DirectX control library
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I've got a client who is driving me nuts! They want the user interface for their application to look '24th century' (Trek fan) and have read enough to believe that DirectX is the way to give them a totally unique UI. I've explained that all the usefullness of the standard Windows controls isn't available when you're using DirectX, but they're determined that their application will look like no other. From the research and googling I've done it appears that there is some information available about this, but not a lot. Has anyone out there attempted anything like this, or have a pointer to a project by chance? Or, do I triple my price to cover the effort and start from scratch?
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I've got a client who is driving me nuts! They want the user interface for their application to look '24th century' (Trek fan) and have read enough to believe that DirectX is the way to give them a totally unique UI. I've explained that all the usefullness of the standard Windows controls isn't available when you're using DirectX, but they're determined that their application will look like no other. From the research and googling I've done it appears that there is some information available about this, but not a lot. Has anyone out there attempted anything like this, or have a pointer to a project by chance? Or, do I triple my price to cover the effort and start from scratch?
Actually if you look at the Managed DX samples in the new DirectX SDK there are some standard contrls that can be custom drawn that really do look cool. I think you might even get some/most of the functionality of that control, too. Of course you could also do the same with all custom drawn controls and just forget about using DX. Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD
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I've got a client who is driving me nuts! They want the user interface for their application to look '24th century' (Trek fan) and have read enough to believe that DirectX is the way to give them a totally unique UI. I've explained that all the usefullness of the standard Windows controls isn't available when you're using DirectX, but they're determined that their application will look like no other. From the research and googling I've done it appears that there is some information available about this, but not a lot. Has anyone out there attempted anything like this, or have a pointer to a project by chance? Or, do I triple my price to cover the effort and start from scratch?
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