Comment Feed for Kyle Groves and Dave Goulet: eLearning app demonstrates WPF goodness (scobleizer on Channel 9)

Back/Forward Chrome

Hypersw — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:56:10 GMT

My guess is that IE6 has the back-forward chrome, and IE7 has not (as it provides interfaces for manipulating its own back/forward buttons, so no use of creating own ones). Right?

Re: Kyle Groves and Dave Goulet: eLearning app demonstrates WPF goodness

DCMonkey — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:39:21 GMT

AdamKinney wrote:
It didn't look like a NavigationWindow to me as there was no chrome on the top with Back and Forward buttons. But sure you can run more than one animation at a time. Here's

Re: Kyle Groves and Dave Goulet: eLearning app demonstrates WPF goodness

NateDunlap — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:33:02 GMT

I've posted how the "page transitions" effect was created for the 3M demo at

http://www.designerslove.net/2005/10/page-transitions.html

Re: Kyle Groves and Dave Goulet: eLearning app demonstrates WPF goodness

Adam Kinney — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 05:15:54 GMT

It didn't look like a NavigationWindow to me as there was no chrome on the top with Back and Forward buttons. But sure you can run more than one animation at a time. Here's an opacity property which can be animated. In this case, it looks like the animation was triggered by the button click.

jmacdonagh wrote:

2) The WPF/E application that was shown seemed to be completely different than the client application. If it was completely different XAML and C# code, why was it said "this is the same XAML..."?

As mentioned above the first application was a WPF app, using the full blown WPF platform. The second one was running on a preview WPF/E platform, so once you realize that its not suprising that they look different.

Plus both platforms will use XAML, but the preview application they showed at the PDC was an application running inside of an ActiveX control using XAML and JavaScript.Which is cool and lends itself to the "everywhere" concept.

Please remember, WPF/E is still in the planning stage. I'm just relaying information given at the session. But that's one of the great things about PDC, we get to show off our ideas and get feedback from everyone.

Re: Kyle Groves and Dave Goulet: eLearning app demonstrates WPF goodness

Tyler Brown — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:57:30 GMT

I'm also interested in how the fade animation was acheived between pages. Perhaps a brush the size of the page was drawn iwth a white background property, which then had its opacity property animated from 0 to 1 and then back to 0 with a new page load in between?

Re: Kyle Groves and Dave Goulet: eLearning app demonstrates WPF goodness

jmacdonagh — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:55:09 GMT

2 Questions:

1) How did you achieve the transistion between pages? From what I can gather, you are using a Navigation window with the background gradient built in. Whenever a new page is navigated to, you fade the old one out and fade the new one in?

2) The WPF/E application that was shown seemed to be completely different than the client application. If it was completely different XAML and C# code, why was it said "this is the same XAML..."?