Hi Don, > Our Aurora XAML Designer application is written entirely in C# with > XAML. One of the cool features we are building in is the ability to > select a *Theme* for the user interface. This is done using XAML and > Styles. The application logic is still a .NET program; the UI and > styles were defined in XAML.
Skinning is always a plus. But of course that can be done in SPARK too through CSS. > XAML defines all of the user interface, look feel, animations and > some basic behaviors of the UI. But for application development you > still use a .NET language with your XAML document. The objects are > defined in XAML, but the advanced logic is done in your .NET > language, kind of how ECMA acts on the SVG objects in the DOM. I guess I wasn't able to express myself clearly before but this was what I was trying to point out two posts ago when I said: > What is the application code written in? > Where does the application code sit? That is exactly what I was trying to get at. I understand that XAML provides UI controls in a similar fashion to SPARK. This just gets straight back to what my original statement was (though it was originally done only have seriously): "SVG+SPARK - an open source alternative to XAML" Remember - the SPARK *framework* can be implemented in any language. SVG is simply used to visualize the widgets. Currently I've only implemented it in ECMAScript, but if I had the time I'd get it going in Java as well. Mainly I'm just poking fun at MS and XAML. SVG+SPARK is not be as fast or as robust as XAML+.NET. But SVG+SPARK can do what XAML does. Keep that in mind. Alastair --- In [email protected], "mobiform" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Alastair Fettes" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Don. > > > > So you really want to write an entire application in X(A)ML? Could > > you write a program even close to as powerful in XAML as in other > > languages? > > > Alastair > > > > > Hi Alastair, > > I think your missing it here a bit, maybe this would clarify.... > > Imagine SVG and the SVGDOM with Java as the code behind language > instead of ECMA Script. Now you're starting to move more in the > direction of XAML and Avalon. Now imagine the SVG not being > interpreted, but converted directly into Java runtime code. > > XAML defines all of the user interface, look feel, animations and > some basic behaviors of the UI. But for application development you > still use a .NET language with your XAML document. The objects are > defined in XAML, but the advanced logic is done in your .NET > language, kind of how ECMA acts on the SVG objects in the DOM. > > You can use XAML like SVG with no code behind, or you can use code > behind to create a full blown Windows .NET application much the same > way that you do today with .NET 1.1. (There is also an in-between > application for the Internet called an Express Application) > > Our Aurora XAML Designer application is written entirely in C# with > XAML. One of the cool features we are building in is the ability to > select a *Theme* for the user interface. This is done using XAML and > Styles. The application logic is still a .NET program; the UI and > styles were defined in XAML. > > > What happens if you want to do something that isn't in the XAML > schema? > > Doesn't matter. I can create custom objects and use them in the > XAML. There are no restrictions. Consider the following code. > > This is an PieChart Control with Pie Slices that we wrote in Avalon > and C#. We can use this in control in the XAML, note the XAML linear > gradient brush being used by one of the pie slices....we can do XAML > styling, animation, .... no limits. > > > <!-- Saved from Aurora XAML Designer for WinFX - Mobiform Software > Ltd. - Tuesday, June 21, 2005 3:48:47 PM --> > <Canvas xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/avalon/2005"; > Background="#FFFFFFFF" Height="400" Name="ROOT" Width="500"> > <Panel.Children> > <?Mapping XmlNamespace="AuroraPieChart_SmartControl_1ns" > ClrNamespace="SmartControl" Assembly="AuroraPieChart" ?> > <AuroraPieChart_SmartControl_1:AuroraPieChart > Background="#FFFFFFFF" Height="209" Canvas.Left="104" > Name="AuroraPieChart1" Canvas.Top="107.361666666667" Width="322" > xmlns:AuroraPieChart_SmartControl_1="AuroraPieChart_SmartControl_1ns" > > > <Panel.Children> > <AuroraPieChart_SmartControl_1:AuroraPieSlice Fill="#FF1505EA" > Canvas.Left="0" Name="AuroraPieSlice1" Percent="20" Canvas.Top="0" /> > <AuroraPieChart_SmartControl_1:AuroraPieSlice Canvas.Left="0" > Name="AuroraPieSlice2" Percent="20" Canvas.Top="0"> > <AuroraPieChart_SmartControl_1:AuroraPieSlice.Fill> > <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="1,1" Opacity="1"> > <GradientBrush.GradientStops> > <GradientStopCollection> > <GradientStop Color="#FF0000FF" Offset="0" /> > <GradientStop Color="#FFA52A2A" Offset="0.5" /> > </GradientStopCollection> > </GradientBrush.GradientStops> > </LinearGradientBrush> > </AuroraPieChart_SmartControl_1:AuroraPieSlice.Fill> > </AuroraPieChart_SmartControl_1:AuroraPieSlice> > <AuroraPieChart_SmartControl_1:AuroraPieSlice Fill="#FFD88543" > Canvas.Left="0" Name="AuroraPieSlice3" Percent="20" Canvas.Top="0" /> > <AuroraPieChart_SmartControl_1:AuroraPieSlice Fill="#FF26BEB8" > Canvas.Left="0" Name="AuroraPieSlice4" Percent="20" Canvas.Top="0" /> > </Panel.Children> > </AuroraPieChart_SmartControl_1:AuroraPieChart> > </Panel.Children> > </Canvas> > > Ron @ Mobiform > http://www.mobiform.com ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! 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