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RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

ppopadiyn — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:44:23 GMT

Hi Nrj,

Thanks about your idea for using ViewBox. Thus the control could be scaled in custom size. :)

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Nitin Rajora — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:14:40 GMT

Actually if you must know, ....referring to the file AnalogClockV2.xaml, I tried Putting the Grid which is drawing the Analog Clock V2 INSIDE A ViewBox which is a Silverlight control, gave me ability to resize the control as a single UNIT.

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

ppopadiyn — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:38:28 GMT

Hello Nrj,

Unfortunately, the curent implementation (design) of the control does not allow you resizing:-(.

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Nrj — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:39:01 GMT

Hey Pencho,

A great piece of work.. it works all fine and shiny and integrates in minutes..
I needed to know whether it's possible to be able to resize it. And how to do it with respect to this control !!??

Thanks for spreading the awesomeness of Silverlight!

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

ppopadiyn — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:49:19 GMT

Hello Reddy,

Thank you for intereset in the Silverlight AnalogClock. Well, looking at the code now, I should admit that the control is not very well designed in terms of customization and extensibility. To set your own time, you should change the following code:

In ClockBase.cs, take a look at the timer_Tick event handler.The call to the UpdateClockData method updates the digital clock. For example: this.UpdateClockData(DateTime.Now.AddHours(1));
The second place in the AnalogClock_v2.xaml.cs class. There you should modify the XXX_Loaded event handlers according to your logic. For example: this.HoursHandStoryboard.Seek( DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay.Add( TimeSpan.FromHours( 1 ) ) );

Hope that will help you a little bit.

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Reddy — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:07:12 GMT

Great work. Is it possible to set my own time in this control? i tried to do that, but didn't work. any help on this is appreciated.

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Anjali — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:40:28 GMT

Nice Stuff

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

ppopadiyn — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:32:14 GMT

Hi Brandon,

The problem is in the ClockBase class, line 84 ( in the timer_Tick event handler). I invoke the UpdateClockData method with "DateTime.Now" as an argument. So probably, you should change the logic in that line, to consider your initial time. The second place where you should change the logic is in the AnalogClock_v2.xaml.cs (in the code-behind). You should adjust the StoryboardHands according to the new date time. Too many changes for a single request, which means bad design :)

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Brandon — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:10:41 GMT

Thanks for this demo. I have a question though. When initialize the clock with a different time from DateTime.Now

   TimeSpan ts = new TimeSpan(0, 10, 0);

   IClockModel clockModel = Clock.Create();
   clockModel.ClockData = new ClockData().Update(ts);
   ClockPresenter presenter = new ClockPresenter(this.AnalogClockControl_v2, clockModel);

   presenter.Response += new Callback(this.AnalogClockControl_v2.Update);
   clockModel.Start();

The clock still displays the value for DateTime.Now. Why is that?

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Harinath — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:26:41 GMT

very nice.I liked it very much.

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Samuel — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:12:16 GMT

Thanks for your publishing this article. Liked it very much.

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Mauri — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:15:38 GMT

Really cool. Gives me hope with Silverlight !!

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

hoanghuu — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:03:16 GMT

Thanks!

I love it

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Scott — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:33:59 GMT

Would you happen to have another version that has the ability to size the clock to any dimension?

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

ppopadiyn — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:48:09 GMT

Hi Adrian

Thanks for the nice words, I am not good in making a good design, but much to my surprise the second version of the clock is really good. So about your question, you don't need to make any additional efforts to integrate the clock in your web page. You should download the sources, take the .xap file and integrate it in your HTML or ASP page. That is the only thing you need to do.

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Adrian — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:34:30 GMT

Thanks for the demo, really good looking clock.

What would be the easiest way to add this clock to my page using your existing code?

Regards

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Alex — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:38:00 GMT

Great! Looks really nice, thanks for sharing! Keep up good work

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Abderrahmane — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:07:14 GMT

Thanks for sharing

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Philip — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:28:44 GMT

Outstanding!

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Rajesh Nirala — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:14:45 GMT

Very nice demo

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

ppopadiyn — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:09:12 GMT

Hi Geetha

You can read the 'Get Started' section on the site ;). If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to ask us.

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

ghjghjghj — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:14:33 GMT

Nice Demoooo

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Geetha — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:13:08 GMT

hey guys,

i am new to this....but i am very interested to try this ...how can i do that can anybody help...me

how to install this silverlight and wat are all the requirements....

waiting for ur replyyyy

gitajetty@gmail.com

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

ppopadiyn — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:03:34 GMT

Hi Tim

Thanks for the idea, in fact it is much better than the current realization. The clock hands are drawn exactly in the way you have described, the same solution can also be done and for drawing the clock markers and it will reduce the markup used now. Thanks again for sharing your idea.

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Tim — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:07:29 GMT

i have learned your article, and very appreciated.

when i develop this lesson, a idea come to me and i think all the Marker and the hands can be realized by RotateTranform which are gived the angle and the CenterX and CenterY. Do you agree with me?

Thanks again for your article.

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

ppopadiyn — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:16:43 GMT

Hello guys,

First, thank you for the nice words.

Ilia, obviously you have a trained eye. Yes, sometimes there is a problem. But I don't know the reasons. The storyboards responsible for hands moving are entirely declared in XAML. The only think I do in procedural code is to start them. I mean, I don't have any business logic connected to the storyboard. This led me to think that the problem is maybe in the plugin, but I am not sure, I must investigate it. In order to work - around the problem the clock is synchronized in each minute. That's why sometimes you can see a little flicking by the hands. But this happen only when the storyboard is not in tact.

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

iiordanov — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:03:18 GMT

Hi Pencho,

Great article, congratulations!

There is one thing I would like to share with you though. I noticed that sometimes there is small difference (2-5 sec) between the time shown by the clock hands and the one shown by the digital clock. Do you know why this happens? Thanks.

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

davidjjon — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:30:09 GMT

Awesome work!

Thank you for sharing this.

David Roh

RE: Developing Silverlight AnalogClock – part 2 – Enhancing the view

Parag Mehta — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:25:44 GMT

Great Demo!

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