Manuel Clement - Sparkle CTP Released (er, Expression Interactive Designer) | scobleizer

AdityaG
OMG VISTA FTW LOLZ!!1one

Awesome video! and Happy Birthday Manuel! Smiley

EDIT: Question to the sparkle guys, When adding TabControls, is the SelectedIndex routine to switch tabs just temporary now? I mean, it would probably get annoying if you had a lot of tabs. Can it just switch to that TabItem's panel when you click/double click on its tab like in visual studio?

Cheers,
Aditya

Saptak

Just awesome technology! This technology will go a long way in improving trust and respect between UI designers and developers. Smiley

peterbl

Robert had a question near the end of the video about whether the SmoothMove control is available-I originally posted it here and totally stole the idea from the Microsoft Max guys (though I have no idea how they did theirs). They have some serious design skills, I hope they don't mind.

And the crash in the video that was blamed on me? Fundamentally impossible- every single line of code that I write is absolutely flawless without the slightest possibility of an error. It must have been one of those processor gnomes.

peterbl

This is our first CTP of Sparkle but we're taking feedback, bugs and any crashes you happen to find seriously. Send feedback, hit the forums and submit any crash reports!

Dave_Matthews

Looks very nice, folks. Sparkle imports/displays audio+video... Can a browser object be called for display of a regular web page or several within the vector based window?

The reason i ask is because we were awarded a patent on the Flash based fly-through interface system at http://www.2Goto.com, but The player.swf can't import standard HTML pages, so we can't fly through real information... Like 30,000 search returns at the same time.

Would love to build a working demo-wanna help?

Thanks,
Dave_Matthews

mawcc
Make it so

Is that a picture of "Napoleon's March" from one of Edward Tufte's books on the wall behind Manuel?
If so, I think you've selected a great source for determining the best way to "Envision Information".

amirkhella

mawcc wrote:
Is that a picture of "Napoleon's March" from one of Edward Tufte's books on the wall behind Manuel?
If so, I think you've selected a great source for determining the best way to "Envision Information".

Yes it is

Napoleon's March is the best static information visualization piece to date.

bgmccollum

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

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

Very cool guys! Installed winfx and Sparkle after vid with no issues.
After about 15 minutes I have these:
1) Love the splash screen. Nice understated and interesting movement. Can see we are in a different ball field here.
2) Love the pen. Did a cool little free form object and colored it and rotated it. Looked like a cool little cell shaded graphic.
3) Could not figure out how to drag the connectoids to change the shape around. Could stretch and drag, but not move individual connectoids.
4) No right click menus on surface seemed a bit odd.
5) Could not see any tool menu besides the pin, pencil thing. Where are the controls?

Great stuff. Can't wait to see some interactive tutorial or something. Cheers!
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William