Post your GUIs

[PaulB]

Let's face it, a lot of applications which have been written in VB have poorly designed GUIs.

To offer inspiration, post your best GUI designs in here.

Here's one of mine... from an indevelopment project which allows my IT department to mangage all the computers in our company from one console.

http://www.v12digital.com/screenshots/j-task02.jpg

http://www.v12digital.com/screenshots/jtaskbeta.jpg

[nkad]

wow... thats pretty slick. gj!

[DKasler]

Let's face it, a lot of applications which have been written in VB have poorly designed GUIs.

To offer inspiration, post your best GUI designs in here.

Here's one of mine... from an indevelopment project which allows my IT department to mangage all the computers in our company from one console.

http://www.v12digital.com/screenshots/j-task02.jpg

http://www.v12digital.com/screenshots/jtaskbeta.jpg

To quote Peter Griffen... "Holy Crap". Thats incredible.

[techgnome]

CRAP! Now I feel the urge to toss out the app I've been working on and give something else a shot.

What components did you use for those?

Tg

[DKasler]

CRAP! Now I feel the urge to toss out the app I've been working on and give something else a shot.

What components did you use for those?

Tg

That makes 2 of us. I feel my inferiority complex growing. lol

[RobDog888]

VERY VERY nice professionally looking GUI. This would be something that
could compete with any M$ app. This is also something that I thought would
be a good VBF Contest idea - A purely GUI design competition.

I too would like to know where you got the controls or did you make them
yourself?

[PaulB]

The GUI is made by looping through an array and blitting sprites based on what is in the array into a picture box. It redraws in real-time as you scroll and collapse/expand sections. I worked out an algorithm so that it scrolls smoothly and it only draws the area which is being displayed to further increase its efficiency. I've also made grid controls using similar methods. My first grid control had many more features than the MSFlexGrid, and it was much faster to add items to it. I've also produced a progress bar which is over five times faster at redrawing than the standard bar included with VB, yet my progress bar draws with a 24bit colour gradient and a translucent inner shadow. See here, here and here.

Here is my latest project... please be aware that it is still in development... so it will look better by the time its done.

This is an appointment screen. Again its just a picture box with blitted sprites. Using MouseMove event I can see which array element the use is dragging, update the array and redraw the display. This means that the user can drag these appointments around the screen as if they are objects. They can also resize then my dragging either the top or bottom of an appointment. It runs silky smooth on a low spec. PC. (600MHz P3, NeoMagic graphics chip).

Click here to see it

and this is another screen from the same program.

[PaulB]

VERY VERY nice professionally looking GUI. This would be something that
could compete with any M$ app. This is also something that I thought would
be a good VBF Contest idea - A purely GUI design competition.

I too would like to know where you got the controls or did you make them
yourself?

Thanks. I created the components myself. As for M$ apps... I get my inspiration from Mac OS X mainly because I got a Mac about a year ago, and I've learned a lot from the way they do things.