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How are you designing your screen layout?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 02:53 PM

Hi folks,

In the Harbour mg Extended world where I normally "live", I use a graphical IDE to select and place my controls (eg labels, textboxes, listboxes, bmps, etc) on a form whose size I can adjust as the design evolves.

How do you guys achieve the same process of placing and sizing controls on a fixed Pocket PC sized screen? Counting pixels or trial and error does not appeal to me any longer :cry:

Thanks,

Ross

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Re: How are you designing your screen layout?
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 01:26 PM

look visual fwh viewforum.php?f=5

Best Regards, Saludos



Falconi Silvio
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Re: How are you designing your screen layout?
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:12 AM

Thank you Silvio.

Is it mature yet? Can it really be used for FWPPC applications?

Thanks,

Ross

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Re: How are you designing your screen layout?
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 01:47 PM

Ross,

You can use any windows resources editor (Visual Studio, PellesC, etc.) to design your RC forms and have the coordinates and dimensions of your used controls.

regards, saludos

Antonio Linares
www.fivetechsoft.com
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Re: How are you designing your screen layout?
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 11:55 PM

Thanks Antonio.

If I understand you correctly, you are saying ... use any GUI IDE to prototype the layout and then transfer the numerical data of the size and positions of the controls to the code. I have already had a lot of success using the IDE available with the Harbour mg Extended package. So I think that I will use it because I am very familiar with its operation. Obviously, in the longer term, your Visual FW tool would be preferred. I look forward to that.

Best wishes,

Ross

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Re: How are you designing your screen layout?
Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 05:58 AM

Ross,

Right, thats the idea for now :-)

regards, saludos

Antonio Linares
www.fivetechsoft.com

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