Tool Bar: Text Buttons instead of icons (optional)

[mostly harmless]

Instead of the icons in the tool bar which I never use I`d prefer to have text-buttons.
That means buttons that all look alike and have text discribing the function instead of a symbol.

This should be optional since not everybody will like it this way but I would and maybe also a few other users.

[Clo]

mostly harmless

Hello !

• The tool bar provides buttons, anyway.
- Hence, just draw a bitmap skin having texts instead of images, following THESE INSTRUCTIONS…

- However, I think that the size of each “text-icon” must be large enough,
or else that could lead to display quite incomprehensible abbreviations…

KR
Claude
Clo

[XnTriq]

Just a couple of days ago I made me a “skin” which does exactly what you're looking for, mostly harmless:

1. Create a sub-directory in %ProgramFiles%\XnView\skins\ and call it “null”.
2. Copy & paste the following text into Notepad and save it as %ProgramFiles%\XnView\skins\null\info.txt:

   Code: Select all

   label = "null (Interface » Toolbar » Buttons » Show button text)"
   width = 1
   height = 1
   browser = 0
   auto = 1
   version = 3
   main32 = 0
   browser32 = 0
   tabtree = 0
   icninfo = 0
   imbar = 0
   jpgbar = 0

   Don't forget to remove all the trailing spaces phpBB puts at the end of every line/paragraph.
3. Download 1z53rwm.gif (34×1 pixels), convert it to “Windows Bitmap” format and save it as %ProgramFiles%\XnView\skins\null\main.bmp.
4. Restart XnView and go to Tools » Options....
5. Enable the Show button text setting (Interface » Toolbar » Buttons) and select “null” as your skin (Interface » Toolbar » Skin).

[Clo]

XnTriq

Hello !

• Clever but a bit “lazy” solution… Using the buttons labels has a big disadvantage :

- In the average, the labels are wider than the normal icons, hence you can place less ones in a bar
(without the hellish extra-menu_list when that overflows).

• That I proposed above is a real skin, and I drew a quick-made sample (just the first items and the last one),
below as 37×41 pixels per item (same size than a skin of mine with images) :



• If some users requested such a “Text-skin”, I could draw one on demand, according to the users' wishes
(not too small, though, like I said above).
Note : I left the temporary marking off I use to draw skins

KR
Claude
Clo

[XnTriq]

• Clever but a bit “lazy” solution… Using the buttons labels has a big disadvantage :

- In the average, the labels are wider than the normal icons, hence you can place less ones in a bar
(without the hellish extra-menu_list when that overflows).

Right, Clo. My “null” skin (if one can call it a skin) was meant as a quick-and-dirty solution or a “proof of concept” kind of experiment.
It would only make sense, if the toolbars were wrapable (as suggested by JohnFredC).

• 
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[Clo]

mostly harmless

XnTriq

Hello !

• Just to test, I drew a text-skin as 35² per item, it's really the minimum size…

• Available to download HERE.

- Have fun !

KR
Claude
Clo

[XnTriq]

• Available to download HERE.

http://membres.lycos.fr/charries/icotext_en.zip » Page non trouvée
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/charries/download/icotext_en.zip

[Clo]

XnTriq

Hi !

Ouuupps ! I pressed the wrong button in my editor (which writes preset strings at will in that way…)

Thanks, it's corrected now !

KR
Claude
Clo