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How do applications written in PB look on Windows 8?
Do they look modern and fit in or do they look "old-school"?

Strange question... I'd say they look modern.

USCode wrote:How do PB applications look on Windows 8?
Do they look modern and fit in or do they look "old-school"?

if you remember what old 16-bit QuickBASIC and most early Window's application's screens
looked like, then Windows 8 sort of looks like a "Modern Old-School look"

back then you wanted or strongly desired to create Applications
that looked like the future Win-XP, Vista, and Windows 7 , with all the nice 3D + shadows + Color gradients
on most User Interface or Gadgets or Controls.

working with earlier Windows versions , i use to envy the better User Interfaces that Apple/MAC screens had

but now with Windows 8 , its like MicroSoft went backwards in time
and created a new Modernized "Old School Look" UI ,
and all the progress made thru the previous Windows versions went down the drain as far as Looks are concerned .

i think the worst Windows 8 "Look" are the ScrollBars
most times theres not enough Color contrast to easily determine where ScrollBar position is actually at

USCode wrote:How do PB applications look on Windows 8?
Do they look modern and fit in or do they look "old-school"?

Hopefully, my applications will look and perform exactly the same, no matter which OS. Even the Amiga had in crude form everything that I really need but support for five simultaneous controllers, and network communications commands available from BASIC. So yes they'll definitely look old school.. 1990s style. Good stuff.

You don't need to worry.

I bought a new laptop in 12/2012 which came with Windows 8 (updated to 8.1 last week).
Generally speaking, I'm NOT happy with Windows 8, but the manufacturer does not provide Windows 7 drivers for all the hardware included and Linux unfortunately has some quirks with my hardware as well. So I'm bound to W8 (for the moment, I hope).

Regarding PB (and other programs, programming languages, toolkits, ...):
All programs look and behave "normal". You really have to make a difference between those "apps" which run in full screen mode and use this strange "modern UI", which is - in my opinion - slow and ugly AND normal programs, like PB-IDE, explorer, Firefox, Chrome, .... They work and look as ever.

edit: corrected typos.
edit2: corrected another typo. Date now is not in the future.

bembulak wrote: I bought a new laptop in 12/2013 (...)

[OT]
Where have you bought your time machine. Can I borrow it yesterday?

Just kidding.

NicknameFJ

Where have you bought your time machine. Can I borrow it yesterday?

I already have sent it tomorrow!

c4s wrote:Strange question... I'd say they look modern.

I meant applications developed with PB, not the PB development environment itself.
(Of course the PB development environment was written in PB)

My first impression was, it looks modern, because all the controls (checkboxes, gadgets) are in new style.

USCode wrote:How do applications written in PB look on Windows 8?

Hello USCode. Here are some screenshots of PureBasic, and the Gadgets example app, running on Windows 8:









I believe that a picture is worth... you know!

Windows 8 looks so cheap and nasty to me. Aero Glass is so much better.

PB wrote:Windows 8 looks so cheap and nasty to me. Aero Glass is so much better.

Wow.
Looks like a collage of stolen designs.
Those monochrome icons are way stupid.
A magnifying glass for Search? That's OK. (I'm sure eyeglasses, telescope, microscope were considered)
A modified UBUNTU logo for Share? OK but they could do better.
Start uses the latest Windows swastika? OK. Whatever.
WTF for devices....? Seriously WTF is that? Two links of a chain??? An open vault door??
A cog for settings? I'd prefer to see a wrench, screwdriver, or some other tool.

Oh I get it now the devices logo is a hinge!
Now that's some innovative thinking, I have to give it to them.
But still being the great Microsoft Corporation, I think they should have done a better job with the graphics.
If it were not for the associated text, I'd be clueless.
And to think that's the flagship product...

Windows XP is getting pretty darned old, and I still never got that free upgrade to Windows 7 for suffering through Vista.
I'm thinking that thousands are in the same predicament.


http://design.ubuntu.com/brand/ubuntu-logo

My programs look like a million dollar on 8 NP