I have been playing around with the Silverlight progressbar a while and no matter what color (Foreground) I set it too it stays dull and ugly-ish.
I wonder why this is since I'm using Silverlight 5.0 on a windows 7 machine, .NET 4.5 and the windows 7 default progressbar looks stunning.
I searched a lot for it and I did find some commercial solutions where you could pay to get prettier controls, but I don't want to do that (since it may not work for all I know).
How can I make my progressbar look nicer?
Use styles or themes to change the visual of progress bar. You can get the copy of the style of the control in Blend as described here.
you might have a look at the blacklight controls.
In my opinien the loading animation is really nice (It is not a progress bar, but if you add a percentage loaded display it is kind of ;) ). You can find it under animated controls.
Hope this helps.
BR,
TJ
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Looking to my first steps with WPF on Windows 7 I was very pleased. Seeing it on Windows 10 I was very surprised. The buttons didn`t looks like expected. Trying it with WinForms results in the expected look an feel.
Here my problem:
So my question:
How can I get the "normal" style of the default button (OK has IsDefault=true) with the expanded blue border for the button even when it has focus, without defining the button-style myself?
This is very important in case of setting the focus to the Cancel-button programmatically, because in this case the dotted border will not be displayed, so on Win 10 the user can not know witch button will be pressed by enter.
You can get similar button styles using Windows UWP.
In WPF, you can check out the Modern UI(MUI) in MSDN site.
It can produce similar results. I have been working with mui for a couple of months and it really helped me to satisfy my client who wanted to have a Windows 10 like UI experience. I had to create tiles like in start menu also. MUI did a great job for me.
Get the MUI from Github. Modern UI for WPF
Also I had tried devexpress and telerik controls. Have a look at them too.
Anyone know how to go about achieving the tilt effect you see on Windows Phone 7 tiles or on the tiles in the Kinect UI on XBOX in WPF?
Sample screenshot:
There are a number of libraries that do it for Silverlight but all rely on the PlaneProjection which isn't in WPF.
Here is a link that shows what I mean and how to do it in Silverlight. http://www.scottlogic.co.uk/blog/colin/2011/05/metro-in-motion-part-4-tilt-effect/?utm_source=Silverlight-Zone.com&utm_medium=SilverlightZone&utm_campaign=kunal2383
Thanks
Finally I created my own Tilt effect behavior for WPF, take a look to my post and tell me what you think.
I have updated it with KeepDraging Property and TiltFactor Property and the possibility to add it directly to the panel. I hope you enjoy it now
The tilt effect on WP7 relies on PlaneProjection which is exclusive to Silverlight.
There are several projects out there that have attempted to port PlaneProject to WPF but the tilt effect itself has not been ported yet.
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.
Whilst working in Silverlight I am always fighting the urge to work on the screen design rather than coding the behaviour (which is what I should be doing). My cunning plan is to find a theme that looks something like MS SketchFlow or Balsamiq which will remind me of the draft nature of the screens whilst being somewhat prettier than the default look & feel of Silverlight.
Does anyone know of such a theme? Alternatively can anyone give advise on how they overcame there design addiction :)
Thanks,
Dan
Hmm... Work in Visual Studio rather than Blend?
Alternatively, those Sketchflow controls are just that, normal controls that are styled. If you create one of the demo sketchflow projects in blend you can just grab the style file, I think it's "SketchStyles.xaml" and reuse that where you need it.
(I used the 'KioskSketch' sample app btw)
I'd like to build an own control, but therefore I need to know if its possible to combine a Textbox event with a Popup more or less like the Datepicker Control.
Or is there a better way to do this than with a Popup?
Greets
Patrick
Sure you could do this. In fact look at the DatePicker as an example of how you might do that. I'd imagine your control would be a composite of TextBox, Button and Popup controls.
You can download the complete source to the Silverlight Toolkit from the CodePlex Silverlight Toolkit project site.
And you can get the source and unit tests for the Beta 2 Release 1 controls at Shawn Burke's blog.
Neither of these may be exactly what you're looking for, but they might get you on the right track.