Is it possible to draw border around a menu item in vb6?
I'm assuming you mean the menus at the top of the form, or popup-menus that appear when right-clicking.
It's not possible in pure VB6.
It might be possible with some complex API work to produce owner-draw menus. You could have a look at this or this... bring your hatchet.
Beyond what Mark has mentioned there is also the commercial menu controls from CodeJock. I am using them in a project and they are pretty fantastic.
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I'm just wondering how to implement Safari-like tab view? Like this gif below, with dragging out and in animations.
And also the show all tabs feature.
Some of these features (and some others for customisation) are available with this control: https://github.com/onekiloparsec/KPCTabsControl
(disclaimer: I'm the main author).
NSTabView is one of the least customizable of all the NSControl.
Many people have used the popular PSMTabBarController (open source) as an alternative, which supports dragging tabs.
As far as animation is concerned, I've never tried animating a
Drag/Drop item, but it sounds really cool... Let me know if you find a way to change a drag image once it's been created.
In extension of the first question I asked here How to Scroll to the Bottom of a ListBox when Items are Added where I discovered how to scroll a ListBox to the most recently added item, I'd like to be able to take this one step further and add in some sort of slide in animation to newly added items. How might this be possible? Any starting points would be of great help.
I use Telerik's DataBoundListBox, it supports add/remove animations in a easy declarative way.
I need to implement the functionality that this library provides: XYOrigami. The main issue, is I must implement it to fold on the center view when the left view is revealed rather fold the side views. Unfortunately, this has become quite a task (and I'm currently looking at manipulating the library below to do so). The left tray should be just a tray with a width of 100 to 200. When it comes out, the center view should have a cringle origami effect and fold until the tray is hidden again. Is anyone aware of a library that does this or a way to accomplish this effect.
I think you will get the sample code in mpospese / EnterTheMatrix
repository.
Just have a look at the second last tab,"The Fold Animation" & then click view.
I think this view can be taken as the center view for your case & XYOrigami as the side menu.
You many need to tweak the EnterTheMatrix to fold-unfold horizontally unlikely as it fold-unfold vertically by default.
I hope you can make a new custom component hybridized from the above two Custom controls.
Happy Coding.
Hope that Helps.
Expression Blend 4 is changing the HorizontalAlignment and or VerticalAlignment when moving TextBlock objects with the keyboard or mouse. How can this be blocked?
I don't think it can be done. Its a visual editor, it will generate code depending on how the view looks after you're performed changes. It will create the best code that will match the layout you created based on what it understands.
It's a pain when it does that..
Go into the XAML view, and modify it by hand after you're happy everything is the right place and is the correct size, by just changing the Alignments and margins.
If you click the object, you will notice guide bars traveling vertically and horizontally from the object. At the end of these you will see little "chain link" icons. You can click these on and off at either end to toggle the alignment.
Apples Application like Pages and Numbers always show an additional small Toolbar under the main Toolbar. Is there an object like this in the Interface Builder or do I have to build it from scratch?
I looked in the IB Library but found nothing so far.
You use NSSegmentedControl objects to do that, styled to Capsule. To achieve segmented controls with labels aligned underneath (which are clickable, like in Mail.app and Preview.app), you need to put them into toolbar button groups. That can't be done in IB. See this discussion in the Cocoa mailing list:
http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/204390-capsule-style-toolbar-controls.html
There is no build-in control for that. You can take a look at the BWToolkit from Brandon Walkin. It has a lot of nice controls to build Apple-like applications. Maybe it can fit your needs...
It's just a simple view containing various controls. You could build most of it directly in Interface Builder. Just create an NSBox, give it a background color and then place "Mini"-sized controls in it.