Blacklight – Controls for Designers - v1.0 Released!

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Silverlight Cream for October 31, 2008 - 2 -- #416

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In this issue: John Stockton, Pierlag, Mel Lota, Ning Zhang, Carole Snyder, Martin Grayson, Jesse Liberty

re: Blacklight – Controls for Designers - v1.0 Released!

Vladimir — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:58:32 GMT

Thank you all for sharing these wonderful controls. I also like menu very much (hard to believe it’s mostly radio buttons). It would be nice to see something like this as a part of the controls library.

Small question if you have time to answer: how did you manage to have ClientBin\Images\ folder in the Blacklight.Silverlight.Web project without having it in the Blacklight.Silverlight.Demo? Did you have images in the Blacklight.Silverlight.Demo project as a Content at the beginning and than just moved folder with images to Blacklight.Silverlight.Web project to avoid them to be embedded inside of zap? Or probably there is a way to do this automatically.

Also I’ve been trying to embed image as a Resource (just as experiment) to be able to reference image source without leading slash (like this <samples:SampleImageViewer Source="Images/blacklight+vs2008.jpg" Margin="20" x:Name="blacklightVs" Loaded="Sample_Loaded" Visibility="Collapsed" />). It didn’t work for me in Blacklight. Why?

re: Blacklight – Controls for Designers - v1.0 Released!

Phill — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:29:21 GMT

Nice work, one small issue I've seen is with the Drag Drop demo; if docked left or right the margin around the minimzed panels can sometimes be too large leaving a row of thin panels with no 'expand' icon. The problem gets more obvious the more panels you add. Very nice though.

re: Blacklight – Controls for Designers - v1.0 Released!

Martin Grayson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:57:02 GMT

Hi Phill,

Its a fair spot. I left it purposely this way giving people the most flexibility. Some implmentations may be made to hand 50+ panels, others, no more than 8. A combination of margins, a suitable template, and extending the code to have a MaxPanel property should sort any issues!

Thanks for the feedback!

Martin

re: Blacklight – Controls for Designers - v1.0 Released!

Martin Grayson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:00:01 GMT

Hey Vladimir,

I hope to put the navigation in as a control at some point. The list keeps on growing!

The images are currently in the web project. I initially put them there as I definately only wanted the user to download as required, i.e. not have them packaged in the XAP, but you are right - they can live in the silverlight demo project as content that copies. This would also mean that eh showcase will work in Blend! I will move them across ASAP.

You may not be seeing the images because of the '+' in the the name. When I deplyed the showcase, the images just werent downloading. I removed the '+' and hey presto, they worked. Try getting the latest from the 'source code' tab on codeplex!

Thanks,

Martin

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re: Blacklight – Controls for Designers - v1.0 Released!

XREvo — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:43:21 GMT

Hi,

And thank you for those controls, but will the scroll able in the next version of the controls? (for the listbox, the combobox and the slider)

I can't use it, so if it's possible to use it tell me how please.

Thank you.

re: Blacklight – Controls for Designers - v1.0 Released!

Martin Grayson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:47:57 GMT

Hi XREvo - what do you mean by scrollable?

The list box and combo box has a scroll viewer build in.

Do you mean, with the Mouse Wheel? If so, then I will be adding some support for the December 5th release!

Thanks,

Martin

re: Blacklight – Controls for Designers - v1.0 Released!

Vimarsh Sharma — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:36:57 GMT

Hello Martin,

i m having 1 query about Changing the icons of pinned button, close button, etc.. on upper right corner of DragDockPanel.

Can u plz help me out of this problem.

How to change the Icons

Thanks

Vimarsh