Commercial GUI Libraries
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Prof-UIS[^] Excellent price, library (which is growing pretty quickly) and support. I've switched from some of the above mentioned to them. ed ~"Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." - -Uknown.
I'll second Prof-UIS. I'm using it in Surfulater (see sig). It is under constant development and they are very responsive to specific feature requests. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows www.getsoft.com and Surfulater www.surfulater.com "Save what you Surf"
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As many others I used(!) the MFC toolkit from http://www.bcgsoft.com [^]. Last year, again as many other, I switched to the same-looking-but-much-better-designed (from a code perspective) toolkit from http://www.codejock.com [^]. I strongly recommend the one from CodeJock if you do MFC. -- Affordable Windows-based CMS: www.zeta-producer.com
I am still using BCG. Why should I consider CodeJock? You said "many others" have switched? Why? How is the design different and what difference does it make in your opinion? I am interested to find out if I am missing out on something. I assume CodeJock allows customization of the menus, toolbars and keyboard nowadays (always a strength with BCG)? The last time I looked at CodeJock it didn't look very good when running with large fonts enabled, something BCG copes with very well.
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I am still using BCG. Why should I consider CodeJock? You said "many others" have switched? Why? How is the design different and what difference does it make in your opinion? I am interested to find out if I am missing out on something. I assume CodeJock allows customization of the menus, toolbars and keyboard nowadays (always a strength with BCG)? The last time I looked at CodeJock it didn't look very good when running with large fonts enabled, something BCG copes with very well.
Of course I'm biased when saying "many others", since I do *hate* the code-design/-architecture of BCG. Someone who switched were the developers of the tools at www.speedproject.com [^]. The reason why I switched: I wanted to add a local toolbar and menubar to a dialog box (i.e. NOT only inside the main window, but at a second window). I found out that the library is terribly designed around the main window and that what I wanted did work somehow, but with all sort of problems (I forgot most of them, but I recall some message routing stuff, some focus problems, etc.) When I tried CodeJock I saw that their overall design allowed everything I needed in a really clear and understandable manner, leaving that BCG way behind them. So that's the reason :) -- Affordable Windows-based CMS: www.zeta-producer.com
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Of course I'm biased when saying "many others", since I do *hate* the code-design/-architecture of BCG. Someone who switched were the developers of the tools at www.speedproject.com [^]. The reason why I switched: I wanted to add a local toolbar and menubar to a dialog box (i.e. NOT only inside the main window, but at a second window). I found out that the library is terribly designed around the main window and that what I wanted did work somehow, but with all sort of problems (I forgot most of them, but I recall some message routing stuff, some focus problems, etc.) When I tried CodeJock I saw that their overall design allowed everything I needed in a really clear and understandable manner, leaving that BCG way behind them. So that's the reason :) -- Affordable Windows-based CMS: www.zeta-producer.com
We are sorry, but when the library was being designed, a very important feature as adding a main menu to a dialog wasn’t implemented. It was really our fault and we apologize for it. I understand now, that this feature will be a main stream in the next generation of GUI design and we’ll immediately start to implement it. In addition, we’ll put a link to example demonstrating how to add toolbars to dialogs on every page of our site. Otherwise, it’s very hard to find it in our “Samples” folder, we understand it now.:-D Also, it was our mistake to assume, that a customer, who has a trouble, should call our support center. But this way is very primitive, isn’t it? The much more elegant way is using CP’s forum, where customer can tell how bad BCGSoft’s team and how he hate our company.:-D Now, let’s put away jokes and smiles. Customer satisfaction is very important to us and we do all the best to improve our products and services. If customer wants to get most of the product functionality, he/she should learn and understand it deeply first, and our support team is always ready to help. Stas Levin BCGSoft Ltd CEO http://www.bcgsoft.com The world of MFC GUI Components.
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We are sorry, but when the library was being designed, a very important feature as adding a main menu to a dialog wasn’t implemented. It was really our fault and we apologize for it. I understand now, that this feature will be a main stream in the next generation of GUI design and we’ll immediately start to implement it. In addition, we’ll put a link to example demonstrating how to add toolbars to dialogs on every page of our site. Otherwise, it’s very hard to find it in our “Samples” folder, we understand it now.:-D Also, it was our mistake to assume, that a customer, who has a trouble, should call our support center. But this way is very primitive, isn’t it? The much more elegant way is using CP’s forum, where customer can tell how bad BCGSoft’s team and how he hate our company.:-D Now, let’s put away jokes and smiles. Customer satisfaction is very important to us and we do all the best to improve our products and services. If customer wants to get most of the product functionality, he/she should learn and understand it deeply first, and our support team is always ready to help. Stas Levin BCGSoft Ltd CEO http://www.bcgsoft.com The world of MFC GUI Components.
Sorry, it was not my intention to talk in a bad way about your library in the public, i just wanted to describe the reasons why I switched over to another library. Probably I wrote to emotional. Sorry! -- Affordable Windows-based CMS: www.zeta-producer.com