How To Beautify the Software Interface In MFC?

wb_program

Hi all, Recently,I have to design a small soft,but how to make the software interface on our own style is beyond us.As we all known, the window created by MFC is very ugly.Some software interface is so attractive,but how to imatate?(English is not my mother language and this is my first time ashing question,I am sorry I can't declared my doubt clearly.) Thanks

Madhu Nair 0

wb_program wrote:

Some software interface is so attractive,but how to imatate?(

Why not ? :) Which one you want to imitate ?

David Crow

wb_program wrote:

As we all known, the window created by MFC is very ugly.

Which is your opinion, not everyone elses.

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Maximilien

wb_program wrote:

but how to imatate?

With a lot of work and knowledge with Win32 and advanced MFC.

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CPallini

wb_program wrote:

As we all known, the window created by MFC is very ugly.

Hey man, how did you gain access to my MFC applications? :-D (BTW: there are many beautyful applications written using MFC) :)

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bulg

You might like this[^]. Also, search the code project for CPictureEx class for displaying simple animated .gif. If you have time to get into "OwnerDraw" options, then you can _really_ make anything look like whatever you want, even with MFC

wb_program

I know there are many beautyful applications written using MFC,but I can't make it :sigh:

Taran9

Use Adobe Photoshop to make custom defined bitmaps of whatever design you want and paste it onto the dialogs during initialization + OnPaint handlers. Simple! There are numerous code samples available on this site.

Chandrasekharan P

Making a good GUI is not that difficult as the way you say. there are lots of applications available over the net. and you just need some imagination of how the screen should look like.. :-)

CPallini

This [^] may help. :)

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Rajesh R Subramanian

If you're using VS 2008, you can download the MFC Feature Pack[^], which introduces a lot of new classes for UI development. You may have a look at the reference[^] page too.

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Rajesh R Subramanian

You beat me to it. 5. :) Klingon programmers don't care about beautification of the UI, but that's a different thing. :)

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CPallini

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

Klingon programmers don't care about beautification of the UI

That's right and, moreover, Klingon programmers don't defend (nor use) MFC. I lost 100 Klingon points indeed... :(( :-D

If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
[My articles]