Expression Blend/Sketchflow training in Brisbane on March 17.
Hi all, quick plug for a 1-day course I'm teaching in Brisbane on March 17th. Prototyping Using Blend 3 and SketchFlow: http://www.itts.com.au/docs/tech/OUT-SCH-MS50299%20-%20Morris.pdf Cheers, Shane Shane Morris | http://www.automaticstudio.com.au/ Automatic Studio | mailto:sh...@automaticstudio.com.au sh...@automaticstudio.com.au | +61 438 818 888 ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
RE: xaml icons
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 different versions of the same icon for different sizes. Shane Shane Morris | http://www.automaticstudio.com.au/ Automatic Studio | mailto:sh...@automaticstudio.com.au sh...@automaticstudio.com.au | +61 438 818 888 From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Cooney Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2010 2:37 PM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: xaml icons 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.com wrote: 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 ? http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/sign atureline@middle? ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
RE: Sketchflow for ASP.Net
The reality is most mockup tools either don't produce target platform code (Balsamiq) or produced relatively useless target platform code (Axure). If you have Sketchflow skills already then I'd consider sticking with it. One thing that will annoy you though is that sketchflow doesn't inherently allow for scrolling web 'pages'. If you don't have existing Sketchflow skills you need to consider that these 'rich' prototyping tools (Sketchflow and Catalyst) have pro's and con's: - Con: harder to learn and less productive than lightweight tools like Balsamiq - Pro: Able to take prototypes to a much richer level of interactivity (and fidelity) - giving them an advantage for really rich UIs (like you'd design for WPF or Silverlight.) Shane Shane Morris | http://www.automaticstudio.com.au/ Automatic Studio | mailto:sh...@automaticstudio.com.au sh...@automaticstudio.com.au | +61 438 818 888 From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Mitch Denny Sent: Wednesday, 28 April 2010 4:02 PM To: ozSilverlight Subject: RE: Sketchflow for ASP.Net Who says that the mock-up technology needs to be the same as the implementation technology. That would be like saying using PowerPoint for a mock-up is in appropriate because it isn't based on WPF/Silverlight/HTML/Flash whatever. Regards Mitch Denny Readify | Chief Technology Officer Suite 408 Life.Lab Building | 198 Harbour Esplanade | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: +61 414 610 141 | E: mailto:mitch.de...@readify.net mitch.de...@readify.net | W: http://www.readify.net/ www.readify.net From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Mark Sent: Wednesday, 28 April 2010 1:46 PM To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Subject: Sketchflow for ASP.Net We have a Silverlight application and the boss likes using SketchFlow to mock up stuff. We are now looking at writing an ASP.Net app and he wants to know if he can use SketchFlow to create the mock pages. I've not looked into it, but AFAIK it's XAML only so whilst he can create pages for demo, we can't reuse for our web pages. Is that correct? Is there another tool? I'd hope to use ASP.net MVC framework if that makes a difference. Cheers Mark ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
RE: Bob Muglias Steve Balmers statements on committment to Silverlight
To my mind all this noise re Silverlight v HTML5 does not really affect the Silverlight v Flash argument. The reasons to choose Flash or Silvelright are pretty much the same today as they were last week. The only change is a slight dip in confidence in MS's commitment to further innovation going forward, I guess. But for an organisation that made its platform decision based on what exists today rather than what might be coming, I feel like nothing much has changed? Shane From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] on behalf of Grant Maw [grant@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 2 November 2010 11:19 AM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: Bob Muglias Steve Balmers statements on committment to Silverlight And there'll be a lot more like Barry if this isn't dealt with quickly, and with finality. We have a client who has invested heavily in a SL app at our recommendation. It took us a very long time to convince them that SL was the right tool for the job, and even after all that we are still getting the why didn't we use Flash argument flaring up from time