Logic Gui 3.1 Released

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jsp(Posted 2008) [#1]
Logic Gui Version 3.1 is released

Those who don't know Logic Gui yet, it's an easy to use, feature rich visual Gui Designer and source code creator. There is a free and a full version available (including help)!

Did you ever spent too much time in trying to find the right size and position of your gadgets?
What was the correct parent connection or how could you implement a second language...
All this and a lot more can be done with Logic Gui and it is just fun instead of a boring job.

Major improvements of the new version:

Compatible with the new commands available in MaxGuiEx
- New Label Separator, now able to work vertical and horizontal
- Gadgets drawn transparent in the form when also done by MaxGuiEx
- You can color now a window background
- Set tooltips to gadgets
- Use window max size or pixmap fit2 properties
- Switch on/off Vista theme as supported by MaxGuiEx
- Make use of panel and window alpha
- Use pixmaps for buttons
- Icon support for menus

Media Manager
- Overview of your used media (texts, pixmaps, iconstrips....)
- IncBin your external used media, if you want all with one click
- Edit your media without searching for them, call your favorite editor

SmartButtons 1.2 (module and editor)
- New Trigger: Mouse wheel up and down and timertick
- New Actions: ShowTip, StartTimer, StopTimer, RunActions, ExecuteFunction, Blur, HighLight, Color, SetSpinnerPicture, SpinnerForward, SpinnerBackward
- New Regions: Enter SmartButton, Leave SmartButton, SmartButton Timer and Creation

LogicXML 1.2
- updated to reflect changes for MaxGuiEx

Distribute gadgets now supports also grouped gadgets

and some more...

There are some video tutorials added since the last release, if you didn't saw them yet in an older post, here you go:
http://jsp.logiczone.de/Videos/Calculator.htm
http://jsp.logiczone.de/Videos/Layer.htm
http://jsp.logiczone.de/Videos/TabSplitScroll.htm

[EDIT] Now new
http://jsp.logiczone.de/Videos/MultiLanguage.htm


Forum discussion of SmartButtons: here
Forum discussion of version 2.0: here
Forum discussion of version 1.0: here

Logic Gui Home Page: http://jsp.LogicZone.de and Forum for latest News, Tutorials...


z80jim(Posted 2008) [#2]
I see that at least the older ones are free, I can't find where it says if 3.1 is... can you please give me the source code for the latest free one so I can compile it for mac users? I have a mac I need this so bad lol but it won't work :(


jsp(Posted 2008) [#3]
There is a free executable version you can download and use, but the source is not free, sorry.
Actually i have compiled Logic Gui some time ago on a mac, but the user interface and MaxGui for the mac was too different that it worked nice. I hope that the new MaxGuiEx will make at least the code more cross platform so i can give it a second try.
Nevertheless users of Logic Gui have reported that they used it also for creating mac forms, the source can be used for any platform of course. If i remember correctly even running Logic Gui in Parallels has worked, which makes the data exchange may a bit easier.


z80jim(Posted 2008) [#4]
why can't the source be free if the finished product is? :(


jsp(Posted 2008) [#5]
I know, it's a shame, but probably the tiny difference between open source and freeware.


z80jim(Posted 2008) [#6]
grrrrrrrrrr...


jsp(Posted 2008) [#7]
A new video tutorial is available here:

http://jsp.logiczone.de/Videos/MultiLanguage.htm

It covers the Multi Language Support.

Add / Change / Delete Languages at any time and Logic Gui will do the hard work for you.
Change the current language of your application with a single click while it is running.
You can even import languages! The problem with foreign languages is, that you may not know the correct word or spelling. So if you decide to go for a multi language application, it is may wise to have somebody who talks the language as mother tongue. In Europe we have most of our help manuals in six or seven languages. This in mind i don't think you will be able to know all of them by hard. The idea is now to spread the program together with the language xml file and let people/user fill in the right words. You can then collect from various sources and import all pending languages without extra work. As the xml file contains also the gadget 'comment' of Logic Gui you can give extra information for best results.