Two quick questions...

Posted By: LCARS | Jul 30th, 2005 @ 4:02 PM
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#Jul 30th, 2005 @ 4:02 PM
LCARS
LCARS
Hello World!!
1) I had heard that Microsoft plans to release Avalon/Indigo for XP. Does anyone know when Microsoft plans to do this? (a non beta version).

2) I have seen several posts/movies talking about the versatility of the avalon listbox. (Sorry I don't know the links off the top of my head.) My question is: Does anyone know if the avalon listbox has built in support for a selection rectangle (like the one you see when you are selecting multiple files in Windows Explorer).

Thanks!

-- LCARS
#Jul 30th, 2005 @ 4:05 PM
W3bbo
W3bbo
The Master of Baiters
LCARS wrote:
1) I had heard that Microsoft plans to release Avalon/Indigo for XP. Does anyone know when Microsoft plans to do this? (a non beta version).


IIRC, Avalon for Windows NT5.1/5.2 will be available shortly after Windows NT6 (I'll never call it "Vista"!) is released. But I may be wrong.

LCARS wrote:
2) I have seen several posts/movies talking about the versatility of the avalon listbox. (Sorry I don't know the links off the top of my head.) My question is: Does anyone know if the avalon listbox has built in support for a selection rectangle (like the one you see when you are selecting multiple files in Windows Explorer).


What type of "listbox" are we talking about here?
#Jul 30th, 2005 @ 4:33 PM
LCARS
LCARS
Hello World!!

W3bbo wrote:

What type of "listbox" are we talking about here?


Err just plain listbox? I did some digging and I found one video from the .Net Show:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/episode.aspx?xml=theshow/en/Episode042/manifest.xml

It talks a bit about Avalon. At time frame 1:11:25 they show a demo of a listbox in avalon. The purpose is to show that they can radically alter the listbox's appearance while the code behind it stays the same. I wanted to know if the same listbox has built in support for a selection rectangle (like the winforms ListView).

I hope that clears up the question.

Smiley

#Jul 30th, 2005 @ 8:02 PM
Tyler Brown
Tyler Brown
Bullets change governments far surer than votes.
As far as I know, it doesn't support the selection rectangle right out of the box. Avalon, or as it is now called, WPF, is very flexible in allowing developers to customize the look, feel and functionality of the control. You could probably modify the listbox to your liking with relative ease.
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