ProGUI V1.31 Professional User Interface Library (Office 2007 styles + more)

[PrincieD]

V1.32 : Hi guys! this release fixes the huge amount of private-bytes/virtual memory (400 meg ) that was being allocated due to the use of nested hash map structures in the skin sub-system. I've now re-factored the sub-system to use just linked lists and should be just as quick as the map method.

Please note ProGUI is license-ware and will timeout at around 5 minutes per session so that you can trial out ProGUI with your applications. A license for the standard version is only €30 (EUR) however! There is also a ProGUI Gold license which is slightly more expensive but Includes full source code of ProGUI and a license to use it in your own projects: €45 (EUR)

http://www.progui.co.uk

ProGUI Forums

http://www.progui.co.uk/phpBB/index.php

ProGUI Main Archive: Includes DLL version, AutoIt wrapper and reference manual. (both native 32 bit and 64 bit versions of each)

http://www.progui.co.uk/downloads/ProGUI.rar

http://www.progui.co.uk/downloads/ProGUI.zip

Examples:

http://www.progui.co.uk/downloads/ProGUI_AutoIt_Examples.rar

http://www.progui.co.uk/downloads/ProGUI_AutoIt_Examples.zip

Main Features

· Easy to use and simple API with commands such as "MenuTitleEx(title.s)"

· Easy Installation

· Extremely fast rendering with internal caching and intelligent double-buffering.

· One of the most accurate replica of Whidbey, Office 2007 and Office 2003 styles that exist as well as improvements over Microsoft's engine such as flicker free menu tracking and superior menu scrolling!

· Native 32 bit and 64 bit versions!

· Windows 7, Vista and XP compatible.

· Unicode support.

. Full Source Code included in ProGUI Gold edition.

· Rebars! (IE Explorer style container control for toolbars), multiple rebars on multiple windows!

· Extended rebar functionality including new Office 2007 and Office 2003 style, auto vertical resizing and user vertical resizing.

· Super smooth window resizing of components, no wild jumping or flickering!

· Option for automatic double buffering of rebars when resizing!

· Full Automatic Chevron support for rebars, see IE Explorer - resize the window too small and click on the chevron to see a popup menu with toolbar icons.

· Extended toolbars, full 32bit Alpha masked icon/image support of any size for toolbar buttons with separate images for normal, hot and disabled states. As many toolbars as you want on multiple windows!

· New Office 2007/Office 2003 Toolstrip style toolbars!

. Office 2007/Office 2003 styled ComboBoxes in toolbars/rebars.

· Support for drop down buttons in toolbars, just pass a popup menu or extended popup menu to the command!

· Extended menus! Have cool "floating" menus contained in a rebar/container with ease! Full support for 32bit Alpha masked icons/images of any size in menus with support for different images for normal, hot and disabled states! Includes extended system menu and popup menu. Different styles of menus available for example: Office 2007 style menus, Office 2003 style menus, Office XP/Whidbey style menus, IE Explorer style, Classic/Mozilla Firefox Style and other styles. Automatic chevrons on menus when window resized too small! Automatic detection of system font change and resized accordingly. Full keyboard navigation and hot-key support. When menu goes off screen automatically fits inside screen (see Explorer for a bad implementation of this, see Firefox for a good implementation).

· Theme adaptive custom user defined colours for User Interface styles.

Thanks!

Chris.

Edited February 16, 2012 by PrincieD

[Mat]

If I wasn't a student I'd get the source... Unfortunately for you I am

[PrincieD]

If I wasn't a student I'd get the source... Unfortunately for you I am

hehe thats ok Mat and thanks I know what it's like to be a poor student, it sucks lol

[PrincieD]

This is the ExplorerBar example code and shows how easy it is to get up and running with ProGUI

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; Demonstrates how to use ExplorerBars
Global $Use64BitProGUI = False ; Use 64bit version of ProGUI (True/False)
#include <ProGUI_AutoIt.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <Constants.au3>
Func WindowHeight($hWnd)
    $rc = _WinAPI_GetClientRect($hWnd)
    Return DllStructGetData($rc, "bottom")-DllStructGetData($rc, "top")
EndFunc
Func WindowWidth($hWnd)
    $rc = _WinAPI_GetClientRect($hWnd)
    Return DllStructGetData($rc, "right")-DllStructGetData($rc, "left")
EndFunc

StartProGUI("", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)