to time. This latest development has the potential to make us look pretty darned foolish when our customers get wind of it. I believed at the outset that we made the right call, and I still do, but now, just as SL is getting wider acceptance, things like this happen and as a result we are going to have to go through all the old arguments once again with a new app that is proposed for next year. We have invested heavily in SL, and so have our customers, on the premise that the platform would be around for the long haul. Statements like Muglia's, followed further by a clarification that is more spin than substance, and a meaningless statement from Ballmer do very little to put the cat back into the bag. Hard facts, and more detail about future development of the product (and it's tooling) over the next 5 years would go a long way to restoring confidence. On 2 November 2010 09:18, Barry Beattie barry.beat...@gmail.commailto:barry.beat...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's at this stage that I will unsubscribe from this list and give up on Silverlight for the moment as irrelivant, perhaps checking back later. I was hoping SL would be able to produce worthwhile interfaces to the clunky rubbish found in products like Dynamics CRM but I just can't see the buy-in from that division to do much with SL and those products. Bye all. Have fun. Barry Beattie On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Chris Anderson christheco...@gmail.commailto:christheco...@gmail.com wrote: It's amusing to see how many times Steve Balmer name dropped 'Silverlight' in his post :). Backpedalling ahoy! My concern from the beginning has specifically been with the phrase “Our Silverlight strategy and focus going forward has shifted. Bob says that's not a negative statement in his post, but I disagree. Microsoft shifted their strategy away from Windows Mobile, and look what happened with it - practically nothing for years. After Microsoft released IE6 their strategy shifted - again work on that product halted for years. It wasn't like either of them were perfect, and couldn't have done with more work! It was easier to brush off Scott Barnes' tweets as those of an ex-softie that *might not* have the current full picture and strategic insight of Microsoft, but harder when the controversy stems from the current president of the Server and Tools division. You could say that it was simply a bad choice of words, but added to Scott Barnes' tips starts painting a bad picture for Silverlight's future. Stating that their strategy has shifted sends the wrong message to CTOs, and creates the PR nightmare we are all faced with now. Personally, I still have faith in Silverlight and its potential (both current and future), and evidence showed that Microsoft shares it too (LightSwitch, Windows Phone 7, etc). I just hope that Microsoft continues to see that potential through before chucking it on the backburner, and doesn't abuse that faith. Currently they have a rather demoralised community, and it's going to take a lot to prop it back up. Because those of us promoting Silverlight will have a lot more work to do to now promoting the platform. If one good thing comes from this controversy, it is that the community has spoken, and it will *not* be happy with a shift in strategy. Maybe, just maybe, that will impact positively internally at Microsoft. Chris On 2 November 2010 07:19, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.commailto:winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Man do you ever sleep? Haha you seem to operate in US time. Bobs post seems to be getting some interesting replies... Sent from my iPad On 02/11/2010, at 5:28 AM, Jose Fajardo jose.faja...@cynergysystems.commailto:jose.faja...@cynergysystems.com wrote: Here's Microsoft's official statements Bob Muglia has posted
RE: Control thumbnails
A processor-intensive way might be to set up your grid with 4 equally spaced rows and columns (each Size: 1*). Wrap each control in viewbox, then when the user hits the key, place each control (viewbox) in a table cell, sized to fit the cell. Downsides: - processor intensive - The controls are still 'active' - might not be what you want - Scaling down a control to 1/16 its original size is likely to result in a squashed-bug-like appearance if you don't strip out detail Shanemo -Original Message- From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Monday, 6 December 2010 4:55 PM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: Control thumbnails You could look at the wrappanel in the Silverlight toolkit. That would handle your wrapping in a 4 x 4 grid (if you limit the width). If