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Re: XAML Power Toys 3.1.0.2 Has Silverlight 2 Support!

5-Oct-08 12:56

I have just posted the latest release of XAML Power Toys. You can get it here.

http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/xaml-power-toys-3102-has-silverlight-2-support/[^]

XAML Power Toys will help you lay out forms or DataGrids bound to classes. It also have many other XAML editing features.

Enjoy, be more productive and pass the word!!

Cheers, Karl

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modified 27-Feb-21 21:01pm.

Syed Mehroz Alam8-Oct-08 19:02

Syed Mehroz Alam

8-Oct-08 19:02

Thanks, Karl. Great contribution to ease development.

Regards,
Syed Mehroz Alam.

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What about Mole

Syed Mehroz Alam9-Oct-08 19:51

Syed Mehroz Alam

9-Oct-08 19:51

Any plan to support Silverlight? It would be really nice!

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Syed Mehroz Alam

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Re: What about Mole

User 27100910-Oct-08 0:34

10-Oct-08 0:34

Syed,

I'm waiting for a TreeView control. Then Mole for Silverlight will be a GO!!

Thanks for asking and have a great day!

Cheers, Karl

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Re: What about Mole

jandersen7830-Apr-09 11:15

jandersen78

30-Apr-09 11:15

How about the treeview in the silverlight toolkit? I'd love to see Mole for SL.

Please Help

mabbas_865-Oct-08 6:58

mabbas_86

5-Oct-08 6:58

Hi,

I am developing a video editor in WPF, as my final year project. Can you please help me with the timeline process. Like in Adobe Premiere, or any other editing softwares. How can i add my videos, images, etc to the timeline and how to play the timeline?

Thanks

Re: Please Help

User 2710095-Oct-08 14:23

5-Oct-08 14:23

The concept of editing a video, overlaying images, merging sound and text is a huge undertaking.

WPF does not ship a TimeLine control that you can add things to and have them produce a video.

I don't mean to rain on your project, in fact I wish you the best on this.

If I can think about a starting point, I'll post back to you.

Here are some links I found. Check them out.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/0f1f7894-27ea-490d-8dc6-e5c7595c5dc4/[^]

http://gcorbin.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/the-joys-of-video-editing-wpf-intro/[^]

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/04/29/reusable-wpf-transitions-project-is-live.aspx[^]

Cheers, Karl

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Re: Please Help

mabbas_865-Oct-08 19:55

mabbas_86

5-Oct-08 19:55

Thank you sir for your help, well my deadline for the project is this December Frown | :-(

, well lets see. Me also trying my best. A website which i saw was www.ultralearn.com, the created a timeline in silverlight i think. Please check it out. Thanks

Re: Please Help

User 2710096-Oct-08 0:35

6-Oct-08 0:35

There program looks nice. I'm not sure where to start. I hope some of the links I provided can get you going. Maybe there are other links on the Internet.

Probably your first task should be, understanding "how" to edit a video file. Write a program that allows adding text or images to a video file.

Once you know "how" editing process works, putting it in a TimeLine should be the easy part.

Cheers, Karl

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Help with a WPF Combobox

Aaron Hickman2-Oct-08 14:11

2-Oct-08 14:11

Hi all,

I am really new to WPF and I am trying to create a combo box that has the ability to display an ellipses character if the text is too long (for the selected item). Can anyone help?

<ComboBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" IsEditable="False" Width="200">
<ComboBoxItem>Electronics, Game Systems, Cameras & Photo</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem>Computers and Networking</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem>Clothing, Shoes, and Accessories</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem>Books, Music, Movies, DVDs, and Video Games</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem IsSelected="True">All Other Categories</ComboBoxItem>
</ComboBox>

-Aaron

User 2710092-Oct-08 15:52

2-Oct-08 15:52

Have a look at this article:

http://www.designerwpf.com/2008/02/04/how-do-i-wrap-text-in-the-combobox/[^]

I found this using www.live.com and seached for: wpf combobox texttrimming

Cheers, Karl

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modified 27-Feb-21 21:01pm.

