I would love to see a new UI for ReactOS. I hate the Win95 / NT look.
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:29:04 +0200, Jasper van de Gronde th.v.d.gronde@hccnet.nl wrote:
Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood wrote:
Only thing is, I'm not sure if the tree-view is necessary - how many users visit the network config dialogs more than once in a blue moon to adjust something? I only ever delve in there if I'm testing a router for someone and have to change my subnet.
I agree, but would it hurt them? I feel Windows is just a bit too much like a maze in this case.
Also, I think the protocol-specific dialogs are actually in separate modules, and appear as dialogs. I could be wrong. But this would mean it'd not be possible to do as you describe :(
In some cases standard dialogs appear to be used along with information in the registry that defines what parameters there are, their types and values (in particular the RealTek driver I use seems to do this). This scheme seems to not very complex than the previous one and should lend itself very well to displaying in custom dialogs. I don't know how common this is though and whether it's only for nic's or also protocols for example.
For displaying custom property sheets there appears to be an INetCfg interface on (recent versions of?) Windows, but I can't say I fully understand the details of what this and would not allow you to do (what exactly qualifies as a "network component" for example). And I have no idea at all whether something like this is supported by ReactOS.
But as a compromise - if necessary - maybe it'd be an idea to copy the Firefox style of "preferences" dialog, with icons where the tree-view is, but have each icon represent a different connection...
If only one level is feasible this might indeed not be such a bad idea (although it might get a little clumsy if it contained more than a few entries). _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.com http://reactos.com:8080/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev