Idea for redesigning interface

[Concerto]

Just a quick idea for redesign………

Chatbox would be resizable, consolidated menu items in top bar, added a “busy” state, added notification in chatbox, etc.

[hentaiboy69]

Seems good, Concerto……wonder if this will be done!

This is another proof of your talent, my friend!

[Rukya]

Hmmm you set the chatbox little big , hope you dont want it as big in room 

[Anonymous]

No it isn't expected to be that large in room but, as I mentioned, it should be resizable

[Lover]

Great idea Concerto!!

[Anonymous]

ok, again with little thought and not much time, I have redesigned the Character Editor screen and introduced hotlink to the Shop and Forum….

I hope you like them

[Rukya]

Great work concerto i like how you made the character editor screen . If the ZZZ button was where you pulled it , this will be really better

Ps: strange , i dont see a square for the hmmm is it panty for men too ?

Pps : sorry HB if you cant read my post , my color of the day is brown 

[hentaiboy69]

Concerto, i really like it, but do you have forget a “Go to forum” button! isn't it one of the update we ask for several months!? Can you try to add it too!? anyway, you have my greetings for this wonderful example!

Rukya, lol….of course i can read your post, you silly girl….. 

[Rukya]

Rukya, lol….of course i can read your post, you silly girl….. 

SILLY ?!!!!! GRRRRRR you earned this  :

[img width=400]http://img2.rule34.xxx/thumbs/rule34/280/thumbnail_c6c7d5ec721dc08f63551c1f31dbce205a117dc6.gif?279254[/img]

[Anonymous]

@hb69 ok so I have added a button for hotlink to forum… of course, it would just be a browser window, as currently….

…and I have shown how the windows would (could) appear on your desktop

oh @rukya… men can't wear underwear in public, unless it is based on the trouser model (or so they tell me)

[hentaiboy69]

Concerto, you have done an excelent job! now, all we need is pray for have it realeased!

[Lover]

If we now have more room for our own description and more space in banner it would be perfect.

AnnieMay has suggested an idea in “Share your creative ideas”
https://funnyadultgamesplay.com/forum/index.php/topic,2231.msg46153.html#new

Perhaps we can have a dropdown menu “Prefered languages” below country. We also can remove the skin colour and just have it in editor.
Same with character type and favourites – I don't need to see every possible choice, just the one people have chosen.

[AnnieMay]

If we now have more room for our own description and more space in banner it would be perfect.

AnnieMay has suggested an idea in “Share your creative ideas”
https://funnyadultgamesplay.com/forum/index.php/topic,2231.msg46153.html#new

Perhaps we can have a dropdown menu “Prefered languages” below country. We also can remove the skin colour and just have it in editor.
Same with character type and favourites – I don't need to see every possible choice, just the one people have chosen.

Yes and the shop could be included as in my original thought and also made of with an idea here. For example I looked at what Achat was coded in, peeked. If you are curious of the development platform it is Visual Studio. There are webkits available for the devs to use. This makes it  entirely possible for the devs to include a browser or browser-like function inside the program. In short they could create a tab/window that directly links to the shop. Which would display within that tab/window. The redesign could just be applied to the online web store.

As far as repositioning things or making new graphics.
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.dds – Can be edited in GIMP or other editors. (graphics)
.win – Can be edited in any text editor. (element) aka windows/etc.
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As far as new things that would need of course coding, or it would just be a meaningless template.

Location of files : AppDataLocalAChatGUI

To be completely honest the devs are using a very old style in development coding. It is better and more flexible to use XML templates. It allows for rapid development from either the devs or any user modifications. This is why many applications are now using XML templates. And if anyone says this is beyond the scope of the program. It is not. XML templating is COMPLETELY possible.

As far as the text files pulled into the program at requested times. Instead of having it all out as it is now. It could be stored all in a .zip file. That the program traverses for the required file, then reads it. Rather than it lay in a bunch of text files in a folder.

Thinking about it. Pretty much a lot of the data Achat has. Could be stored in some way. This would reduce it from being 2 GB about on a machine. While some might say I have enough. Its not so much enough over what is the need to be messy for? Its the same way how coders will try and make their code as neat and as efficient and as small as they can. Its good practice.

[Anonymous]

@lover…
not sure what you mean about skin color, character type and favorites. They only appear in expanded form in the editor anyway not to another user. I haven't even thought about the “partner search” or “in room” windows. Well, that isn't true, I have thought a lot about them but see my comment to AnnieMay.

@AnnieMay…
Anything over a year old is already out of date. My ideas were based on things that I felt could be achieved easily and quickly using the same fundamental interface. I refrained from suggesting what might be considered by some to be a complete rethink. I am not holding my breath with regard to anyone responsible even looking at what I had proposed, let alone acting on it. That was literally done off the top of my head when I was bored for a few minutes and, to a certain extent, for my own amusement.

[AnnieMay]

@lover…
not sure what you mean about skin color, character type and favorites. They only appear in expanded form in the editor anyway not to another user. I haven't even thought about the “partner search” or “in room” windows. Well, that isn't true, I have thought a lot about them but see my comment to AnnieMay.

@AnnieMay…
Anything over a year old is already out of date. My ideas were based on things that I felt could be achieved easily and quickly using the same fundamental interface. I refrained from suggesting what might be considered by some to be a complete rethink. I am not holding my breath with regard to anyone responsible even looking at what I had proposed, let alone acting on it. That was literally done off the top of my head when I was bored for a few minutes and, to a certain extent, for my own amusement.

The old was not aimed at you , was at the devs (My comment even noted it toward the devs). You didn't do the coding to that. The layout coding is a lot older than a year in that regard using a .win structure. XML templates have been widely used for some time now. As far as a complete rethink. That is why I supplied you with a method to restructuring it the way you like. And potentially sharing it with other users, beyond just a adapted graphic. The given files can be easily modified.

