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Old June 3rd, 2005, 03:58 AM
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Hi,

I've been writting in VB for a while now. I need to design an application now and I've found a problem which I never thought about before. I want to create a farily complex Graphical User Interface but the elements in Microsoft Form 2.0 are quite limited.

Any ideas how to create nice looking user interfaces using VB?

Thanks!!!

 
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Why are you limited to MS Form 2? VB is (was) maybe the best program to design GUI (in fact, I was using it only for that)
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It is very practical but it doesn't do nice things (silly example: round buttons).

 
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No standard VB control makes round button.
VB is a nice language, and it comes with a wide set of controls that are very powerful and flexible, but sure they were not designed to be 'pretty'. one choice is to buy a good third party set of controls (they are pricy). but using VB you can build all the controls you want (in the form of UserControl) An even more complex solution is to 'subclass' the standard controls and override the WM_PAINT event, to change their apparrence (tedious work to do, and VB is not the language for it, I'd very much prefer building my own controls)
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