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filip
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 6:49 am    Post subject: Mac Style Background Reply with quote
Hi. Guys

i like to create a Mac Style Background for my About Window

DIALOG ADD,GRADIENT,GRADIENT1,0,0,380,1,white,white
DIALOG ADD,GRADIENT,GRADIENT2,1,0,380,1,$00BCBCBC,$00BCBCBC
DIALOG ADD,GRADIENT,GRADIENT3,2,0,380,1,white,white
DIALOG ADD,GRADIENT,GRADIENT4,3,0,380,1,$00BCBCBC,$00BCBCBC
DIALOG ADD,GRADIENT,GRADIENT5,4,0,380,1,white,white
DIALOG ADD,GRADIENT,GRADIENT6,5,0,380,1,$00BCBCBC,$00BCBCBC
DIALOG ADD,GRADIENT,GRADIENT7,6,0,380,1,white,white
DIALOG ADD,GRADIENT,GRADIENT8,7,0,380,1,$00BCBCBC,$00BCBCBC
DIALOG ADD,GRADIENT,GRADIENT9,8,0,380,1,white,white
DIALOG ADD,GRADIENT,GRADIENT10,9,0,380,1,$00BCBCBC,$00BCBCBC


The full code is much longer then this

Can be this done with shorter code

Thanks
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 10:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can make a repeat-until loop to create the lines. Please note that with the example below, I don't use the DIALOG SHOW commando until all lines are drawn, because VDS draws dialog elements fast if it isn't showing the dialog itself... Smile

Code:
  DIALOG CREATE,About,-1,0,380,200

rem Put the maximum height for the background in a variable for easy usage
%%GradientHeight = 200
  rem Make the background one big white gradient, so you don't have to use
  rem 100 seperate ones.
  DIALOG ADD,GRADIENT,GRADIENT1,0,0,380,%%GradientHeight,white,white

%%GradientCounter = 1
repeat
  rem Display a grey line
  DIALOG ADD,GRADIENT,GRADIENT@succ(%%GradientCounter),%%GradientCounter,0,380,1,$00BCBCBC,$00BCBCBC
  rem And add the number 2 to the %%GradiantCounter variable, so it skips the white lines
  %%GradientCounter = @fadd(%%GradientCounter,2)
until @greater(%%GradientCounter,%%GradientHeight)
  rem And finally, show the dialog
  DIALOG SHOW


:Evloop
wait event
goto @event()

:Close
exit


Btw. next time when you want to show us your VDS code, you put it between the [ vds ] bbcode tags so it gets the nice layout... Smile
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Please post in the VDS 4 Source Code section if you have full working code.

This post is better suited in General Help.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 4:45 pm    Post subject: Thanks Gays Reply with quote
Thanks guys

But i wont use this code is not 100% stable when i move window

There is 3 ways using Mac Style background:

Yours
or
With multi lines of Gradient
or
With Bitmap pic

I was runing MacOS x on my PC with PearPC.
Very funny OS and the most Complete LINUX/UNIX OS i have ever try.

BYE for now...
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:37 pm    Post subject: Monitor test utility Reply with quote
The code from Skit3000

this can be use to build a fine monitor test util

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ummm, why are you using a GRADIENT element? I would have suggested
using the SHAPE element instead.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 1:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I recently tried to get a look like the new Mac interface. (iTunes, etc.) I used a bitmap for the "brushed aluminum" look. I'll attach a zipped sample. I also have a larger "piece" that is 800x600 pixels. If anyone needs it, let me know.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Garrett wrote:
Ummm, why are you using a GRADIENT element? I would have suggested
using the SHAPE element instead.

-Garrett



Also I would not have used @fadd. There is more overhead using a floating point addition than to just use @sum. That is if speed is what you are looking for? Here is an example of what me and Garrett is talking about.

Code:
  DIALOG CREATE,About,-1,0,380,200

  rem Put the maximum height for the background in a variable for easy usage
  %%GradientHeight = @DLGPOS(,H)
  rem Make the background one big white gradient, so you don't have to use
  rem 100 seperate ones.
 
  DIALOG ADD,SHAPE,SHAPE1,0,0,380,%%GradientHeight,white,white,,INVISIBLE
  REM DIALOG ADD,LINE,LINE
  %%GradientCounter = 2
  repeat
    rem Display a grey line
    REM DIALOG ADD,GRADIENT,GRADIENT@succ(%%GradientCounter),%%GradientCounter,0,380,1,$00BCBCBC,$00BCBCBC
    DIALOG ADD,SHAPE,SHAPE%%GradientCounter,%%GradientCounter,0,380,1,$00BCBCBC,$00BCBCBC,,INVISIBLE
    rem And add the number 2 to the %%GradiantCounter variable, so it skips the white lines
    %%GradientCounter = @succ(@succ(%%GradientCounter))
  until @greater(%%GradientCounter,%%GradientHeight)
  DIALOG Add,TEXT,TEXT1,10,10,,,This is a really good test.@cr()And so is this line.@cr()Now another line.
  rem And finally, show the dialog
  DIALOG SHOW


:Evloop
  wait event
  goto @event()

:Close
  exit

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I meant to use the SHAPE in the loop. He was using gradients only with
a single color in the loop. The first gradient was fine, as it gave the effect
I believe he was looking for.
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