[alpha] Interface Designer - Printable Version

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[alpha] Interface Designer by effection on 12-20-2007 at 09:41 PM

Well heres my most recent project Its in the alpha stages, all the controls will work but they have limited properties at the minute.

Things that need added:
Open an XML interface.
Create a new form.
Everything to do with colours.
Everything to do with borders and images for controls.
A custom property window which oonly allows editing of propertys used with the XML schema.
A help file possibley

In a week or so i will make this open source as i have no intention of continuing to code it that much :^)

Enjoy

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RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by CookieRevised on 12-20-2007 at 09:50 PM

Cool,

But this has a very big dejavu feeling... IIRC such a project was already made by somebody else I think (also not finished, etc).

RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by effection on 12-20-2007 at 09:52 PM

yes as far as i know one was previously made but lacked the ability to move controls etc in the version, and this one will also be open source asap

RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by CookieRevised on 12-20-2007 at 10:03 PM

(y) looking forward to it to take a peek-a-boo behind the scenes...

RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by Spunky on 12-20-2007 at 10:14 PM

If this works as well as I hope, I'm gonna fall in love with it... I'm currently re-using windows as I can't be bothered to design from scratch and this will greatly speed it up

RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by vikke on 12-20-2007 at 10:22 PM

Looks nice, crashed when I saved though.

You're writing .NET-code so anyone can see the source-code whenever they want. I am very much against .NET, but this looks nice! (Y)

RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by Spunky on 12-20-2007 at 10:25 PM

quote:
Originally posted by vikke
Looks nice, crashed when I saved though.

Mine saved once, but crashed second time I ran it. Can't open yet either ¬_¬ lol

RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by Matti on 12-21-2007 at 09:58 AM

quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
But this has a very big dejavu feeling... IIRC such a project was already made by somebody else I think (also not finished, etc).

Yup. Dempsey was working on Window Designer. But he never finished it.

I'm going to try this out immediately, it looks very promising!

UPDATE:
Now, that looks great, mate! I'm quite surprised by the fact that you really managed to transform Windows Forms into XML! (y)

Although there's still a lot of work to do, I hope you can continue working on this because it is awesome!

My personal list of bugs and to-dos:

While typing in the properties panel, the Delete shortcut remains active. That means that if you try to press Delete to remove the next character in a text property field, you actually delete your control.

I love this program, however I doubt I'll use it for daily scripting use yet. Keep on developing this program, I'm sure that if you keep improving this, it may become a must-have for the whole community!

UPDATE 2:
Oh, you're planning to release the source... oh well, I hope another developer can pick this up, because I love it!

RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by mynetx on 12-21-2007 at 10:13 AM

Dempsey seems to have been working on many things. But he never finished them.

RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by riahc4 on 12-21-2007 at 10:37 AM

This was requested a while back (a script that is accually a skin maker) and alot of people thought it would be difficult. Seems that it is possible....

Although this looks like a skin maker for Plus! windows, not Messenger itself.

Good job.

RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by NanaFreak on 12-21-2007 at 11:32 AM

quote:
Originally posted by riahc4
Although this looks like a skin maker for Plus! windows, not Messenger itself.

yes, that is what it is...

good job on making it! looking nice... but i still like to code my own from scratch

RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by CookieRevised on 12-21-2007 at 01:46 PM

It's a script interface window editor, nothing todo with skinning...

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EDIT:

quote:
Originally posted by markee
hence it being in the scripting area of the forums

I know, but:

quote:
Originally posted by NanaFreak

quote:
Originally posted by riahc4
This was requested a while back (a script that is accually a skin maker) and alot of people thought it would be difficult. Seems that it is possible....

Although this looks like a skin maker for Plus! windows, not Messenger itself.
yes, that is what it is..

...It isn't a skin maker at all, has got nothing todo with skinning...

RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by markee on 12-21-2007 at 01:54 PM

quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
It's a script interface window editor, nothing todo with skinning...

hence it being in the scripting area of the forums |-)

Anyway, it is really nice to see this work, it looks very much like a microsoft product to do this kind of stuff so at least people should be familiary with the layout of everything. This will be extremely helpful for us novices.

RE: RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by effection on 12-21-2007 at 05:28 PM

thanks everyone for the feedback and il take all suggestions into account.

quote:
Originally posted by vikke
Looks nice, crashed when I saved though.

You're writing .NET-code so anyone can see the source-code whenever they want. I am very much against .NET, but this looks nice!

Can you tell me what controls you had on the form? quite possibley something to do with that as i only did a quick test with each control

RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by NanaFreak on 12-22-2007 at 12:37 AM

quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised

quote:
Originally posted by NanaFreak

quote:
Originally posted by riahc4
This was requested a while back (a script that is accually a skin maker) and alot of people thought it would be difficult. Seems that it is possible....

Although this looks like a skin maker for Plus! windows, not Messenger itself.
yes, that is what it is..
...It isn't a skin maker at all, has got nothing todo with skinning...

woops, i miss read that, i thought he said window maker for plus scripts or something, sorry, im on holidays =\

RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by vikke on 12-22-2007 at 12:44 AM

The crash occurs when saving a window with a PictureBox-control.

RE: [alpha] Interface Designer by effection on 12-22-2007 at 08:59 PM

thankyou il have a quick look into it