Request for help of GUI programmer

[ilmenit]

Hi,

 

There are two projects that I develop that would be much more user friendly with GUI.

 

The first one is Quantizator - a graphics converter.

The second one is Adventure Studio - a framework to create point & click adventure games.

 

For the Quantizator I imagine the GUI as similar to this one.

The Adventure Studio could have a GUI in type of AGS.

 

Is there anyone who would like to create a GUI for these project? Do you know anyone who could help?

[PeteD]

If you want to try it yourself have a look at VB.NET, it's the easiest thing I've used for GUI creation. The language itself is a bit bad for lower level stuff but there are fairly simple ways round everything. To get the simple options for quantizator done in a gui would take you about an hour once you're all set up. You can call DLLs from it too but you have to be careful with accessing ram as that's one of the things VB doesn't like you doing, but as I say, there are ways round everything to conform to it's standards.

 

I'd suggest trying it yourself because getting someone to do your GUI code is ok for a finished app or a fairly simple one but for something like AS or if you add more complex stuff to quantizator you've got to rely on them to keep it up to date.

 

 

Pete

[+rdemming]

If you want to try it yourself have a look at VB.NET, it's the easiest thing I've used for GUI creation. The language itself is a bit bad for lower level stuff but there are fairly simple ways round everything. To get the simple options for quantizator done in a gui would take you about an hour once you're all set up. You can call DLLs from it too but you have to be careful with accessing ram as that's one of the things VB doesn't like you doing, but as I say, there are ways round everything to conform to it's standards.

 

I'd suggest trying it yourself because getting someone to do your GUI code is ok for a finished app or a fairly simple one but for something like AS or if you add more complex stuff to quantizator you've got to rely on them to keep it up to date.

 

 

Pete

 

If you don't have any VB experience or if you already have C, C++ or Java experience, consider using C# instead of VB.NET. C# has in my opinion a much cleaner syntax similar to Java and C++. And with C# you can do the same as with VB.NET and a little more. And if you learn C# instead of VB, it will be easier to learn the syntax of Java and C++ in the future.

 

Robert

[ilmenit]

Guys, thanks for your comments. I used to do GUIs in MFC, wxWidgets, SmartWin, Borland Delphi and Qt. I know how to do it, but I simply don't like it...

I'd prefer to focus more on the Quantizator engine (color changes in line, sprites) and Adventure Studio features instead of GUI, plus I have some other Atari projects that I work on.

I'm asking for help, because I receive a lot of requests for GUIs for both projects.