[DUG] Graphical User Interface Design

[Nick]

Yeap I agree the TAdvGlowButton is quite nice and I have been using that.
Thanks for all the sites, im sure my boss will enjoy getting his credit 
card out ;-)

Jason Coley wrote:
> If you have the TMS components, the TAdvGlowButton is very nice and can
> be modified to look almost any way.
>
> Jason
>
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> On Behalf Of Nick
> Sent: Friday, 29 June 2007 10:41 a.m.
> To: Jason
> Subject: Re: [DUG] Graphical User Interface Design
>
> Sean,
>
> Got a place where said buttons can be purchased from? :-)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sean Cross wrote:
>   
>> Step 1:  Get high quality bitmaps for your buttons etc.  Don't use old
>>     
> or nasty images.
>   
>> Step 2:  Big buttons with big images AND text.  Le the users remove
>>     
> the text once they are experienced.
>   
>> Step 3:  Profit
>>
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-
>>> bounces at delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Nick
>>> Sent: Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:07 a.m.
>>> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
>>> Subject: [DUG] Graphical User Interface Design
>>>
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> Just about to update one of our main apps and thinking about just
>>> rebuilding it from the ground up, especially the gui side of it. The
>>> original one wasn't to bad, but looking at other programs there is
>>>       
> some
>   
>>> very nice looking applications out there. Now I have the TMS
>>>       
> component
>   
>>> set and there are some very nice graphical components in there - but
>>>       
> I
>   
>>> don't want the program to be overwhelming (picture someone that finds
>>> the transitions in a slide show app for the first time!) but also
>>>       
> don't
>   
>>> want it to look like something from windows 3.1
>>>
>>> End of the day it comes down to the usability for the user and making
>>> everything as easy and logical for them to use, but also want it to
>>> look
>>> appealing.
>>>
>>> So what steps, guidelines, approach do you take when designing an
>>> application.
>>>
>>> :-)
>>> Cheers
>>> Nick
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