But now, now is seven years later and that is in programmer's years, which is 49 normal years. Or something like that. And those years are showing, trust me if I tell you.
So there came a time to rewrite the damn thing from scratch. I'm a great fan of Office 2007 GUI and I like to have my internals modularized and organised (OK, not really my internals ...) so the new version will have a nice clean look and even nicer and cleaner source code.
Just for teaser, here is the old interface:
and here's the new one:
What components you used to create the new version? It really fantastic!
ReplyDelete(Sorry for late reply - I failed to notice the comment when it was originally posted.)
ReplyDeleteBasically, it is just a bunch of panels, TSpeedButtons and hand-painted gradients.
I tried three or four different approaches and this one was the most flexible.