These win95 style buttons must go
by Devon Ly · in Torque Game Engine · 11/08/2003 (4:23 am) · 13 replies
Is it just me or is anyone else finding that these window 95 style button in the torque editor are pretty ugly.
Sorry Jeff, Tim or whoever designed em but "They are!".
Anyway would any you nice people like to tell me the control source file that determine how these buttons are drawn so I may override it ;)
Much appreciated.
"DOWN WITH UGLY WIN95 GUI CONTROLS"
Sorry Jeff, Tim or whoever designed em but "They are!".
Anyway would any you nice people like to tell me the control source file that determine how these buttons are drawn so I may override it ;)
Much appreciated.
"DOWN WITH UGLY WIN95 GUI CONTROLS"
#2
11/08/2003 (6:53 am)
Lol.. they are ugly though ;) You could replace em with bitmapbuttons i suppose. But thats just adding overhead to the editor...
#3
11/08/2003 (10:17 am)
Those are rendered in the respective gui controls, like guiScrollCtrl, guiButtonCtrl, etc and there are also some predefined functions in dgl.cc that render a grey depressed square, etc. The way to go is to skin them though, and then make nicer buttons for everything, that's what I did.
#5
11/08/2003 (11:53 am)
Thats be sweet, having a theme sysstem built into 1.3!!1
#6
11/08/2003 (1:03 pm)
Not really, that would be bloat for most games. But having the non-skinnable controls be skinnable would be nice, since right now only some of them support bitmap arrays.
#11
I'm looking into making flat style button like the .net package allows and text only. But i'd be more for myself cause I "hate" these win95 buttons ;) If you can't already tell.
11/16/2003 (2:56 pm)
The only way I can think of is to physically draw out that text on a transparent back ground and save as png.I'm looking into making flat style button like the .net package allows and text only. But i'd be more for myself cause I "hate" these win95 buttons ;) If you can't already tell.
#12
in the gui bitmap buttons, how do you get rid of the borders? i bet i'll figure out soon enough, but just thought i might ask.
i hate the normal buttons too. i'm trying to figure out how to change the colors,...
11/16/2003 (3:56 pm)
Excuse me,in the gui bitmap buttons, how do you get rid of the borders? i bet i'll figure out soon enough, but just thought i might ask.
i hate the normal buttons too. i'm trying to figure out how to change the colors,...
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