SilverlightShow: Custom controls: Weather forecast control: Part 1 - Introduction Comments

RE: Custom controls: Weather forecast control: Part 1 - Introduction

lnikolov — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:58:38 GMT

The article has been updated to the latest version of Silverlight and Visual Studio.

RE: Custom controls: Weather forecast control: Part 1 - Introduction

Enrai — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:36:45 GMT

In the beginning of the article there is a live demo of the widget. ;)

RE: Custom controls: Weather forecast control: Part 1 - Introduction

Lost in Vista — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:27:11 GMT

You're kidding, right? It said View It, and this is all tech, and doesn't show how the widget would actually LOOK.

RE: Custom controls: Weather forecast control: Part 1 - Introduction

Silverlight Travel — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:45:04 GMT

How can we get the wether for other countries?

www.silverlight-travel.com/blog

RE: Custom controls: Weather forecast control: Part 1 - Introduction

Enrai — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:14:49 GMT

To remove the buttons, try removing/commenting them from the Themes/generic.xaml - the style for the AnimatedSlider, and then go to the AnimatedSlider.cs file and remove/comment everything related to the PreviousButton and the NextButton. The both are located in the ControlsLibrary project.

To handle the click on the images create a handler for the MouseLeftButtonDown or MouseLeftButtonUp event of the Image control in the ItemTemplate of the ItemsControl.

Hope this helps you, if you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask. :)

RE: Custom controls: Weather forecast control: Part 1 - Introduction

Rocky — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:59:35 GMT

This is really Nice. But is there a way where I can remove the left and Right button. I would want to tweak this control to use as a Carousel menu Control with Sub menus also as a Carousel. I donot want to have the right and left button. Also I need to have even handlers on clicking images on the Item control (the second set of images you displayed.)

I am pretty new to Siverlight.

RE: Custom controls: Weather forecast control: Part 1 - Introduction

Eric Kleeman — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:24:17 GMT

All this shows is a blank white spot in IE6, nice

RE: Custom controls: Weather forecast control: Part 1 - Introduction

Gus G. — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:42:17 GMT

Thanks for your response, I will try all of your suggestions. I will post any results here, again thank you for your help. Keep up the good work.

Gus G.

RE: Custom controls: Weather forecast control: Part 1 - Introduction

dejo — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:03:23 GMT

Hi Gus,

please see the update we posted it could be just what you need

http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Weather-control-update.aspx

Denislav Savkov

RE: Custom controls: Weather forecast control: Part 1 - Introduction

dejo — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:38:23 GMT

Hi Gus,

the functionality you are talking about is simple to implement but it raises a problem with the mouse dragging. I will try to post tomorrow an updated version that has this type of scrolling and try to keep the mouse dragging. I am taking ten days off but the next thing I'll be working on is probably something like a drag manager that helps with that and can be used on any object.

Right now there's a way to achieve what you want by making a few changes in the Template of the AnimatedSlider in generic.xaml. You need to adjust manually the size of the By property of the left and right animations to match the width of your container, currently it is set to 40. The width of you container is = control's Height / ItemHeight * ItemWidth. You also need to adjust the left and right button's Interval property to match the duration of the left/right animations. Here is a sample with control height 140, item height 120, item width 110

                                                                 Storyboard.TargetName="ItemsPresenter"
                                 Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Canvas.Left)"
                                 By="128.3" Duration="0:0:.2"/>


                                                                    Storyboard.TargetName="ItemsPresenter"
                                 Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Canvas.Left)"
                                 By="-128.3" Duration="0:0:.2"/>

This procedure is not convenient so we will try to add such functionality to the slider in future. Any feedback is welcome.

Denislav Savkov

RE: Custom controls: Weather forecast control: Part 1 - Introduction

Gus — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:42:31 GMT

Very nice,

I got some of the functionality of your control and use in a project where I need to display a list parts with description and images from an XML file. It is working OK, but I when I click the right or left button on the control it slide the content a little bit a the time to the left or right.

I need the control to go to the next or previous part . How can I use it so it will jump directly to the start of the next part or the position of the next part that I need to display. I seen some image slider example in the Internet that do what I need here, they just go to display the next full image when you click next.

Any help will be appreciated,

Gus G