you want to get fancy you could write your own custom control, basing it on a Panel. That way you can have full control over how your panel displays its content. Thats assuming the wrap panel doesn't already do what you want. Also not sure if WPF has an equivalent. I'd assume so but if not you could get the source from the SL version/toolkit. cheers, Stephen On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: This question is related to Silverlight and WPF, as I may need to use this technique in both sorts of apps. My app's main Grid parent control can contain different types of child controls that display data in various ways. I internally maintain a 16-deep List of the children, I push a new child onto the top and make it visible, the others are pushed down and hidden and the oldest one drops off the end when it's full. So I effectively have an MRU list of up to 16 child controls available. When the user hits a hotkey I want make all of the children visible and tile them in a nice 4 x 4 arrangement as thumbnails. I'm just not sure what the best mechanism is to achieve this. At first I thought I'd do it manually: centre-position and scale transform each child to create a fake tiled arrangement and maintain it on size changes. Before I do this manual coding, I thought I'd ask for ideas about better techniques. Cheers, Greg ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
RE: Control thumbnails
Hey, one more crack like that about Blend and I'll withdraw all suggestions! :-) -Original Message- From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, 6 December 2010 10:32 PM To: 'ozSilverlight' Subject: RE: Control thumbnails Shane is a mind-reader. I was looking for the control that auto-sizes its contents in various ways, it's the ViewBox of course. I'll wrap each child in a ViewBox. My parent Grid can have 4 x 4 cells, and in normal display the top visible control will have row and col span 4 with Stretch=None. In tiled mode I'll show all children in a specific cell with Stretch=Uniform. Half an hour later: My experiments show it's starting to work, but there are some strange sizing behaviours like the Viewbox isn't filling the Grid. I'll look at it in the morning with a fresh mind. ADDENDUM: Jack, I received your message just before sending. 'Fluid Layout' is something I'd forgotten about completely. I'd rather go to the dentist than use Blend, but I'll try to figure out what it's doing behind the scenes and see if I can steal the code for a snazzy transition. Cheers, Greg ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Contract - Expression Blend Visual/Interactive designer
Hi all, I have a contact looking for a visual designer with Expression Blend skills. Interaction design a bonus. Sydney based. If you're interested get in touch and I'll pass your details on. Shane Shane Morris | Automatic Studiohttp://automaticstudio.com.au/ | sh...@automaticstudio.com.aumailto:sh...@automaticstudio.com.au | twitter.com/shanemohttp://twitter.com/shanemo ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Re: Skills
Damn straight! You don't see me coding do you? ... Well, much. Shane Shane Morris | Automatic Studio | sh...@automaticstudio.com.aumailto:sh...@automaticstudio.com.au | +61 438 818 888 On 01/03/2012, at 3:49 PM, Jordan Knight jak...@gmail.commailto:jak...@gmail.com wrote: Leave designing up to designers :p Sent from my iPad On 01/03/2012, at 3:45 PM, Jasim Schluter write_2_ja...@hotmail.commailto:write_2_ja...@hotmail.com wrote: All agree that today’s Silverlight Developer is tomorrows XAML developer? Are there any skills that tomorrows’ XAML developer will need that Silverlight developers are missing? Like Metro design skills? Inside out knowledge of the Windows 8 API / Win 8 Phone API? Asyn Coding chro Skills? nous Ideas? (and is the answer to this question the answer to the question, “WTF do we do with all these Silverlight Usergroups?”.) From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Miguel Madero Sent: Monday, 20 February 2012 6:28 AM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: Skills And please not everyone say Javascipt! By that I assume that's already on the top of your list and you're looking for something in addition to it. Many of the JS frameworks are definitely. NodeJS and CoffeeScript are also interesting from a dev POV. As a UX HTML5, CSS3, SAAS. Personally I got hook recently with Lean Startup and product development. Also, some people might hate it, but I think there're lots of opportunities for iPhone development, a good place to start would be Hello iPhonehttp://docs.xamarin.com/ios/getting_started/hello_iphone Hope this helps. Miguel A. Madero Reyes www.miguelmadero.comhttp://www.miguelmadero.com (blog) m...