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Re: Is Crossplatform toolbar usable right now?

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Subject: Re: Is Crossplatform toolbar usable right now?
From: Brad Rhine <support at bradrhine dot com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:41:58 -0500
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On Jan 31, 2007, at 1:42 AM, Juan Pablo Garcia wrote:

I need to port a Mac OS X app to Windows and I´ve done a simple test that looks bad on Win.

By "looks bad", I assume you mean the icons themselves. On Mac OS X, you can use 8 bit masks for your icons, but Windows only support 1 bit for toolbar icons. You can easily make them look nice on the Mac or look nice on Windows, but to do both at the same time, it takes a bit more work. You'll need to keep two sets of icons and masks, one for Mac and one for Windows, and build your toolbars in code rather than in the IDE. So it takes some work, but it can be done.

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