Does anyone know of any good free or paid resource for xaml icons?nbsp; 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 :
Icons are really time consuming for a graphic designer, I like this site:
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 J
I started out thinking everything in Silverlight should be vector based XAML
I've done Xaml icons in the past. I break out Expression Design and then cut
and paste them into Blend to get xaml versions.
Embrace your inner Devigner. Don't resist it, or be ashamed. We're a rare
breed. We're the bridge between those who design but shall not code and
those coders with UI
Don't get me wrong; I love being a devigner and wouldn't have it any
other way.
I -do- hate the word devigner though. It makes us sound like a geeky
zealot or something.
Carl.
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[mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of
Fair enough. :)
Coin a better one then? It's actually not too bad, if you consider the
alternative of Deseloper. Perhaps there's a more accurate word that's not a
hybrid of two others.
I find most people have both design and develop skills but sit in different
spots along the Designer to
Hey all,
I'm writing a unit test (MS's Silverlight Unit Test framework) and am
wanting to simulate pressing a button by using ToggleButtonAutomationPeer.
I've no problems with the code one I have the instance of the button, but
I'm having problems figuring out how to get a particular button from
openclipart.org has some good images in SVG format which you can convert to
xaml. The images are a bit hit and miss, some are great, some not so much.
Joseph
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Vishwanath Humpy vhu...@rediffmail.comwrote:
Does anyone know of any good free or paid resource for
Something useful is to do Linq Queries.
from b in element.GetChildrenButton
where b.Name == 'someName' b.Tag = myExpectedValue
select b
You could even restrict it a bit, to discard other buttons in other places
(like toggle buttons in the header).
from r in dg.GetChildrenDataGridRow()
from c
While being able to scale vector icons might seem like an advantage, in my
experience if you plan to use icons at various sizes it is hard to produce
one icon that has the right level of detail to look right at various sizes.
Therefore, whether vector or bitmap, chances are you'll be designing
With the class that I send you you can use the Extension method GetChildren
(for UIElements), use the recursive overload to find a ToggleButton, it
should look something like
datagrid.GetChildrenToggleButton(true);
This will return an IEnumerable of all the ToggleButtons in the DataGrid.
This
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:
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
Expression Design's export to Photoshop PSD is awesome too. I've been
able to knock up vector images in Design, export to Photoshop, tweak and
save in ico/jpg with great success.
Expression rocks.
Carl.
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That is a really good point Scott, my prototypes are out of date as they
were back in Silverlight2 pre-bitmap caching. I bet they would perform
significantly better now. Not sure how useful jpg icons are unless you plan
on knowing the exact colour/gradient of the background in advance.
From:
Agree,
Go for the resource that you can get easily - Icon libs rock anyways... how
many hours can you waste looking through awesome icons when you should be
writing code... I've crapped hundreds of hours away :)
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Strange, Not getting a DataGridRowsPresenter or any children from the
datagrid in the unit test. I think I need to look at what data is in it, and
somehow mock it (so it's still a unit test and not an integration test). The
viewmodel data object its binding to is pretty complicated. I just want
Lots of great advice.nbsp; I don't think I will contemplate doing icons as
xaml any longer for the variety of reasons mentioned.
I am curious though.nbsp; When it comes to the performance issue, what is the
difference between the rest of my xaml UI and the icons?nbsp; Is it the case
that
From memory the new text rendering engine makes use of the OS level to help
render that out visually (i think it actually uses clear type or a subset of it
anyway). When you do a process path approach, you're not using the text
renderer at all and are essentially generating a vector shape that
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