Friday, June 5th, 2009
Finally I have gotten far enough that I can actually take a couple of screen snapshots and show something happening. Here we have three pages in a tabbed setup docked on the left side of form. The mouse is hovering over the pin that is used to switch to the auto hidden mode…
When pressed you get the expected group on the left edge of the form.
Move the mouse over the auto hidden tab and after a short delay it will slide out so it overlaps the client area. It operates like the Visual Studio environment where moving the mouse away from the area causes it to slide back again.
Now onto floating pages and the ability to restore back to where they came from.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Looking quite nice, but something is looking odd. Don’t know what … maybe the lack of other controls on the form or the Vista non-client area (thick border on the left and bottom)… don’t know.
Also the space between the docked page (Page 1) and the docked pane (Title for Page 1) is a little to big.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Good Work!…Keep Walking!
June 5th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Can you make a small Video to see it in action ?
June 10th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
jkr: I’ve update the header padding and the tabs padding as well as they were a couple of pixels out and that improves the look alot.
zup: No video but I will certainly post addtional screenshots as I hit milestones that might be of interest.
June 10th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Great! Can’t wait to see more progress and of course the final result.
June 24th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
May I suggest you to provide “Auto-Resize” control which will resize winform and all its controls and fonts according to screen resolution. I.e by this way I am assured that my product is resolution independent.
You may also do this at kryption form level so that when a forms is inhereted from kripton form all it’s controls will automatically becoms resolution independent.
Hitesh
June 24th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Hi,
May I also suggest you to provide inbuilt feature in ALL Tooklit controls which will HIGHLIGHT the boarders of currently active control in different color when focus is received. This will help user to get immediate feedback at a glance about the current active control. This will also improve visual appearance. I am sure this will be a value addtion to a product!
Hitesh