Cosmetics

[carel]

Does anybody have tips on making an app more aesthetically pleasing? - I love the programming part, but really dislike getting all buttons lined up etc.

Is there, or is it possible to create a "template grid" to indicate text boxes go here, next button goes here, cancel goes here, description of this card goes here etc...

Thanks,

Carel

[makeshyft]

Color scheme is important, as well as the quality of your icons.....

I for one do not use ANY standard UI buttons, I design them graphically, and then tell the button to use the images.

Check out .... UI Cloud and you will find lots of really well designed inspirations. Take the time you need .... be patient.....and it will be worth it.

http://ui-cloud.com/

Cheers bro

[makeshyft]

As for template grid....yes....but you need something that will let you export "slices" of your page into individual files. Adoble PS and Fireworks has that functionality, but it still requires the manual work of bringing the slices into LC.

[carel]

Thanks Tom

[FourthWorld]

Carel, you may also find it helpful to turn on LiveCode's grid option - in LC's Preferences, see the "Grid spacing" option in the "Appearances" section.

You can set the grid spacing value there to just about any number, but I find the default of 2 to be too small to be very helpful; for me, 4 provides a good balance between convenient alignment and layout freedom.

[carel]

My grid does not show - not on my Mac or on Windows

[Klaus]

Because it is invisible

You will only "feel" the snapping to the grid when dragging controls (slowly) on the card.

[carel]

OK, Thank you - I get it... (Well not at first - I first went and checked my "show invisible objects" settings)