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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: Can anyone make a "normal" windows screen design please? 0:-)
« on: June 15, 2010, 03:33:08 AM »
Looks good!
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I can't open a window with Mach3, unless I use Flash. But there is no Flash documentation, so no Flash screen.
I don't understand what "zero point" is? And Measurement point?
I'm not going to make a duplicate of that screen. I may not make exactly what you want. Rather than the picture, give me a list of al the features you use, and an explanation if needed.
I don't like the start button in the top, so it'll be down lower, and a bit larger.
What is the P (positions)?
Can you give me a clearer screenshot of the right side?
I didn't think of using icons for a lot of things. That frees up a lot of space.
This morning I started taking the first steps to creating a new screen, tentatively called "Mach XP".
I quickly remembered what the most difficult part of screen design is - Figuring out what goes where, and what's needed. The 50-100 hours I'll spend in Photoshop is the easy part.Oh... thats much time. I thought it would be easier. For me the windows buttons look like grey parts with white lines and black shadow... i thought it would be possible to use a freeware button generator to make the button bitmaps.
Since it'll look like a Windows screen, there won't be big colorful buttons, so lots more stuff will fit on the screen.
This may take 6 months or more to finish, so don't count on it any time soon. I've got a lot of stuff to get done this summer, so I can start building a new router in the fall. Smiley
Suggestions open. Tell me what controls you need to have.
Why not try the screen designers available for this very reason?
Those are very nice (FREE!!!) gifts from the makers that took a lot of time to create them and worth trying
Sure, it would be possible, but might take a lot of time.
Mach3 doesn't use standard windows controls, so to make it look like a Windows program would be difficult.