Lose Your Mind Development

As promised in an earlier posting, here are two screenshots from the Uninstall Fonts dialog box. Click the see the full size images.

I’ve been experimenting with the gradient colors in the dialog box header. For now, the gradient colors a similar to those used in the Windows Live product line (Messenger, Writer). So the gradient goes from RGB(0,119,166) to RGB(155,244,255). I like the colors. But I still need to check on them in Vista.

The rounded corner gradient comes from Nick Waelti and his excellent AlphaGradientPanel control for Windows Forms based projects. (Control used with permission from the author.)

The screenshots below use Vista style icons. But the interface has an option for XP icons as well.

It happens to be the first western OpenType font shipped by Microsoft. It was shipped with Windows 2000.

fontblog : A blast from type past!

I’ve been working on the screens and code for installing fonts. The options on the screens are very similar to those in PA 7.5. But rather than using a step by step Wizard approach, I’ve switched to a tabbed dialog.

The list of fonts to be installed is on one tab. Options and settings are on the second. The user only sees the Options if they click the tab.

As the fonts are installed, a standard Windows progress bar (not shown above) lets the user know that work is being done. Green checks are placed next to fonts that are successfully installed. Red X’s are placed next to fonts that (you guessed it) don’t get installed for whatever reason.

The screens and installation code are working very well for TrueType, OpenType and Type 1 fonts. I do need to add a logging feature to the routines.

Next up – uninstalling fonts.   — Bryan