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On 08/12/2011, at 3:05 PM, "Kirsten Greed" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I am wondering if the Carousel control is what I need. Is anyone using it in 
> anger, and as a horizontal space solution?
> 
> Carl I see the light about letting go of Win-forms thinking.  
> 
> Joseph – cool site, only am I the only one having problems with getting sound 
> on the Vimeo?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Kirsten
> 
>  
> 
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Joseph
> Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2011 11:12 AM
> To: ozWPF
> Subject: Re: Getting up to speed in wpf
> 
>  
> 
> I've written something like what you describe Greg it's on learnwpf.com circa 
> mid august this year.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 
> On 08/12/2011, at 9:39 AM, "Greg Keogh" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> This question of using screen space wisely in the horizontal direction is 
>> one that came up when I was working with Kirsten last week. This question of 
>> how to best use horizontal space in the UI is one that crosscuts all modern 
>> resizable UIs. It’s really a design puzzle about “horizontal space” and I’m 
>> wondering if others have found any snazzy solutions, perhaps using 3rd party 
>> controls, custom controls or clever use of standard controls.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> The problem is hard to describe without a whiteboard, but try to picture a 
>> typical app window that has a busy “edit form” area with multiple groups of 
>> things like addresses, contact names, history lists, etc. Say when the 
>> window is wide enough you can easily fit 3 of these groups horizontally. As 
>> the screen widens or narrows the groups of controls will squeeze or expand 
>> and look weird. You can set Min and Max sizes but then you finish up with 
>> cropped controls or wasted space.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I’ve been wondering about a UI technique for dealing with this problem. I 
>> first imagined creating a container control that knows the Min Max 
>> acceptable widths of its children and when one falls below its Min then it 
>> “collapses” to a strip or tab. So the container would automatically collapse 
>> and expand children optimally according to the amount of horizontal space 
>> available. You can still of course force a collapsed child to appear and 
>> push others out of the way (if possible). The algorithm doesn’t seem too 
>> challenging but the hours of fiddly coding could make a nice reusable 
>> container.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I was thinking of knocking-up a proof of concept, but I thought it wise to 
>> ask here before reinventing any wheels. Perhaps there are other tricks I 
>> haven’t thought of. We want to avoid things like wrap panels where things 
>> start scrolling vertically, try to imagine a way of optimally using a 
>> horizontal strip of the UI.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Greg
>> 
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