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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MJEggertson" data-source="post: 76182" data-attributes="member: 845">VERY nice. A great improvement, and its looking even more promising. I haven't put it through the ringer yet (maybe 10 min of playing), so this will deal mostly with interface, not bugs. Keep in mind, I'm criticizing heavily because I really like this program, and I want to see it finished, and done the best it can. This is meant to be contsructive, as one designer to another.One (maybe two) things. The app does not appear in the task bar, with the exception of Step 6. This is somewhat annoying if you're mutitasking. Say you have a word processor, a spread sheet, and maybe a few character sheets open with details about the town you're working on. Having, perhaps, the Summary Screen load up first, which then presents the dialogues modally would be a good solution. Then clicking on the Summary button on the task bar will send you to the prompt since its a modal frame.The windows are all compatible with 800x600. Good. They don't make the 640x480 displays, but hey, I'm guilty of ignoring that too. There comes a time when we eventually have to stop working for low end displays.What would be nice though is if all the prompts are the same size. This is especially useful if you want to hammer back a few panes to change something that you realized is wrong. Having to track the back/forward buttons on each frame is not good. This may cause lots of empty space though for some of the frames.A not so attractive solution would be having the frames track how they were opened. If they were opened with the next button, have the mouse moved to the new frame's next button. If they opened with the back button, move the mouse to the new back button. One of these should be implemented, I believe.Labeling the steps as 1 of 8, 2 of 8, also would be a good idea that will give more feedback as to how far progressed you are.Steps 6 and 7. These are still rather intimidating. I think you had a great idea on Step 8 when you used the tab control. Using a similar layout in Steps 6 and 7 may reduce the size of these frames, and go a long way to maintaining a consistent size on all the frames.Did I mention the vetical scrollbars that you use with the merc groups, et al? VERY good idea. I love how they change in width with the number you enter. This is wonderful. Don't change this. Very intuitive, I think, and VERY effective. It is very space efficient, and very easy to use. The vertical sliders also really present a consistent feel to the last few frames. If they all had similar layout (size, tab controls, placement of the main buttons, etc), the app will look really solid and professional.Copious use of slider controls. Also perfect. Try to keep away from numbers as much as possilbe. You've done an excellent job at this.There are my ideas for asthetics and presentation. I haven't found any bugs yet, it looks like you've spent alot of time on this. And talk about quick! Wasn't it just two weeks ago you posted the first one? Good job!Feel free to email me if you have any ideas to bounce around, etc. I've worked with VB a bit, among other languages.-Mike</blockquote>

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