skeleton is there and working, you'll need visual C++ as well to compile the lib.

Chris.

Hey guys not long now (any day), here's some screens of the new ExplorerBar control with smooth 60fps group collapsing animation with alpha fade.

default system skin under Windows 7:


default system skin under Windows XP:


Office 2007 skin:


Apologies for the delay, I'm not very good at estimating how long stuff is going to take to code lol

Less apologizing, more coding

Zach wrote:Less apologizing, more coding

hehehe ok, will do

This may have been answered already. But does this next version (or down the roadmap), include the ability to use these controls (As well as skin them) onto a directx product? For example, If we go by the Sprite3d example (not any of the 3d engine/ogre stuff), would we be able to render these onto something like that?