Metro interface questions

[Richard Chidiak]

Good morning

I have some questions concerning the metro interface

1. Metropanel title , how can we center the title ?
2. Metropanel buttons . There is an alignment for the caption text and the bitmap but how can we force the button to be placed in the group

I have prepared an image to show this


on another hand how can we place buttons with different resolutions, in my sample buttons were built for 1024x600 resolution and i have done oMetro:nBtnSize = 110 * OWND:nHorzRes() / 1024

the result is not what i expect , this is an image showing with resolution 1600x900


Alignment is ok in this resolution

Thanks for clarification,

Richard

[Richard Chidiak]

For the button alignment on a new row, this can be done with a change to tmetrobtn class and tmetropnl

in tmetrobtn add a data

DATA lnewrow INIT .f. // chidiak

in tmetrobtn in arrange method

for each oBtn in aBtns
if If( oBtn:lLarge, nCol + 1, nCol ) > nCols .OR. oBtn:lnewrow // chidiak
nRow++
nCol := 0
endif
......

The result is ok, buttons are painted in new rows , probably more things to control

Richard[/quote]

[James Bott]

There are some very specific specifications for Metro style. For example, the font type, font size, text placement, text color (only one color), icon size (30x30 pixels), etc. that we should keep in mind.

http://www.windows8designhandbook.com/understanding-windows-8-live-tiles.html