Aaron Hickman2-Oct-08 17:06

2-Oct-08 17:06

Hi Karl,

Thank you for the reply. I actually did see this article before posting. I could not get it to work. How do I set the DataTemplate for the combobox?

User 2710092-Oct-08 17:11

2-Oct-08 17:11

Here is a code snippet from one of my programs.

<ComboBox x:Name="cboBindingPath" SelectedValuePath="Name" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Name}" />
</DataTemplate>
</ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
</ComboBox>

Cheers, Karl

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Aaron Hickman2-Oct-08 17:58

2-Oct-08 17:58

hmm. I must have something wrong. My code is below. When I select the item that is longer than the width of the combobox it does not show the ellipsis characters. Any thing that you can see that I am doing wrong?

<ComboBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" IsEditable="False" Width="200" x:Name="Category">
<ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding ElementName=Category, Path=SelectedItem}" TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis"/>
</DataTemplate>
</ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
<ComboBoxItem>Electronics, Game Systems, Cameras & Photo</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem>Computers and Networking</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem>Clothing, Shoes, and Accessories</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem>Books, Music, Movies, DVDs, and Video Games</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem IsSelected="True">All Other Categories</ComboBoxItem>
</ComboBox>

User 2710092-Oct-08 18:28

2-Oct-08 18:28

I see what you mean. I have a hack, but want to give you a better solution. I'm in the middle to posting a new version of XAML Power Toys, so I'll get back to this tomorrow night after work.

For now, move ahead, we'll get this.

Cheers, Karl

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modified 27-Feb-21 21:01pm.

Aaron Hickman2-Oct-08 18:33

2-Oct-08 18:33

Thanks Karl, You Rock! Big Grin | :-D

User 2710095-Oct-08 14:17

5-Oct-08 14:17

Aaron,

I've spent the entire weekend updating XAML Power Toys for Silverlight and just published it.

I'll hop on this Monday after work.

I'm just plain beat and brain is out of gas.

I need my creative gas tank full to give you a solution that is not hacky.

Cheers, Karl

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modified 27-Feb-21 21:01pm.

ColinM1237-Oct-08 13:15

ColinM123

7-Oct-08 13:15

Perhaps you can use a valueconverter (erm.. somewhere)

User 27100911-Oct-08 14:28

Solution: Re: Help with a WPF Combobox

11-Oct-08 14:28

Aaron,

I've spent and hour got it to work but it had an unexpected behavior.

So I'm retemplating the ComboBox to support this. I had to download Blend to do this. Should be another hour or so.

Cheers, Karl

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modified 27-Feb-21 21:01pm.

User 27100911-Oct-08 16:53

Re: Solution: Re: Help with a WPF Combobox

11-Oct-08 16:53

Below are two solutions. One when the ComboBox ItemSource is data bound. The second when the ComboBox items are added in-line.

You can thank Code Project MVP Josh Smith for this solution. He is the real, "Man" and Mr. WPF.

Josh's blog: http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/


<ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding}" Width="100" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{TemplateBinding Content}"
TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis"
TextWrapping="NoWrap" />
</DataTemplate>
</ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
</ComboBox>


<ComboBox Width="100" VerticalAlignment="Center" SelectedIndex="0">
<ComboBox.Resources>
<Style TargetType="ComboBoxItem">
<Setter Property="ContentTemplate">
<Setter.Value>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{TemplateBinding Content}"
TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis"/>
</DataTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</ComboBox.Resources>
<ComboBoxItem>Greetings from the planet known as Earth</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem>Thanks to Josh Smith for this tip!</ComboBoxItem>
</ComboBox>

Cheers, Karl

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Aaron Hickman11-Oct-08 17:22

Re: Solution: Re: Help with a WPF Combobox

11-Oct-08 17:22

I was just checking up on your blog. Good stuff. I really appreciate your help with this. I had a little bit of both in my attempts, I just could never get the right "combo". Thanks again.

User 27100911-Oct-08 17:29