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[Panarchy]

Hi



Any ideas on how I could create the above mockup, for real?

I would like;

RAM - Display shows in log (bottom) - Open display system properties
Scheduled Tasks - Display shows in log - Open opens up the scheduled tasks control panel applet
Backup Directory - Display show which it will go to - Open opens it up in explorer
Check Raid - Checks if the Software RAID is healthy - Open opens up Disk Management

I thought of the idea, then I prtscn'd the XAMPP Control Panel for the mockup.

Please tell me if it is possible to do as shown in the mockup.

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

[WingedPanther]

It's possible. You'll probably need to use the Windows API heavily to do it, and may want to get a GUI toolkit to facilitate the GUI design.

[Panarchy]

I'll have to use the WinAPI?

Okay, well I've done the research;

Scheduled Tasks
http://msdn.microsof....01(VS.85).aspx

Disk Management
A Description of the Diskpart Command-Line Utility (CLI)
http://msdn.microsof....86(VS.85).aspx
OCTL_DISK_PERFORMANCE:
http://msdn.microsof....83(VS.85).aspx

RAM
http://msdn.microsof....89(VS.85).aspx

My question is, how do I link all the above into a GUI program like the mockup I created before?

Thanks in advance for any more help with this,

Panarchy

PS: The 'display' button on Disk Management should show if the drives are Healthy or not

[WingedPanther]

It really depends on how you're doing the GUI. Launching another program is just a system() call, but the GUI will depend heavily on what you're creating it with.

[Panarchy]

Visual Studio 2008
C++

Oh, and I'd prefer to use the ShellExecute() & CreateProcess() calls.

[WingedPanther]

I don't use Visual Studio, unfortunately. It looks like a basic form with a few buttons and a text area, though.

[Panarchy]

Well I don't mind doing it with gcc instead. As long as it works.

[WingedPanther]

If you use gcc, you're back to selecting the GUI toolkit.

[Panarchy]

I'd be happy to use any GUI toolkit, as long as it's free (or included with Visual Studio 2008), that is, free as an Open-Source project. Also needs to be able to run on any Windows 2003 & XP, without having to install anything extra.

So please for your example, use any GUI toolkit, as long as it works!

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

[WingedPanther]

If you have VS2008, I'd just do it in that. Since it has drag-and-drop, it shouldn't be hard. Then you'll have the onclick events for each button call the appropriate shellexecute().

[Panarchy]

Hmm... I'll check that out. Thanks

[hkp]

According to me you should use visual basic or c/c++ for that