I am doing a Win store app 8.1. I want to have a shape looks like the dialog box, with the little triangle in the bottom. I remember there is "Callout" control in Expression 4 before when I did WP7 silverlight app, which is the thing I want, but they are not existing any more in blend for win store apps.
Where can I find that shape, Any ideas?
Stinks huh? But maybe it's not what you would have wanted anyway, right? Listen, there's nothing stopping you from creating one. It's super-easy.
http://blog.jerrynixon.com/2012/08/expression-design-to-create-windows-8.html
Here's another one
http://blog.jerrynixon.com/2013/12/you-can-make-it-snow-in-xaml-here-ill.html
Best of luck!
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I want to draw form like this (Windows Form or I don't what it is).
This is "Clock Widget for HTC Home 3".
I know, that this form has drawn (developed, invented :) with Framework 4.
What do I need to use? Maybe Windows Forms, of WPF, or...
Any ideas?
WPF would make it a heck of a lot easier than WinForms.
That said, I'm guessing based on your question that you're going to need more guidance than just being pointed at the "right" technology...
I'm trying to create a login screen in silverlight and i was taken two textboxes and put them in two of rows in Grid layout but when i run the app textboxes taking right alignment and stick with end of the window right side, any one help me to get out of this.
Thanks,
#nagaraju.
With personal experience with Silverlight, i would recommend using blend 4 for these things.
Because it will give you a more direct feel and a look.
Most Grids can have a free form, so that you can put anything anywhere.Though if your just writing XAML for it you may be off on your padding and margins for the Textboxes in the the Grid.
Also if that's happening their is a Case where your TextBoxes may not be in the Grid, if that's the case it will try and throw it out of the picture but your canvas size is most likely set to the size of the Login Screen so it cant throw it out. Alas putting it in the right lower hand side.
I would definitely mess around with the different options inside blend to get that working,
if your a Windows Phone DEV then you should have blend 4...but if your a Silverlight WEB DEV you would have to download Sketch Flow or Blend 4 Ultimate.
Also if your a student you may access Dreamspark.com and get Ultimate for free.
I hope this helps! :)
I need a WPF control that acts like the Panorama control for Windows Phone 7, but I need it for a desktop application.
It will contain a series of panels (or Panorama Items) that the application will be able to slide through horizontally programmatically.
Also, the content inside the panels not currently displayed on the screen will need to be "lazy loaded". In other words, they should be referenced but not loaded or rendered.
Can I somehow adapt the WP7 Panorama control to do this? Or will I have to develop a custom control from scratch to behave similarly to it?
Thank you!
EDIT:
I could probably use a VirtualizingPanel to implement the lazyload behaviour.
MahApps.Metro while still not super mature does allow for the wp7 Panorama control. Demo of how to use a panorama here. I've played with it a little and while its not the most customizable thing out there it gets the job done. Pretty sweet. Also Sacha Barber (Codeproject Demigod) wrote up an article on making your own. Of which I haven't looked at yet but, the guy usually does awesome work. So I'd check that one out as well.
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/arielbh/archive/2010/10/21/porting-windows-phone-7-s-panorama-control-to-silverlight-4.aspx gives some clues about how do to this.
It suggests using http://phone.codeplex.com/ as your base and then you can use http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4b281bde-9b01-4890-b3d4-b3b45ca2c2e4 (Microsoft Surface Manipulations and Inertia Sample for Microsoft Silverlight) to run convert get it to respond to touch.
Seems none exist as far as I can see so far.
This blog has started an attempt at making it, so you could work from there to make your own. Be sure to also check out this page which details the creation of an individual panorama item too.
Greetings
I've read WPF utilizes DirectX so I'm wondering if it is possible to create a Game Overlay with WPF. I have tried with Winforms or WPF by itself and the transparent forms or windows always cause problems for streaming software thus I'm wondering is it possible to do the following:
Create a WPF application which shows a Window on the desktop with all the options needed for the overlay. Once all the options is filled in you can press Update and the Overlay is created in the game with all the information on it. The WPF app itself won't be visible on the stream. This means all the viewers will not have any trouble with it when the broadcaster changes settings.
More about the overlay
The overlay will be a scoreboard so it will need a set amount of info. For example:
So to sum up my question(s)
Can I make a WPF application which
dynamically creates a DirectX overlay
ingame?
Since it needs to work in DirectX9,
is this project possible to make by a
single dev (me) which has little to
no exp with DirectX?
If it is possible, where should I
start?
Thanks in advance for all your possible insights and replies!
What you want would be possible using D3DImage. It allows you to host any Direct3D content within WPF and also allows you to have overlay with transparency. Here is a simple example.
From your comment above, it sounds like your really trying to inject your overlay (at least from the user's perspective) into Starcraft II. You would almost have to host a copy of the directx buffer.
Also, besides WPF, you might want to look at XNA.
I'm creating a training lab for a desktop application.
Basically it'll be a series of screenshots with hotspots, when the user clicks in the right spot it advances to the next screenshot. There will also be some simple text input, so a textbox will need be overlaid over some of the screenshots. The logic is simply if the user enters the right thing they get to move to the next screen.
Adobe Captivate or good old timeline-based Flash is great for creating stuff like this. But this project has to be Silverlight. I considered using Captivate along with a swf to silverlight converter, but I believe those converters only support animations not logic.
The question is: what is the easiest way to create this type of thing in Silverlight? Can Expression Blend do it? Other alternatives? Ideally little programming is required.
Blend is great for this, you may also want to try using Sketchflow to prototype it quickly http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/SketchFlow_OverView.aspx
Using Expression Blend's behaviours and storyboards makes it easy to create an application with no code in no time.