Hello, Ian Griffiths (DevelopMentor) has written-up an article for the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) site titled "Introducing the New Avalon Graphics Model" that shows you how you can use the XAML SVG-like markup to create vector graphics using the graphics machinery code-named Avalon shipping with Windows 2009.
Here's a sample: <Canvas xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2009/xaml/";> <Polygon Points="5,5 35,5 65,35 65,65 35,65 5,35" Stroke="Black"> <Polygon.Fill> <LinearGradientBrush StartPoint="0,0" EndPoint="1,1"> <LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops> <GradientStopCollection> <GradientStop Color="red" Offset="0"/> <GradientStop Color="magenta" Offset="0.5"/> <GradientStop Color="cyan" Offset="1"/> </GradientStopCollection> </LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops> </LinearGradientBrush> </Polygon.Fill> </Polygon> </Canvas> Ian concludes: The new graphics model introduced by Longhorn offers the best aspects of previous approaches to building the UI, such as Win32-style repainting, bitmap backing store, and HTML-based user interfaces. It provides a powerful set of drawing primitives and makes them very straightforward to use through markup, relieving application developers of the more tedious aspects of getting the user interface to appear on screen. At runtime, there is an object model that reflects the structure of the markup, making it very easy to manipulate the display and keep it up-to-date. All of this is built on top of a new display model that removes many of the restrictions of the old Win32 model, enabling much more interesting visual effects with its powerful new composition engine. Full story @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/avalongraphics.asp - Gerald ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ xul-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-announce