Example the buttons.win file opened up in a text editor shows :

Code:

BEGIN
TITLE Buttons
X0 0
Y0 0
WIDTH 800
HEIGHT 600
OPTIONS 0x00000011
END

BEGIN
TYPE BUTTON
OBJID 1
X0 747
Y0 12
WIDTH 47
HEIGHT 19
TEXT 3
TEXT_X0 9
TEXT_Y0 0
FONT_SIZE 20
PICTURE GUI1_kilepes
END

BEGIN
TYPE TEXT
OBJID 7
TEXT Frames/sec
WIDTH 0
HEIGHT 0
X0 0
Y0 28
FONT_NAME fontp
FONT_COLOR 0xffff8000
FONT_SIZE 20
END

BEGIN
TYPE BUTTON
OBJID 2
X0 3
Y0 52
WIDTH 46
HEIGHT 23
TEXT Cica
TEXT_X0 5
TEXT_Y0 4
FONT_SIZE 20
FONT_NAME fontp
PICTURE GUI1_invisible
END

BEGIN
TYPE BUTTON
OBJID 3
X0 49
Y0 52
WIDTH 43
HEIGHT 23
TEXT Mica
TEXT_X0 6
TEXT_Y0 4
FONT_SIZE 20
FONT_NAME fontp
PICTURE GUI1_invisible
END

BEGIN
TYPE BUTTON
OBJID 4
X0 3
Y0 6
WIDTH 20
HEIGHT 20
PICTURE GUIdef_toggle
END

*BEGIN
TYPE IMAGE
OBJID 5
X0 0
Y0 48
WIDTH 122
HEIGHT 38
SELECTABLE FALSE
TEXTURE GUI1_ful_bal
END

*BEGIN
TYPE IMAGE
OBJID 6
X0 0
Y0 48
WIDTH 122
HEIGHT 38
SELECTABLE FALSE
TEXTURE GUI1_ful_jobb
END

*BEGIN
TYPE IMAGE
OBJID 0
X0 0
Y0 0
WIDTH 800
HEIGHT 600
SELECTABLE FALSE
TEXTURE GUI1_background01
END

BEGIN
TYPE IMAGE
OBJID 8
X0 655
Y0 5
WIDTH 16
HEIGHT 16
TEXTURE GUIoggplay
END

BEGIN
TYPE IMAGE
OBJID 9
X0 655
Y0 5
WIDTH 16
HEIGHT 16
TEXTURE GUIoggstop
END

BEGIN
TYPE IMAGE
OBJID 10
X0 675
Y0 5
WIDTH 16
HEIGHT 16
TEXTURE GUIoggnext
END

BEGIN
TYPE BUTTON
OBJID 11
X0 540
Y0 3
WIDTH 20
HEIGHT 20
PICTURE GUIdef_wg
END

BEGIN
TYPE BUTTON
OBJID 12
X0 565
Y0 3
WIDTH 20
HEIGHT 20
PICTURE GUIdef_wt
END

BEGIN
TYPE BUTTON
OBJID 13
X0 590
Y0 3
WIDTH 20
HEIGHT 20
PICTURE GUIdef_wx
END

BEGIN
TYPE BUTTON
OBJID 14
X0 615
Y0 3
WIDTH 20
HEIGHT 20
PICTURE GUIdef_wa
END

BEGIN
TYPE BUTTON
OBJID 16
X0 535
Y0 446
WIDTH 20
HEIGHT 20
PICTURE GUIdef_c1
END

BEGIN
TYPE BUTTON
OBJID 17
X0 560
Y0 446
WIDTH 20
HEIGHT 20
PICTURE GUIdef_c2
END

BEGIN
TYPE BUTTON
OBJID 18
X0 625
Y0 446
WIDTH 20
HEIGHT 20
PICTURE GUIdef_cs
END

BEGIN
TYPE BUTTON
OBJID 19
X0 625
Y0 446
WIDTH 20
HEIGHT 20
PICTURE GUIdef_ct
END

BEGIN
TYPE IMAGE
OBJID 21
X0 533
Y0 444
WIDTH 24
HEIGHT 24
SELECTABLE FALSE
TEXTURE GUIselect
END

BEGIN
TYPE IMAGE
OBJID 22
X0 558
Y0 444
WIDTH 24
HEIGHT 24
SELECTABLE FALSE
TEXTURE GUIselect
END

BEGIN
TYPE IMAGE
OBJID 23
X0 623
Y0 444
WIDTH 24
HEIGHT 24
SELECTABLE FALSE
TEXTURE GUIselect
END

BEGIN
TYPE BUTTON
OBJID 24
X0 510
Y0 446
WIDTH 20
HEIGHT 20
PICTURE GUIdef_ce
END

BEGIN
TYPE IMAGE
OBJID 25
X0 508
Y0 444
WIDTH 24
HEIGHT 24
SELECTABLE FALSE
TEXTURE GUIselect
END

Was showing you how since some of your changes can be done yourself, in edit to the graphic and window templates. And if you come up with a neat design to share it. More drastic changes would need Achat to do it themselves. Though graphic changes with button reassignment etc can be done without them in an edit. I do hope you act on it as it is something that you or I, or anyone else can do. Figured if you knew how to edit the files you would try. Hence why I listed how to.

I may do a window/graphic redesign eventually myself. Though college comes first.

So skin away you .. skin away. For those wondering what I mean by skin. Read all the aforementioned texts, you'll get the idea of skin and re-skin.

To work with .dds in a editor you will need a plug-in for it.
.dds for GIMP : http://registry.gimp.org/node/70
.dds for PS/Corel : https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

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