Standalone produces odd looking buttons

reelstuff · Post by **reelstuff** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:48 pm

Hello, everyone, I built a standalone which looks good in MAC OSX, but in the windows version, the buttons and fields look a little strange,

http://www.memberzen.com/windows.jpg

copy and paste the Url as it will not load from this forum.

you can see what I mean by looking at the pic

I was wondering if there was a way to correct this, I cant see trying to set props on every single button and field, but I tried several different settings and nothing seems to help it look any better.

Any suggestions on settings in the standalone or props would be super.

thanks

Tim

gyroscope · Post by **gyroscope** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:16 pm

Hi Tim

As you know, I'm sure, by checking Look and Feel> Windows emulated, that's the way they translate.

I'm pretty much certain that the only way to get consistency across platforms is to create your own custom buttons and fields... (I'm sure I'll be corrected by a more experienced Revver if I'm wrong here...

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reelstuff · Post by **reelstuff** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:23 pm

gyroscope wrote:Hi Tim

As you know, I'm sure, by checking Look and Feel> Windows emulated, that's the way they translate.

I'm pretty much certain that the only way to get consistency across platforms is to create your own custom buttons and fields... (I'm sure I'll be corrected by a more experienced Revver if I'm wrong here... )

That is what it looks like right now, I am building from MAC OSX, I wonder if building from a Windows install, would make a difference?

Just looking for a better way to manage the GUI, because the way it looks now is not very good, I think I would get complaints and well as confusion about navigation.

thanks for the post.

BvG · Post by **BvG** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:04 am

On windows it should look like a native windows application. Unless you did set it to use the emulated windows look, which is hideous and horribly 3.11 looking.

reelstuff · Post by **reelstuff** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:39 am

BvG wrote:On windows it should look like a native windows application. Unless you did set it to use the emulated windows look, which is hideous and horribly 3.11 looking.

Yes that is what I thought, I must have set something wrong, I will have to take a look around to see what I did wrong.

Tim

reelstuff · Post by **reelstuff** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:31 am

Found it,

I had selected a background colour to better tie in with graphics and so that both applications, looked a little more alike.

apparently, you cant do that,

So presently, the buttons look better but with a grey background.

anyone have any ideas about how to get a white background in the windows app