Found good set of icons

There i was looking for some good xp good looking icons (16x16) for my new windows applications im developing...i was looking for professional icons, cause this is gonna be a financial application with some market, so i thought paying for a good set of icons, royalty-free...

so...google it and look what i found... http://www.famfamfam.com/

and they are free... :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

Great link!

Here are two more awesome sites:
http://www.vbcorner.net/download_icons.htm
http://vbaccelerator.com/home/Resour...cons/index.asp (don't miss the link to the second page at the bottom)

http://www.vbcorner.net/download_icons.htm its a great link also...thanks...

Nice icons :thumb:

Nice Icons

Register any copy of VisualStudio Express for Free and you get access to some really nice, royalty free icons. Higher quality than what has been posted but it's kind of limited in what's available.

I don't suppose you get them with Visual Studio 2005 pro and I just haven't found them yet?

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Originally Posted by kasracer

Register any copy of VisualStudio Express for Free and you get access to some really nice, royalty free icons. Higher quality than what has been posted but it's kind of limited in what's available.

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I registered three VS Express products but it didn't let me get the royalty-free stuff :(

Thanks for your nice links!

This is a preview of the application im developing...with this cool set of icons...

i think it makes a good, atractive and professional look...

Looking good!

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Originally Posted by eyeRmonkey

I don't suppose you get them with Visual Studio 2005 pro and I just haven't found them yet?

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Nope. Gotta register.

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I registered three VS Express products but it didn't let me get the royalty-free stuff :(

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After you register, it signs you into a webpage that allows you to download icons and other components.

It wouldn't allow me to. Dunno, location, or age, or something.

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This is a preview of the application im developing...with this cool set of icons...

i think it makes a good, atractive and professional look...

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I'm curious where you found the larger images you were using like the large money image. I only saw small ones in the set from famfamfam.com.

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I'm curious where you found the larger images you were using like the large money image. I only saw small ones in the set from famfamfam.com.

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http://www.iconfactory.com/ i supose

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I'm curious where you found the larger images you were using like the large money image. I only saw small ones in the set from famfamfam.com.

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hummm....

im glad you mentioned it cause i think this icon is not royalty-free... so i made one myself...

still looking good...i think...

by the way...what do you think about this splash screen ???
comments please...

nice links, thanks all

@zuperman how did you get the sidebar? and are those standard toolbar/menubar/tab control? or are they 3rd party?

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nice links, thanks all

@zuperman how did you get the sidebar? and are those standard toolbar/menubar/tab control? or are they 3rd party?

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the explorer bar is from http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/NE...ar/article.asp, made some modifications ...

other are all standard winforms 2.0

If I'm not mistaken the menus, toolbars and tabs are standard .NET 2.0. The status bar is standard too but with the RenderMode changed to Professional or ManagerRenderMode and the BorderStyle of the labels set to Bump. The section on the left looks like the work of XP Common Controls. Correct?

Oops. Should have refreshed.

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The section on the left looks like the work of XP Common Controls. Correct?

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I guess not.

i try to avoid 3rd party controls...cause are very expensive and in most cases makes the application slow...winforms 2.0 controls are good looking...

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i try to avoid 3rd party controls...cause are very expensive and in most cases makes the application slow...winforms 2.0 controls are good looking...

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winforms 2? how do i get that? or is that the standard controls in the toolbox of .net? sorry for the dumb question, also, do the controls look that way on win2000? :D

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winforms 2? how do i get that? or is that the standard controls in the toolbox of .net? sorry for the dumb question, also, do the controls look that way on win2000? :D

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winforms 2.0 is part of the net framework 2.0 (VS 2005)...they have the color of the windows xp theme you adopt...in win 2000 they will have a classic look...like this:

waiting for some sugestions to the splash screen...thx in advance...

The splash screen looks great, bu you might want to fill up the white space on the right side though.

Other than thatI think you have an awesome looking program on your hands.

zuperman, on the Account Details window, at the bottom of the white section at the top of the page, there is a raised border where it switches from white to grey. What property did you set to get that? I can't seem to get the same effect on a form I am making.

A horizontal line? :)

I don't see any horizontal line control. :p I really can't find anything that will give me the effect I see in that screen shot. I know it is going to be really obvious when I figure it out though.

Seriously though. Why isn't their a BeveledLine control in the standard set of controls?

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I don't see any horizontal line control. :p I really can't find anything that will give me the effect I see in that screen shot. I know it is going to be really obvious when I figure it out though.

Seriously though. Why isn't their a BeveledLine control in the standard set of controls?

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all my input forms have that look...inherited from my own UI framework (see the images attached) ...the line its a simple group box with height=2 :)

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Originally Posted by eyeRmonkey

The splash screen looks great, bu you might want to fill up the white space on the right side though.

Other than thatI think you have an awesome looking program on your hands.

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the white space its for version, user and licence information, provided by the code of the application...not implemented yet :)

made some modifications :)

Looking good! :thumb: I wish I was that good at GUI design.

can anyone post some splash screen examples, please... thx in advance... i think mine could be better...

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Looking good! :thumb: I wish I was that good at GUI design.

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Photoshop rulez... :thumb:

So that beveled line right between the white space and the gray space is just a GroupBox?

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So that beveled line right between the white space and the gray space is just a GroupBox?

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yes... :bigyello:

and by the way, for good UI take a look at http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Standards/...dowsForms.aspx

That is an amazing link. Thanks a ton. I'll add that to my signature.

another Rules to Better ...
http://www.ssw.com.au/SSW/Standards/default.aspx
enjoy...:)

That line is obviously a GroupBox with the Height set to 2 because you can see on the far right end that the border for the right side is trying to be drawn (there's a little spot of grey on the white). I know this because I've previously used the same technique to get the same effect. The XPLine control in the XP Common Controls library draws a bevelled line like that without that issue. Also, you can simply use GDI+ to draw two lines, one grey and one white (or better ControlDark and Window), offset by one pixel. The fact that you can use GDI+ to get that effect and much more besides is the reason that there is no standard line control.