Hey Dave - regarding this older posting of yours. I'm curious to know if you

have made more progress on implementing Metro style interfaces in VFP -

since, we (at my day job) - have this App that we are looking to run on a

Tablet - and I MUST give it a proper Overhaul ASAP!

Thanks in Advance!

-K-

Posted:

2012.11.13 at 05:58:33

To All,

I was just playing around with VFP last night after having developed my

first metro app in Visual

Studio last week and wondered how a Metro style interface could be

developed in VFP. A small video

of the results of my deliberations is at:

http://www.replacement-software.co.uk/VFP_Metro/

I haven't had time to add callouts and commentry etc just yet as the whole

project took up my time

(about 4 hours) but I will do once the classes are in a stable state at

which time I hope to have a

set of classes made that will allow Metro buttons and info to be easily put

into any VFP App simply

by dragging and dropping a Metro surface onto a form and polpulating it with

Geoups and Items

...(you can see this in the video).

The result so far are:

1. A scrollable Metro "desktop" so that you can hold more buttons than can

ve viewed on the desktop

2. Metro style buttons that can have the caption in either the centre or the

four corners of the

button as well as a relocatable picture on the button.

3. Metro Groups. Consisting of selections of metro buttons that can be

dragged and dropped within

the allocated group and re-ordered into a pre-defined column/row Metro

sequence.

4. The ability to drag/drop the Metro Groups around on the desktop

5. The ability to drag/drop Metro buttons around within their parent group

in real time ... and

then re-order the group

The next step is to give the Metro interface a "skinnable colour" property

that will be changeable

in real time ... this is done but I haven't had time to incorporate it as of

yet.

If anyone shows any interest in the video or the development then post on

here with regards to

possible enhancements etc. and comments will be gratefully accepted, good or

bad.

When I have a set of classes in workable form then I intend to post the

source on Codeplex with full

source.

The fox can still run with the best...

Have fun,

Dave

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