;- Control Constants
Enum $ExplorerBar
; Define some global arrays for easy access of icon images
Global $imageNormal[8]
Global $imageHot[8]
Global $imageDisabled[8]
; load in some example icons
$imagenormal[0] = LoadImg("iconsshell32_1007.ico", 16, 16, 0)
$imagenormal[1] = LoadImg("iconsshell32_271.ico", 16, 16, 0)
$imagenormal[2] = LoadImg("iconsshell32_22.ico", 16, 16, 0)
$imagenormal[3] = LoadImg("iconsshell32_18.ico", 16, 16, 0)
$imagenormal[4] = LoadImg("iconsshell32_235.ico", 16, 16, 0)
$imagenormal[5] = LoadImg("iconsshell32_4.ico", 16, 16, 0)
$imagenormal[6] = LoadImg("iconsshell32_4.ico", 96, 96, 0)
;- process ProGUI Windows event messages here
Func ProGUI_EventCallback($hwnd, $message, $wParam, $lParam)
  Select
    ; handle selection of menu items And $buttons
    Case $message = $WM_COMMAND
      If Hword($wParam) = 0 Then ; is an ID Then
        $MenuID = LWord($wParam)
        ConsoleWrite($MenuID&@CRLF)
      EndIf
    ; resize panelex And $textcontrolex when main window resized
    Case $message = $WM_SIZE
      _WinAPI_MoveWindow(ExplorerBarID($ExplorerBar), 5, 5, 210, WindowHeight($Window_0)-10, True)
      _WinAPI_MoveWindow(PanelExID(0, -1), 215, 5, WindowWidth($Window_0)-220, WindowHeight($Window_0)-10, True)
  EndSelect
  Return $GUI_RUNDEFMSG
EndFunc
; creates a window
Func Open_Window_0()
  Global $Window_0 = GUICreate("ExplorerBar Example", 700, 500, -1, -1, BitOR($WS_SIZEBOX, $WS_MINIMIZEBOX, $WS_MAXIMIZEBOX))
  ; create our ExplorerBar
  CreateExplorerBar($Window_0, $ExplorerBar, 5, 5, 210, 490, 0)
  AddExplorerBarGroup("System Tasks")
    ExplorerBarImageItem(0, "View system information", $imagenormal[0], 0, 0, 0)
    ExplorerBarImageItem(1, "Add or remove programs", $imagenormal[1], 0, 0, 0)
    ExplorerBarImageItem(2, "Change a setting", $imagenormal[2], 0, 0, 0)
  AddExplorerBarGroup("Other Places")
    ExplorerBarImageItem(3, "My Network Places", $imagenormal[3], 0, 0, 0)
    ExplorerBarImageItem(4, "My Documents", $imagenormal[4], 0, 0, 0)
    ExplorerBarImageItem(5, "Shared Documents", $imagenormal[5], 0, 0, 0)
    ExplorerBarImageItem(6, "Control Panel", $imagenormal[2], 0, 0, 0)
  AddExplorerBarGroup("Details")
    ExplorerBarItem(7, "Example Item 1")
    ExplorerBarItem(8, "Example Item 2")
  ; create PanelEx as main window content
  CreatePanelEx(0, $Window_0, 215, 5, 480, 490, 0)
  AddPanelExImagePage(2, $imagenormal[6], 0, 0, 0, 0, BitOR($PNLX_CENTRE, $PNLX_VCENTRE))
  ; attach our events callback for processing Windows ProGUI messages
  GUIRegisterMsg($WM_COMMAND, "ProGUI_EventCallback")
GUIRegisterMsg($WM_SIZE, "ProGUI_EventCallback")
GUIRegisterMsg($REBAR_UPDATED, "ProGUI_EventCallback")
GUIRegisterMsg($TCX_LINK_CLICK, "ProGUI_EventCallback")
GUIRegisterMsg($TCX_LINK_HOVER, "ProGUI_EventCallback")
EndFunc

Open_Window_0() ; create window
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) ; show our newly created window
; enter main event loop
Do
  $Event = GUIGetMsg()
Until $Event = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

[Mikeman27294]

You never fail to dissappoint with ProGUI, do you? I would buy it too but I'm also a student, and I don't have a job so unfortunately I can't.

[PrincieD]

You never fail to dissappoint with ProGUI, do you? I would buy it too but I'm also a student, and I don't have a job so unfortunately I can't.

Thanks Mike! and no worries, it's a tough time for us all at the moment with the current economic climate - hopefully things will get better soon (fingers crossed!).

Chris.

[engjcowi]

This is awesome. Defo gonna look into this further

Thanks

[PrincieD]

This is awesome. Defo gonna look into this further

Thanks

Thanks engjcowi!

Chris.

[Xenobiologist]

Looks, very good, but it is not that easy to creat buttons and react on a click on that button and so on.

Which language is it?

Thanks for sharing, I'll test a little bit.

[PrincieD]

Looks, very good, but it is not that easy to creat buttons and react on a click on that button and so on.

Thanks Xenobiologist! yes it's a little bit more fiddly with the event capturing: AutoIT controls have their events captured like normal in the GUIGetMsg() loop (and can be mixed and matched with ProGUI controls). However ProGUI event messages are captured using the standard WinAPI WM_Command model and this needs to be registered as an AutoIT callback using the GUIRegisterMsg() command (please see the ExplorerBar code above for an example).

Which language is it?

ProGUI is wrote using PureBasic.

Thanks for sharing, I'll test a little bit.

no worries and thanks!

Chris.

[PrincieD]

New update! V1.32, see top of thread.

Chris.

[acidman]

damn this is nice, good work man!!!

[Rizonetech]

Hi, PrincieD

I'm thinking about purchasing ProGUI. Are you still supporting the project?

[TheDcoder]

@Rizonetech You better contact him at his website since he hasn't visited the forum since 2012...

[Rizonetech]

22 hours ago, TheDcoder said:

@Rizonetech You better contact him at his website since he hasn't visited the forum since 2012...

I've contacted him on his website already. He is not replying. I will try again soon. Thank you for your reply.

[TheDcoder]

54 minutes ago, Rizonetech said:

I've contacted him on his website already. He is not replying. I will try again soon.

I highly doubt that he checks his website's emails/queries anymore... so you might have to wait a few weeks for him to reply.

56 minutes ago, Rizonetech said:

Thank you for your reply.

My pleasure

[water]

16 minutes ago, TheDcoder said:

I highly doubt that he checks his website's emails/queries anymore...

Why do you think so?
The latest version of his tool is 1.39 and the copyright of his websites was updated 2015.

[TheDcoder]

Yes, I just noticed that... still the same opinion, will have to wait a few weeks before getting a response.