TAB Alpha Release 26

[catventure]

Hi,

A minor update today to the adventure project:

05 Feb 2008 (Release 26)
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* NEW Adventure Player now uses tb Statusbar commands.
* NEW Tab now uses icons in dialog window and Statusbar.
* Some minor fix.

http://tab.thinbasic.com/tab.zip (1.58mb)

Important: Latest preview 1.6.0.1 required.

*Also, Bundled version updated (TAB Player only + games to play; thinBASIC not required)

http://tab.thinbasic.com/tabdemo.zip (2.42mb)

Regards,
catventure.

[matthew]

Nice update cat

[catventure]

Hi Matthew,

Thanks for checking it out.

Could you, or anybody else for that matter, please tell me if the statusbar icons are appearing in the TAB Player when it is run?

http://tab.thinbasic.com/tabdemo.zip

Reason I'm curious is that I just downloaded the bundled version of TAB Player and ran it on a Windows Vista Home Premium machine that does not have thinbasic installed just to check it out, and although Dialog Set Icon OK, and Statusbar set text Ok, the Statusbar icons (the ones in Icons folder) are not showing up...

Don't know if problem with my code, bundled obfuscated script or issue with Vista Home Premium.
I should add it works perfectly on my Windows Vista Home Basic; but then I also have latest preview thinbasic 1.6.0.1 installed....

The icon sizes used for the dialog window was 32x32 whereas the ones used for statusbar icons are 72x72

I'd be grateful for any feedback or findings to this end.

Thanks,
catventure.

[Michael Hartlef]

On WinXP Professional here at my job it shows the icons fine.

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi,

thanks for nice update, TAB now got really nice look!
Also good idea to rename directory with games.

All seems working fine here, but I have XPs SP2.

I cannot find icons of 72x72 size, only 32x32 and 16x16 in both source and binary TAB distributions.

If you tried 72x72 and it did not worked than it is probable, as I think 32x32 is recommended size I think ( citation needed, but could not find one ). You could try 64x64, as it is power of two, which could matter ... for some reason, but this is wild guess.

It is pretty weird if script runs ok on Vista Home and not on Vista Premium, that would mean there are big differences internally between those two systems, which is thing I would not expect.


Thanks,
Petr

[catventure]

Good, Petr & Michael. I am glad it is working OK on yours as expected.
I think Eros used 128x128 for his example richedit002 script. Anyhow, not sure if size is the problem at all.
I will d/load the bundled demo again on the Home Premium machine and try again to see if any change or if I can fathom out a solution as to why the discrepancy persists.

Thanks again,
catventure

[ErosOlmi]

Hi all,

I will check this evening when at home.

Maybe the problem is when .ICO files are used.
Can you please see if using ProgressBar script example is working with Windows Vista Home Premium?

Ciao
Eros

[matthew]

Last week my XP laptop finally stopped working so I brought a new one which came with 'Vista Home Premium'.

I've attached an image of what the the tab player looks like when run.

I should also add that the bundled script and thinbasic script both look the same when used on my computer.

[ErosOlmi]

Great picture Matthew

Catventure, I noted in your source that when you handle %WM_SIZE message you also resize status bar.
The new native StatusBar control automatically adjust to window size, so there is no need to change size manually.
This should not be related to icon problem but increase window flickering.

I'm also checking your code to see if it could be possible to use CONTROL RESIZE ... to automatically adject controls position and size instead of handling %WM_SIZE.
Anyhow, thanks a lot to keep TAB updated with the latest UI additions. You are doing a great work for us!

Ciao
Eros

[matthew]

Great picture Matthew

Lol

Now I've got my new computer I want to show people how good it looks.