Re: Tk::FunkyButton ?

--- Dean Arnold <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ala Qumsieh wrote:

> > Then you're missing on a lot :)
> 
> And yet I manage to get things done fairly quickly.

This is quickly degenrating into a vi-vs-Emacs style
argument :)

> > Oval and image-based buttons are very different
> from
> > what you mention here. An oval button does not add
> > anything to a GUI that a normal button doesn't
> already
> > have. It could even be more distracting, taking
> the
> > user's attention away from the task at hand.
> 
> ...or "attracting", if the users are accustomed to
> chrome.
> My sense (based on user feedback over the past
> couple of years)
> is that when users see the 1991 look/feel of pTk (or
> even early
> Java Swing, or any other GUI w/ the original X
> windows look/feel),
> they assume the underlying app is also circa 1991,
> and then tend to
> shy away. OTOH, take a pre-1991 app (e.g., vi ?),
> throw a aqua GUI around
> it, and they'll line up to use it. I don't agree
> with the mindset,
> but its the reality I've been confronted with.

Good point. As a GUI developer, you have to cater to
the needs of multiple users, which can be dramatically
different.

Btw, I also don't like the old look of Tk on *nix
systems. I find that playing with optionAdd can have a
dramatic change on the feel of the GUI. Of course, my
main audience are a few of my co-workers, and I can
always ignore any requests that I deem unhealthy :)

You probably don't have this luxury.

> > 
> >>And, I'll add, after rendering some of the
> >>gradients, they do
> >>look rather sexy...;^)
> > 
> > 
> > care to share a snapshot? :)
> > 
> 
> Sure. http://www.presicient.com/dtfgrad.png

This does look nice. By the way, have you looked at
Tk::Zinc? It has native openGL support (as long as
your video card supports it, which is a given these
days), and thus will have very negligible overhead
rendering the surfaces. It also supports more gradient
fills.

--Ala



		
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