During the last few months I have been exploring the ways to get my apps GUI to be efficeint and slick. When I was a CAD monkey I had to endure to torture of navigating through menu structures in plain Autocad. In a production environment trying to crank out drawings everyday do the same things over and over again (navigating menus) gets boring and painful.
Recently I ran across this:
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/TgXPPanel.asp?df=100&forumid=59468&exp=0&select=1337707This control is not yet implemented in VS.....but it ROCKS!!!!!
Put this in a palette and it changes everything. I had to tweek it up a bit by killing off the other panels when I clicked on the panel I wanted to display. Now I have the same thing as the tabs in the stock palette but I don't have read sideways when I want to go somewhere else. Think of the user doing this all day long :ugly:
The guy that wrote this should be given a .Net hero award.
The next thing I would like to happen is to get rid of the menu structure in Autocad and not even see it anymore.
Here is what I am so happy about.