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Michael F. S. Christensen · Guest

Hi all,

Does anybody have a clue regarding how to make a GUI with the same
overall features as the Picasa Photo Organizer has (the google image
organizer application, see [url]http://www.google.com/options/index.html)[/url].

I find the Picasa GUI really neat and easily accessible, heck it's
almost too intuitive, and I would therefore like to be able to make
use of the same "effects" as they do. I do not wish to make a rip-off
GUI, just to be able to make use of the same effects/techniques as
they do in my own applications.

For instance:
- Rounded buttons with gradient background, and anti-aliased text. Is
there a best practice for this?
- Alpha animated roll-over, roll-off on certain components such as
buttons, panels, etc.
- Animated buttons indicating suggested action (Picasa does this when
you view an image, the button "back to album" has a suggestive
animation on it).

I think they accomplished the effects by some clever DirectX / GDI++
programming? Do you have a clue?

Oh by the way: I use cppbuilder 5 professional (and occasionally
cppbuilder 6).

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Best regards
Michael, Denmark