Generating path language strings

2012-07-11 Thread Greg Keogh
Earlier this year someone pointed me to the Styled ListBox http://richapps.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/advanced-styling-wpf/ sample. I was quite impressed the clever trick of totally restyling the ListBox control and item templates into a list polygons. I managed to convert the control to

Re: Generating path language strings

2012-07-11 Thread Joseph Cooney
I usually use Inkscape and save as xaml. There is also a tool for scaling/manipulating paths, rather than nesting them inside a transform, which can be useful. Can provide a link if you want. Sent from my iPhone On 12/07/2012, at 10:23 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Earlier this year

RE: Generating path language strings

2012-07-11 Thread Shane Morris (Automatic Studio)
Expression Design has a larger range of vector drawing tools than Blend, and can export as XAML, or you can copy and paste the XAML. Keep an eye out for scaling though. Design has a habit of exporting XAML with an overall transform, which you could probably do without if you're manipulating

RE: Generating path language strings

2012-07-11 Thread Shane Morris (Automatic Studio)
Oh, Expression Design can also trace a bitmap to produce a vector which SOMETIMES works well. From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Shane Morris (Automatic Studio) Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2012 12:05 PM To: ozSilverlight

Re: Generating path language strings

2012-07-11 Thread Scott Barnes
If you're keen to trace mapping into vector than you're better of taking out the old cheque book and buying some ESRI love. As from memory they have all of this already in place and can allow you to suck in their maps in XAML form into your apps. I've only dabbled with it but getting the mapping