Right, with "Taking shape" I don't necesarilly mean that it's almost ready for release. It's still very far from that. But I made some changes today that will load the installation path from registry and load the skin and language from the appropriate places, instead of the hard-coded one :)

I've also fought with the image-loading for most of the day. I thought that GDI-plus (image library included with XP) could simply load an image and pass it on to my GUI, but gawd, was I wrong!

It seemed right at first, however all alpha transparent images had a weird blue border around them. First I just thought that my images were wrong, however when Alex (someone helping me a bit with the design now Rolando is busy) sent me some new images it appeared that the blue border was not just something that I did wrong in copy pasting, but everything that was even slightly transparent got a blue blur :S It appeared GDIplus first blended the images over blue, and then passed them along to my program ;) Took me long enough to figure that out! Anyway, it's done now, and the images seem to be perfect now :D wheee! (Yes, I am very happy ;))

I said I was going to post some tools, but I can't upload on spaces, and it's a bit too late to fire up my FTP client, so that'll have to wait ;)

I have, however, uploaded some screenshots! They're in the photo-album under the "March 14th" album. Nothing revolutionary, just a few shots :) Will probably look nice once it's done, a whole photo album of the progress ;)

Anyway, not much to tell, I've fixed some things in the options thing, revised the directory structure, written something to pass options back and forth between the user interface and the program, done some work on the GUI itself, and spend most of the time getting that darn images to work :@

 

Tomorrow update will be more detailed. I'm tired now, and I haven't had enough sleep the past few weeks, so I gotta catch up :)

 

Bye,

TB