[REL] Larger toolbar icons for Ant Movie Catalog

[bad4u]

I built a new toolbar for Sisimizi Game Catalog featuring larger, 32pixel wide icons using "Crystal Project 1.0" icons from http://www.everaldo.com/ and http://www.crystalxp.net/ . These icon themes are available free under LGPL license. I adapted few icons from game to movie related ones, so that it can be used for AMC, too.

Original AMC icon themes are of 16x16 pixels size and might be quite small on large widescreen monitors. 32x32 pixels means the size of new icons is about 4 times of the old ones. Simply copy the *.bmp file to your toolbars folder of your AMC installation, go to tools->preferences and choose "Crystal 32px" as new icon set.

Crystal 32px 1.1: http://www.bad4u.741.com/toolbars/Crystal%2032px.bmp (do NOT click, copy link into a NEW browser window !)

Maybe it's helpful for someone

[antp]

I guess that you will agree if I include these in AMC setup?
I just see one problem In the Import window, buttons are expecting 16 pixels only Same for Script Properties and Add Movie / Change Number. I should make them auto-adjust to image size...
I also see that I forgot to set the auto-size option on the statistics toolbar...

[bad4u]

I guess that you will agree if I include these in AMC setup?

Always

I just see one problem In the Import window, buttons are expecting 16 pixels only Same for Script Properties and Add Movie / Change Number. I should make them auto-adjust to image size...
I also see that I forgot to set the auto-size option on the statistics toolbar...

And few more on preferences (e.g. on files page). To be honest I didn't see these before, I should do more tests next time. But it needed more time than I expected to build the toolbar and I was glad it was finished. Sorry ^^

Now I saw that it is possible to turn on autosize for most of the buttons so that larger icons will fit, but it is not possible to resize these icons on the fly instead so that they fit to 16px, I guess ? It would probably look better if icons stay smaller for some buttons, but else I can live with the autosized buttons too.

PS: A 24px version is planned for when I find time for it. I tried simply resizing the 32px or 16px toolbars with some sharpening, but that doesn't look nice at all. So there will be a "real" 24px version later.

[bad4u]

I updated 32px toolbar to version 1.1, as I modified the "movie" icons. The original Xine icons looked quite ugly on toolbar backgrounds. Download link see first post on this thread, please.

[Wotan]

thanks a lot bad4u, i got a 24 inch widescreen (1920x1080) monitor and the new icons looks awesome!!

[antp]

Now I saw that it is possible to turn on autosize for most of the buttons so that larger icons will fit, but it is not possible to resize these icons on the fly instead so that they fit to 16px, I guess ? It would probably look better if icons stay smaller for some buttons, but else I can live with the autosized buttons too.

Different things are possible.
Resize on-the-fly could be done, but for that the buttons would need to use a different imagelist from the toolbars. That second image could be built from the main one by resizing.
But it would maybe be better to resize the buttons, but in a smart way:

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if you have

[ field ] [ button ]

it should become 

          +--------+
[ field ] | button |
          +--------+

and not

[ field ] +--------+
          | button |
          +--------+

[bad4u]

Resize on-the-fly could be done, but for that the buttons would need to use a different imagelist from the toolbars. That second image could be built from the main one by resizing.

Unfortunately I did not yet really understand how your imagelists (and imagelists in general) work from looking at the sources. I should search for some more infos to get a clue on it, I guess.

Your second idea might look nicer, but would probably need even more changes, e.g. the [field] needs to be adjusted, too, or at least there must be enough space above and below to fit for larger icons.

If I don't find any better solution, I probably just set some static 16px icons for these few buttons on SGC

[JCSullivan]

Maybe it's helpful for someone :)

You bet they are. Thanks, nice job.