Some videos don't have any voice-over or sound... 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 >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> ozwpf mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozwpf >> > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 6683 (20111204) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > _______________________________________________ > ozwpf mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozwpf
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