First Qt build (no emulation yet)

[mudlord]

I started a redesign of the main options.

Herein attached is what I done so far...

The basic aim is for a unified options dialog, and I always wanted one in VBA-M, since I hate the messiness of it currently. Any criticism, is appreciated.

[deniseweird]

I didn't have much problem with the previous design. But this does look good.

BTW, is it hard to create a GUI with Qt Designer if you don't know coding?

[mudlord]

Its essential you know C++ or another object oriented language when you wire the widgets in, as Qt4 is purely object oriented. But if you want to make mock GUIs and not implement them, you don't need to know C++.

[Spacy]

I would prefer the tabs on the left side, like on that screenshot DSman posted some time ago:

http://forums.ngemu.com/vba-m/98623-...ml#post1258179

[TheCloudOfSmoke]

Originally Posted by mudlord

I started a redesign of the main options.

Herein attached is what I done so far...

The basic aim is for a unified options dialog, and I always wanted one in VBA-M, since I hate the messiness of it currently. Any criticism, is appreciated.

Actually, I like that idea. I was thinking that VBA should have one dialog box for all of its options for a while now.

[mudlord]

I would prefer the tabs on the left side, like on that screenshot DSman posted some time ago

Ahk, in that case we need decent icons

[Dualscreenman]

Oxygen? :P

[mudlord]

Wow! Those icons are SEXY!

Can anyone supply me with a link to the complete Oxygen icon set?

[Dualscreenman]

Index of /trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/pics/oxygen

[mudlord]

Thank you!

[TheCloudOfSmoke]

Yeah, those are nice icons. I checked that link and I don't know what to download. :/

[mudlord]

To download, you need to use a SVN client, to download from the KDE SVN. Thats what I did. If you are interested in specific icons, I can upload some packs.

[Dualscreenman]

All of those are 64x64. The Monitor and the Gamepad are in the "devices" directory. The Sound one is in "apps".

[Dualscreenman]

This patch adds various shortcuts for menu actions:

Crtl+T now opens the translation file dialog.
Crtl+Q now exits VBA-M.

One issue, though, is that the "File" menu isn't wide enough, so "Exit" will now appear as "ExitCrtl+Q"

[Spacy]

I made a small update and changed the runtimes to dynamic.

From now on, get the DLL package from http://vba-m.ngemu.com/vbam/vbaother...vba_qt_dlls.7z (2.4 MB, only once).

You may then download the current Qt build: http://vba-m.ngemu.com/vbam/vbaother.../vba_qt_369.7z (13kB ^^)


@Dualscreenman:
I don't think we should add all the shortcuts manually. We'd better re-invent the accelerator manager from the MFC GUI.


Edit:
The old&fat Qt builds have been erased, btw.

[mudlord]

Nice job Spacy.

I'm glad that this has been done early in the dev cycle, as it will save us plenty of headaches in the future...

[Spacy]

I also tried to use mingw with Visual Studio, but it breakes the debugger, the compiler error output and I got strange compiler errors on top.

However, compiling a simple release build from the command line with mingw and the Qt setup works perfectly fine. I wrote a small How-To @ https://vbam.bountysource.com/wiki

[mudlord]

Nice! Although I acquired Visual Studio 2008 Professional with MSDN, and it works just fine with that.

[Dualscreenman]

@Spacy
Okay, I guess I'll trust you on this one since I have no clue how the MFC GUI is coded. :P I Never really looked at the code. (Plus you're a better coder than me)

[mudlord]

However, compiling a simple release build from the command line with mingw and the Qt setup works perfectly fine. I wrote a small How-To @ https://vbam.bountysource.com/wiki

Thanks, within a couple of seconds and a minor source code patch, was able to compile fine with my version of MinGW.