Hey everyone... sorry for not replying, I must have missed the email informing me that updates were posted to this thread...
In any case...
To: Hightower
I first thank you for your compliments. It does feel great hearing from someone that has been building poker tables, that our idea is a good one... very cool indeed.
Now, about the layout. I should probably download the latest TD2, since I haven't done that for a couple of months. I could then re-save my layout into the format the Corey has created that should make transfer of the layout easy to other computers.
Now, with my layout, it is very specific to my needs.. meaning, I had to manually adjust all the cells with Height and Width values, in order to guarantee that it fit properly on my 1024x768 LCD. I did not design it to be easily transported to other resolutions besides 1024x768 (sorry that it's a small res, but, the LCD that we had only supported this max resolution.. so, go with what you got).
To: ddonofrio
As far as the cells and their b/g colors. ALL cells on my layouts have invisible background.
I decided to create the colors/bg/images/logos in Photoshop, which allowed for very nice customization, and a final product that would simply be a 1024x768 background, that would fill the entire screen.
I then used TD2's layout screen to organize the invisible cells on top of that background. One great trick is to use bright background colors during the design phase. I frequently set the BG to green, black, blue, orange, etc... in order to "see" the boundaries of that cell (also borders could work too). Then, once you get the widths and heights setup properly, you can remove all the BG colors, and you should be left with the same layout, but invisible backgrounds, allowing your pre-designed background to "contain" the fields.
Please ask any further questions that this may have caused,.... and I'll try to do a better job of monitoring this post from here forward....