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Himanshu: thanks for posting this question on my blog, I just replied to you there:
http://spaces.msn.com/manodesign/blog/cns!DC8DC039B51DE219!239.entry

BTW I am now on the MSX Design team (AERO, etc):
http://spaces.msn.com/manodesign/blog/cns!DC8DC039B51DE219!460.entry

-mano

Hi,

Thanks for the details, I can help you: you should create these animations inside the "Template" of your Button.

Press F1 and read about Control Styling and Control Templates - basically you can reuse the same Template and Style on as many buttons as you want.

This way if you have animations for MouseEnter, MouseLeave, Click - you only define 3 timelines inside your button Template and that's it.

This also works with any other controls/widgets beside Button of course.

-mano

Cool!

Hi! Thanks for the kind words

I am not sure to understand what you are trying to do. Could you describe this again in more details? You can create multiple timelines with the same event, so that they get triggered at the same time. I am not sure if this is what you were asking.

Take care!

-mano

Sven Groot wrote:

The CTP download page says only XPSP2 is supported, so I gotta ask: are XP x64 and Vista (5270) not supported?

I believe this specific version of WPF / WinFX has some known issues with some CPUs - please look at the readme.

As for Vista 5270, I have it running on the laptop I am using now, and it seems to work fine.

-mano

bgmccollum wrote:

mclement said:

The design process includes competitive analysis. You research the market, users, tools. It is healthy to be aware of the existing solutions to problems your target user.

How is Motion part of your competitive space? It is a motion graphics package, where Sparkle is for building UIs for application. Unless your true intentions for Sparkle have yet to be announced...?

Well first of all we have been working on Expression Interactive Designer for more than 4 years - way before this particular tool was released. We just keep up to date on what's out there.

The team is passionate about AUTHORING TOOLS, period. We love them. We live and breath authoring tools, we use them all the time to do tons of things (beside sitting down and making Expression tools).

Designers do what they do because they have to: it is like breathing.

I compare it to making music - you do it and you can't stop

SO ... We have authoring tools all around us - regardless of whether or not they are tools to create "Application User Interfaces".

bgmccollum wrote:

Question: Is that a screenshot of Apple Motion on the wall in the background? I wonder what other forms of "inspiration" might lurk...

The design process includes competitive analysis. You research the market, users, tools. It is healthy to be aware of the existing solutions to problems your target user.

IT IS OUT!

http://spaces.msn.com/members/manodesign/Blog/cns!1pRsSVBaAuwgFSti-clSJ6Ng!384.entry

Hey Sean,

Unfortunately there is no date yet... Stay tuned! Thanks.
I basically say the same thing in all the posts I make on Ch9

-mano

Ahh I wish I knew he was on campus... I'd have tried to sneak in the session

-mano