I'm working with a Windows Forms Application (.net/c#)
Using MetroFramework. Home page contains some MetroTiles. I need to focus on first tile when I launch Home page.
I Can do this focus is working fine. but it could show any indication for selected/focused tile at all. I could not find any properties.
In above image back Tile is selected now. but could not identify this as user and when I press 'enter' BACK button functionality is working fine. Same for other tiles also. Please help.
There is no property, but you can use the 'selected' event to change something yourself, like a slightly changed color or drawing a thin line around it.
As far as I know Metro still hasn't a built in a functionality for this case.
So try to use the workaround if possible.
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As a learning project in C# .net I am re-creating a Gnome 3 plugin for seeing who of the streamers you follow on Twitch is live. I have the settings form done, I am now working on the interface that is viewed from a click on the taskbar.
This is a rough image of what I want the interface to look like. When two or more streamers are live the interface would add another block and resize the form vertically similar to the menu for selecting a Wifi network in Windows.
What would be the best way for me to complete this?
My current thought is to maybe create a custom control and just place those inside a FlowLayoutPanel with some kind of code to change the vertical size of the form to match the added entries. Maybe this can be done without a custom control and be done with code inside a FlowLayoutPanel? I'm not too sure.
Ideally I would also have a click event in the panel for each streamer so I could then open a browser to their channel. A slight highlight would also be a plus (maybe change the background colour based on mouse hover).
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
I am using Windows 8 and getting my feet wet with WPF and one of the things that is bugging me is that buttons don't change color when they are being pressed like they would in a WinForms program.
I tried searching and oddly enough I can't see anyone else discussing this so I almost think it's something specific with my setup although as far as I can tell I haven't changed anything that would do this.
The button changes color when I hover over it and when I click it doesn't change, it still looks like I am just hovering.
Is this what it is supposed to do and if so what is the best way to override this and still respect the user's theme colors?
Thanks
UPDATE
To demonstrate what I mean here are screen shots showing a standard button in Windows 7 compared to Windows 8. What I am trying to figure out is how to make WPF button in Windows 8 behave like any other button and make it look like the button is getting pressed in when you press it.
I'm writing a windows 8 app wich basically does nothing when you open it (everything is done in background task and the user doesn't see it) so I need to display a kind of slideshow on the main page of the app just so it looks like something and not just a blank page.
My problem is I can't use the pivot app template, I need to start from a blank template.
So I'd like to know what is the most simple way of doing this ? By the way, I need the slideshow to switch between the images automatically (with a timer that I can set) but the user can switch himself if he wants to
Thank you :)
You say You can't use the pivot app template and want to start using a blank template.
You can however add pivot as a control once you start with a blank template.
If Not using pivot is your aim, then try panorama.
Start from a blank template and add panorama control to it. Panorama can also help you to get a nice sliding effect like in a slideshow.
you can have images in stackpanel and detect Flick Gestures whether left to right or viceversa through HorizontalVelocity of Flick events.
i have create a few WPF applications in visual studio, and now i would like to create a final application to run all of the created apps in the final application. i would like to know how i can create a layout that displays the apps that are running inside the final app as buttons that can be clicked and cause the app to expand and allow the user to work on that app and then when finished return back to the final app and see the other apps to choose from. I imagine it would look like a Google chrome blank page that allows you see your familiar webpages and click on them to load them up. Any help or advice on what i should focus on to implement this would be much appreciated.
Thank you for taking the time to read over this.
Consider using a VisualBrush this takes other WPF UI (your "apps") and uses their UI as a brush for another UI element.
Raj Kumar has a simple article called Visual Brush in WPF for details.
The bit you probably want is at the bottom where he shows you rendering a controls content in another control. The magic being binding the controls visual to the element name whos UI it should render.
I am creating a fullscreen demo application (demo = not production, so hacky code is okay though not preferred) for the Kinect SDK. The application hides the Windows cursor and shows a custom hand cursor which is defined as a object.
What I would like to do is create a custom UserControl (let's call it "HoverControl") that can detect when the cursor object is over it and then send back timer ticks, allowing the cursor object to update in some way (showing the user that something is about to happen).
The behavior is pretty much a copy of the Xbox 360 Kinect behavior. How things look will just be a little different.
How can I detect with the cursor object is over a "HoverControl" and have receive a callback from the HoverControl?
Thank you for any help or suggestions!
CLARIFICATION:
I am not currently moving the Windows cursor, so MouseEnter doesn't fire.
You can use your own cursor by making one using Online Cursor Maker. See this website on how to set it. Then you can use MouseEnter and/or MouseLeave.
Coding my own cursor in XAML, and creating a UserControl out of it, I set up a timer inside the control to perform a hit test for certain buttons (again, their own unique UserControl type) around my interface.
I ran into one issue with the hit test, which I was ultimately able to solve and detail in the following post at MSDN:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/a8cdb265-21cc-4fd0-b40d-e6778b659852