Missing Sketchflow controls button, checkbox and many others.
Hi when I try to create a sketchflow project and add controls all I get it the default text ones not the Sketchflow hand writing ones :(
All I can find on the web is the advice to uninstall blend then install it again :( this cannot surely be an answer?
Expression Blend 3
Make sure you're dragging from the sketchy style palette.
Are you dragging the controls from the asset panel or the toolbar buttons? By default in Blend 3, the toolbar controls will create the non-sketchy controls, you have to create them from the asset panel under the SketchFlow heading. In Blend 4, the toolbar controls will create the sketchy controls by default in a SketchFlow project.
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We have a designer that did a whole concept of GUI for our next WPF application.
If we are able to provide him a "user friendly" way to edit styles, he would have done it by itself.
He only has to edit colors, and small things like Margin, default fonts, ...
Naturally, I tought that Blend would be the solution, but I admit I'm struggling:
Blend allow us to edit the template, but we don't really want to change the whole template, just some color around. We made a small dummy app that has all the controls required to be themed, we edit template in a dedicated theme file, but I can't find how to have the same template applied to every control(e.g. button) in our application
We use DevExpress as library, and it appears that most of their component are composed of a lot of subcomponent(for which I cannot just right-click then edit template). Plus it seems that the devExpress theme have the priority over the templates changes(tested by changing background colors by example)
As a pure developer I would create a "style" that would be applied on all controls of a specific type in our application, but I can't see how to create and edit them in blend?
What approach would you take?
You want to use DevExpress Theme Editor. It will allow you to edit all used DevExpress themes in your application. It has a friendly UI which should be usable by your designer.
Another approach is probably not so friendly for your designer but you can also manually override DevExpress themes with your extended ones (require XAML). I am not sure about the controls but that way you can for sure modify brushes.
I am using Telerik in a WPF app and am using their Drag/drop manager. Everything is fine, except I want to get rid of that pesky arrow that appears before the rendering of the template view.
I am attaching a screen grab using their WPF demo on the drag/drop demo. The area that's highlighted with the red rectangle is NOT part of the template you specify in telerik - and I want to hide it.
Any help would be, of course, very greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I want my WP7 app controls and to have a certain font which is not in Visual studio font selection, how can I add the font to the font list of Visual studio or directly into my controls?
This can be easily done using Expression Blend.
In your project, select a TextBlock and go to the Properties panel, under Text section, there is a Font Manager button (see below), click it and then you can select the font you want in a popup window.
Expression Blend will automatically create a Fonts folder and put all the embedded fonts in there, really easy to use. :)
Here's a post showing how to embed fonts in a silverlight project (see the section 'Custom Fonts'):
http://blogs.silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2009/09/09/97060.aspx
I haven't tested this in a windows phone project but it should work.
WPFThemes is a good resource for WPF themes and styles. As of now they do not cover many controls like
Window
Popup
Datagrid
etc..
Is there any other resource to help developer in styling a WPF application?
Please check out the Microsoft Expression Gallery to see if that helps you out. There are several types of window and button styles there.
I know how to do custom drawing of a standalone Windows Forms ScrollBar because there are plenty of examples at places like codeproject.com. But how do you custom draw the scrollbars in controls you do not create yourself? For example a Panel can show scrollbars but how would I ensure that the scrollbars it shows are custom drawn?
Or maybe this is not possible and I would need to create my own version of a Panel so that they use my own custom drawing scrollbars?
The scrollbars you see most often, including those built into most winforms controls, are rendered by Windows and there is no way to override their appearance in WinForms short of implementing an entirely custom solution which completely takes over the rendering and behavior of the common scrollbar control. There are some commercial packagages which claim to do this (google winforms skinning).