I'm not sure what you're asking - how to achieve the 4x4 grid (I'd use uniformgrid in WPF...I don't think SL has this) or how to display a thumbnail of an arbitrary control? (I'd use VisualBrush or RenderTargetBitmap in WPF - SL has VisualBrush)
Joseph On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight > >
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