@miguelmadero.commailto:m...@miguelmadero.com On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Jasim Schluter write_2_ja...@hotmail.commailto:write_2_ja...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, I’ve been playing with Silverlight since Silverlight 2 beta, and have just finished a 1 year 7 month contract doing UX work in Silverlight. Now that I have a chance to lift my head up and ask: “What skills this group are they adding to their toolbox at the moment?” And please not everyone say Javascipt! Cheers, Jasim Schluter Jasim Schluter | Blender3DLive | www.Blender3DLive.comhttp://www.Blender3DLive.com | SilverLighter| mailmailto:cont...@blender3dlive.com | sitehttp://www.blender3dlive.com/ 6/166 Pacific Highway | North Sydney NSW 2060 | Australia | +61 400511241tel:%2B61%20400511241 m ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Re: Skills
What? My glasses not square enough for ya? ;-) Shane Morris | Automatic Studio | sh...@automaticstudio.com.aumailto:sh...@automaticstudio.com.au | +61 438 818 888 On 01/03/2012, at 4:17 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.commailto:step...@perthprojects.com wrote: I think he meant *real* designers, Shane. :p On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Shane Morris (Automatic Studio) sh...@automaticstudio.com.aumailto:sh...@automaticstudio.com.au wrote: Damn straight! You don't see me coding do you? ... Well, much. Shane Shane Morris | Automatic Studio | sh...@automaticstudio.com.aumailto:sh...@automaticstudio.com.au | +61 438 818 888tel:%2B61%20438%20818%20888 On 01/03/2012, at 3:49 PM, Jordan Knight jak...@gmail.commailto:jak...@gmail.com wrote: Leave designing up to designers :p Sent from my iPad On 01/03/2012, at 3:45 PM, Jasim Schluter write_2_ja...@hotmail.commailto:write_2_ja...@hotmail.com wrote: All agree that today’s Silverlight Developer is tomorrows XAML developer? Are there any skills that tomorrows’ XAML developer will need that Silverlight developers are missing? Like Metro design skills? Inside out knowledge of the Windows 8 API / Win 8 Phone API? Asyn Coding chro Skills? nous Ideas? (and is the answer to this question the answer to the question, “WTF do we do with all these Silverlight Usergroups?”.) From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Miguel Madero Sent: Monday, 20 February 2012 6:28 AM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: Skills And please not everyone say Javascipt! By that I assume that's already on the top of your list and you're looking for something in addition to it. Many of the JS frameworks are definitely. NodeJS and CoffeeScript are also interesting from a dev POV. As a UX HTML5, CSS3, SAAS. Personally I got hook recently with Lean Startup and product development. Also, some people might hate it, but I think there're lots of opportunities for iPhone development, a good place to start would be Hello iPhonehttp://docs.xamarin.com/ios/getting_started/hello_iphone Hope this helps. Miguel A. Madero Reyes www.miguelmadero.comhttp://www.miguelmadero.com (blog) m...@miguelmadero.commailto:m...@miguelmadero.com On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Jasim Schluter write_2_ja...@hotmail.commailto:write_2_ja...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, I’ve been playing with Silverlight since Silverlight 2 beta, and have just finished a 1 year 7 month contract doing UX work in Silverlight. Now that I have a chance to lift my head up and ask: “What skills this group are they adding to their toolbox at the moment?” And please not everyone say Javascipt! Cheers, Jasim Schluter Jasim Schluter | Blender3DLive | www.Blender3DLive.comhttp://www.Blender3DLive.com | SilverLighter| mailmailto:cont...@blender3dlive.com | sitehttp://www.blender3dlive.com/ 6/166 Pacific Highway | North Sydney NSW 2060 | Australia | +61 400511241tel:%2B61%20400511241 m ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
Re: Skills
