Having Icons in pure vector 100% of the time is an awful waste of CPU :) no matter how big/small they are in density. You should consider using caching them as bitmap at runtime per state you keep them firstly failing that convert them to pure bitmap (PNG/JPG) could also work as well, if you can get away with just JPG that is also a lot smoother and more perf gain, given there's no Alpha to deal with by Silverlight.
As for XAML ICON designers, any designer you can get a hold of who specialise in Icon design (desktop illustrators etc) are fine. Converting .AI/.EPS files to XAML is an easy task given Expression Blend has import capabilities for this kind of thing aswell. If you can't get one to convert ping me as i'd be curious to see why. From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of John OBrien Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:24 PM To: 'ozSilverlight' Subject: RE: xaml icons We ran into trouble with animated xaml icons, we were using hundreds of these on a map and it did consume some CPU. We switched to Jose's sprite method using a series of frames as a single png image with great results. If anyone is interested I made it into a reusable control: http://deepearth.codeplex.com/sourcecontrol/network/Show?projectName=deepearth&changeSetId=37658#584181 (I really should start blogging all this stuff...) John. From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Miguel Madero Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2010 12:54 PM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: xaml icons When using complex vector graphics, I think you should consider not only the size, but also the CPU impact it might have. I would hope that for small icons this won't be an issue. I don't have experience in this area, but it's something I would try to test/google before going with that approach. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:25 PM, John OBrien <j...@soulsolutions.com.au<mailto:j...@soulsolutions.com.au>> wrote: Icons are really time consuming for a graphic designer, I like this site: http://www.iconfinder.net<http://www.iconfinder.net/> as it has good quality free icons with a filter to show the ones allowed for commercial use. Even an API in there :) I started out thinking everything in Silverlight should be vector based XAML so it can scale to any size but found it way too difficult to create, I'm back to just using nice PNG images. That said if you get a kit of icons in a vector format then expression design should be able to convert them to XAML, when comparing filesizes remember that the xaml will be zipped. I do recommend comparing what the filesize will be in xaml vs PNG and whether you need them to scale beyond 128x128px or 64x64px size. John. From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com<mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com> [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com<mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com>] On Behalf Of Vishwanath Humpy Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2010 10:56 AM To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com<mailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com> Subject: xaml icons Does anyone know of any good free or paid resource for xaml icons? I can do them myself but I'm a bit slow and don't have a graphics designer by my side. I know there are plenty of converters, as well documented here, but you do need something to convert : http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/pages/WPFToolsAndControls.aspx I also had hopes for this visio -> xaml but it doesn't work on my machine : http://visioautomation.codeplex.com<http://visioautomation.codeplex.com/> Or I am on the wrong track, perhaps icons are best left as pngs and I should just invest in an icon library such as http://www.iconshock.com/ and forget about it ? [cid:image001.jpg@01CABF9F.2E8517A0]<http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline....@middle?> _______________________________________________ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com<mailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight -- Miguel A. Madero Reyes www.miguelmadero.com<http://www.miguelmadero.com> (blog) m...@miguelmadero.com<mailto:m...@miguelmadero.com>
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