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Improved visuals for Windows standalone executable

Submitted by lars on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 01:06
Improved theme for Windows standalone executable (XP)

The Windows standalone executable is a nice a simple way for Windows users to try out and use PyCAM. It offers almost all of PyCAM’s features (except for multi-core CPUs and distributed processing). But its user interface always looked a bit outdated, due to the missing Windows-stylish GTK theme.

This is now fixed – even though [Bad Link] currently [Bad Link] out of the box. But a few lines of code did it.

This is how it looked before:
gtk_default_theme_winxp.png
Pretty ugly, or?

After adding the MS-Windows theme for GTK to the standalone executable, it looks like this (for Windows XP):
gtk_windows_theme_winxp.png

The style also looks fine for Windows 7:
gtk_windows_theme_win7.png

Read the description of [Bad Link] for the technical details.

So if you are part of the majority of PyCAM users (75% choose Windows executables), I hope, you will enjoy the new look!

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