Freak Shane Morris | Automatic Studio | sh...@automaticstudio.com.aumailto:sh...@automaticstudio.com.au | +61 438 818 888 On 01/03/2012, at 4:31 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.commailto:scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote: What if you can do both though? w00t. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Shane Morris (Automatic Studio) sh...@automaticstudio.com.aumailto:sh...@automaticstudio.com.au wrote: Damn straight! You don't see me coding do you? ... Well, much. Shane Shane Morris | Automatic Studio | sh...@automaticstudio.com.aumailto:sh...@automaticstudio.com.au | +61 438 818 888tel:%2B61%20438%20818%20888 On 01/03/2012, at 3:49 PM, Jordan Knight jak...@gmail.commailto:jak...@gmail.com wrote: Leave designing up to designers :p Sent from my iPad On 01/03/2012, at 3:45 PM, Jasim Schluter write_2_ja...@hotmail.commailto:write_2_ja...@hotmail.com wrote: All agree that today’s Silverlight Developer is tomorrows XAML developer? Are there any skills that tomorrows’ XAML developer will need that Silverlight developers are missing? Like Metro design skills? Inside out knowledge of the Windows 8 API / Win 8 Phone API? Asyn Coding chro Skills? nous Ideas? (and is the answer to this question the answer to the question, “WTF do we do with all these Silverlight Usergroups?”.) From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Miguel Madero Sent: Monday, 20 February 2012 6:28 AM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: Skills And please not everyone say Javascipt! By that I assume that's already on the top of your list and you're looking for something in addition to it. Many of the JS frameworks are definitely. NodeJS and CoffeeScript are also interesting from a dev POV. As a UX HTML5, CSS3, SAAS. Personally I got hook recently with Lean Startup and product development. Also, some people might hate it, but I think there're lots of opportunities for iPhone development, a good place to start would be Hello iPhonehttp://docs.xamarin.com/ios/getting_started/hello_iphone Hope this helps. Miguel A. Madero Reyes www.miguelmadero.comhttp://www.miguelmadero.com (blog) m...@miguelmadero.commailto:m...@miguelmadero.com On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Jasim Schluter write_2_ja...@hotmail.commailto:write_2_ja...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, I’ve been playing with Silverlight since Silverlight 2 beta, and have just finished a 1 year 7 month contract doing UX work in Silverlight. Now that I have a chance to lift my head up and ask: “What skills this group are they adding to their toolbox at the moment?” And please not everyone say Javascipt! Cheers, Jasim Schluter Jasim Schluter | Blender3DLive | www.Blender3DLive.comhttp://www.Blender3DLive.com | SilverLighter| mailmailto:cont...@blender3dlive.com | sitehttp://www.blender3dlive.com/ 6/166 Pacific Highway | North Sydney NSW 2060 | Australia | +61 400511241tel:%2B61%20400511241 m ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
RE: Animating an image
Silverlight 5 can flow between text boxes. I forget the tag. From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, 25 June 2012 10:12 AM To: 'ozSilverlight' Subject: RE: Animating an image Shane et al, after considering the structure of my app I had to create the animations and storyboard for the help icon in code. I have a base class for all of my controls containing the help icon, so it's convenient to put the clump of ugly code in there. However, the result is quite nice as the icon pulsates up and down as you mouse over. Then I remembered I forgot something else about Silverlight ... there are no document classes (FlowDocument, etc). I was going to format the help text as nice documents, but I'll have to find another way. I think my choices are limited to TextBlock and Run for formatting. What else is there? Greg ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
RE: Storyboard crash
Don't ask me what's wrong, but the way I would get around it is to name the Transforms you want to manipulate and address them by name. Grid x:Name=LayoutRoot Grid.Resources Storyboard x:Key=StorySpinout Duration=0:0:1.0 BeginTime=0:0:0.2 DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName=Child0 Storyboard.TargetProperty=Angle From=90 To=0 DoubleAnimation.EasingFunction BackEase EasingMode=EaseOut Amplitude=0.5/ /DoubleAnimation.EasingFunction /DoubleAnimation DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName=Child1 Storyboard.TargetProperty=ScaleX From=0.0 To=1.0/ DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName=Child1 Storyboard.TargetProperty=ScaleY From=0.0 To=1.0/ /Storyboard /Grid.Resources comn:WidgetHelpControl x:Name=helpCtl comn:WidgetHelpControl.RenderTransform TransformGroup RotateTransform x:Name=Child0 Angle=90 CenterX=200 CenterY=200 / ScaleTransform x:Name=Child1 CenterX=200 CenterY=200 ScaleX=0.0 ScaleY=0.0/ /TransformGroup /comn:WidgetHelpControl.RenderTransform /comn:WidgetHelpControl /Grid Shane From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, 25 June 2012 4:02 PM To: 'ozSilverlight' Subject: Storyboard crash Folks, in the XAML and code below I'm getting the crash Cannot resolve TargetProperty RenderTransform.Children[0].Angle on specified object. It all looks correct to me, can anyone see what's