You can check out my canvas based buttons, called “Gradient Buttons”. The link to my page is:
These are free and should work on Windows.
Simon.
[quote=390404:@Richard Duke]i was playing with the CenvasButton sample that come with Xojo for the last 10 mins.
It does not do the hovering. It only change color when i click on it.[/quote]
It does so if you remove the If clause in the MouseEnter Event handler:
Sub MouseEnter() Handles MouseEnter
mHighlight = True
Self.Refresh(False)
End Sub
i manage to incorporate the Action found on the Xojo Canvas Button with Julian’s Canvas button so that it can be clicked and yet have different color for hover.
new screenshot of the new toolbar and buttons using canvas with hovering
Before you handle the task of changing the visual component of the UI I would suggest looking at how you are organising and presenting options to the user. There are push buttons on the screen that appear to duplicate the icons in your toolbar. You also appear to have icons for options that are subsets of one another (sold stock is a subset of stock).
There is a lot of visual elements on the screen that may not need to be immediately presented to the user that you can remove. Also dont forget that you have menus you can use. Maybe a Stock menu would let you remove all of those buttons?
I suspect that part of the reason that people thought o& a Win 3.1 design when they looked at your initial screenshot is that it has every single option on the screen in a way that old Windows apps tended to have.
The toolbar can be remove by user. The user can also set what button to include. All these are table driven. The toolbar can also by a floating one or permenant on each screen.
We do have dropdown menu which is create base on what the user have access to eg. admin dropdown menu will appear for user with admin rights.
Perhaps also include the icon on the button as well (or provide as an option)
however your image link must reference a valid PNG/JPG at a valid location
[quote=390442:@dave duke]How do you post images in here?, just link from somewhere online?
Dave[/quote]
I use imgurs and copy the direct links after clicking my user name and select the 2nd option
regardless… the image link you specified is not valid… it points to a server, but not to an image
Here you go Dave
Well if that is the system you are forced into using then I suspect that there is not a lot other than the suggestions here already to improve the look. If the user wants to configure it to be a mess there is nothing you can do to stop them.
Which links r u referring to???
Do u mean having a toolbar is a bad idea in UI??
Julian, Is it old fashion to have Bold on for labels and buttons on UI?
I wouldn’t do that, no. Bold should only really be used to differentiate or highlight something, for example in a list where you can select multiple items and you want to show the selection, you could then bold the selected ones instead of using another column for a tick box. Or if you had a list where you had headings, you could use a bold entry as a divider for sections.
Thanks… i already remove the bold for everything unless is under certain thing like your suggestion
Looking at the design, there is just a lot of space to accommodate a handful of buttons. Just a thought here, what if you switch over to a Tree menu system on the left and content to the right. This should help the user with a focus of the task vs. where to click.
does it mean i only need one window and everything will be container control for the content on the right??