How to make such a GUI style?

[Roland Fischer]

Hello All,

is it possible to create such a GUI style (see pic, like Office 2003) with Powerbasic 9? perhaps you have a small tutorial for me.
Thanks for helping a newbie.

Greetings
Roland

[Chris Holbrook]

Suggest you search these forums for "toolbar" and "icon"!

[Michael Mattias]

You are hereby awarded twelve (12) points for including a picture of what you want in lieu of trying to explain it using only the English language.

[Cliff Nichols]

And if you can't find anything, try Jose Roca (I think he or someone has something similar at http://www.jose.it-berater.org/smfforum/index.php

Although from instinct of cobwebs in my mind, you may need to search for the word "OWNER DRAWN" and toolbars, because of "The programmers "GUT-FEELING" and nothing else (I could be wrong..but I could be right)

Hey MCM...where is the scoreboard, and how far in the hole am I with CNDS?
(love a good razz from time to time )

[Kev Peel]

It's a custom control with the movable "bands" and floating palettes. Short of writing the whole thing yourself (believe me, it's not trivial), it would be easier to track down a third-party library that offers this kind of control in a DLL.

OCX controls are not natively supported, I believe, as PB does not have the required "container" support unless you use a third party library to supply the container.

[Dave Biggs]

You might want to try earching for 'Rebar'. Here are a couple of starters..

Rebar Sample(SDK): Ralph Berger

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/downloads/files/Rebar.zip

DDT Rebar sample José Roca:

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showthread.php?t=23583

[Kev Peel]

Jules' code is a start for docking toolbars if you have the time to re-write this control:

http://www.powerbasic.com/files/pub/pbwin/controls/Dock-It.zip

PS. There is one small compatibility issue: to fix, simply place a BYVAL on line 1047.

[Chris Boss]

If I remember correctly, what you are refering to is called "Ribbons" which is supposedly a new GUI style used by Microsoft (not 100% sure).

Either way, it is likely a custom control created by Microsoft for use in their own software and not a built in control in Windows.

You could emulate the look of such a control by doing the following:

(1) Create a Rebar control
(2) add multiple Toolbars as bands to the Rebar control
(3) subclass each toolbar (or put toolbar on a container window and draw its background)
(4) draw a 3D gradient for each toolbar in the WM_ERASEBKGND message for it (or its container window).

Example image attached to this post:

[Francisco Castanedo]

Hi Roland, if I understood your inquiry, I think you are asking how to have that kind of theme in your dialogs and controls.

I´m about to tackle that so as to give my application a fresh and unique look.
I searched the forums for the word THEME in the title of the post and found very little information, although valuable.
I suggest you do that.

And if either you or I find something useful I suggest we post it right here.

Regards

[Francisco Castanedo]

Ok, here are good starting points:

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showthread.php?t=37768&highlight=Theme

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showthread.php?t=21419&highlight=Theme

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/winsdk/xptheme.aspx

http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/howto-13.html

http://delphi.about.com/od/toppicks/tp/aatpxpthemes.htm