August 2009 - Posts

Selection Brush
28 August 09 06:29 PM | text | 2 Comments   

The default visual appearance of most objects in WPF can be easily tweaked, if not swapped out for a completely different visual tree. This provides developers far greater power over the visual look of an application than ever before. Facilitating the Read More...

Filed under: decorative text, WPF 4.0

Layout Rounding
27 August 09 08:41 AM | text | 6 Comments   

WPF’s layout engine frequently gives elements s ub-pixel positions. Antialiasing algorithms cause these sub-pixel positioned elements to be rendered over multiple physical pixels after filtering. This can result in blurry lines and other non desirable Read More...

Filed under: pixel snapping, WPF 4.0

WPF 4.0 Text Stack Improvements
24 August 09 07:23 PM | text | 30 Comments   

Please note that the screenshots in this post are not displaying correctly. To view them in their full fidelity, right click on them and save them as a .PNGs. Then use your image viewing program of choice. Text Formatting API The attached property TextOptions.TextFormattingMode Read More...

Back to WPF Text Blog
22 August 09 01:29 AM | text | 0 Comments   

Since DirectWrite will now be using a different blog, the name of this blog will return to WPF Text Blog. - Chipalo Read More...