wrong? This code was copied from a WPF app where it's working fine and creates a nice spinout effect on a control. In my SL4 app it dies -- Greg var spinout = (Storyboard)grid.Resources[StorySpinout]; spinout.Begin(); Grid x:Name=LayoutRoot Grid.Resources Storyboard x:Key=StorySpinout Duration=0:0:1.0 BeginTime=0:0:0.2 DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName=helpCtl Storyboard.TargetProperty=RenderTransform.Children[0].Angle From=90 To=0 DoubleAnimation.EasingFunction BackEase EasingMode=EaseOut Amplitude=0.5/ /DoubleAnimation.EasingFunction /DoubleAnimation DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName=helpCtl Storyboard.TargetProperty=RenderTransform.Children[1].ScaleX From=0.0 To=1.0/ DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName=helpCtl Storyboard.TargetProperty=RenderTransform.Children[1].ScaleY From=0.0 To=1.0/ /Storyboard /Grid.Resources comn:WidgetHelpControl x:Name=helpCtl comn:WidgetHelpControl.RenderTransform TransformGroup RotateTransform Angle=90 CenterX=200 CenterY=200 / ScaleTransform CenterX=200 CenterY=200 ScaleX=0.0 ScaleY=0.0/ /TransformGroup /comn:WidgetHelpControl.RenderTransform /comn:WidgetHelpControl /Grid ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
RE: Generating path language strings
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 complex forms. shane From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Cooney Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2012 11:42 AM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: Generating path language strings 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.netmailto:g...@mira.net wrote: Earlier this year someone pointed me to the Styled ListBoxhttp://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 Silverlight, but it was a pain to convert the triggers into visual states, remove other non-WPF properties, and I took out some of the animations as being overkill. The polygon shapes are defined with path language strings which are appallingly difficult to write and read when they get complicated. Here is the shape of the US state of New Mexico for example (a very simple one): F1 M 310.903,289.889L 228.569,281.556L 215.569,377.222L 228.903,378.222L 229.569,371.556L 252.903,373.556L 252.903,370.556L 304.236,375.889L 310.903,289.889 Z I will soon need to create paths for Australian states, Melbourne suburbs and other arbitrary artistic shapes and I was wondering how to do this. I suppose the states and suburbs are in public government sites somewhere that I can't find yet (and they're probably in the wrong format for me). What about generating paths for shapes of my own? Is there some tool that can help me draw pretty shapes and get path strings for them? Blend? Greg ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
RE: Generating path language strings
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 Subject: RE: Generating path language strings 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 complex forms. shane From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com]mailto:[mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Cooney Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2012 11:42 AM To: ozSilverlight Subject: Re: Generating path language strings 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.netmailto:g...@mira.net wrote: Earlier this year someone pointed me to the Styled ListBoxhttp://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 Silverlight, but it was a pain to convert the triggers into visual states, remove other non-WPF properties, and I took out some of the animations as being overkill. The polygon shapes are defined with path language strings which are appallingly difficult to write and read when they get complicated. Here is the shape of the US state of New Mexico for example (a very simple one): F1 M 310.903,289.889L 228.569,281.556L 215.569,377.222L 228.903,378.222L 229.569,371.556L 252.903,373.556L 252.903,370.556L 304.236,375.889L 310.903,289.889 Z I will soon need to create paths for Australian states, Melbourne suburbs and other arbitrary artistic shapes and I was wondering how to do this. I suppose the states and suburbs are in public government sites somewhere that I can't find yet (and they're probably in the wrong format for me). What about generating paths for shapes of my own? Is there some tool that can help me draw pretty shapes and get path strings for them? Blend? Greg ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.commailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight ___ ozsilverlight mailing list ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight
