Intersoft Community - UXDock

UxDock Error

Darkdevil79 — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:21:09 GMT

I have just download the tools and installed. After looking at the sample , i started to intergate them into my UI but after i add the below code

<Intersoft:UXDock DockPosition="Left">

<Intersoft:UXDockButton Text="Home" Icon="Home.png"/>

<Intersoft:UXDockButton Text="Clock" Icon="Clock.png"/>

<Intersoft:UXDockButton Text="Picture" Icon="Picture.png"/>

<Intersoft:UXDockButton Text="Mail" Icon="Mail.png"/>

<Intersoft:UXDockSeparator/>

<Intersoft:UXDockButton Text="Document" Icon="Document.png" StackMode="GridStyle">

<Intersoft:UXStackItem Text="Video" Icon="Video.png"/>

<Intersoft:UXStackItem Text="Photo" Icon="Photo.png"/>

<Intersoft:UXStackItem Text="Music" Icon="Mp3.png"/>

<Intersoft:UXStackItem Text="Text" Icon="Text.png"/>

</Intersoft:UXDockButton>

</Intersoft:UXDock>

I get blend tell me that there is an error in the xaml

" Value does not fail within the expected range "

If i remove the dock xaml then all works fine , what have i done wrong ?

Handling WindowCommands like Close, Minimize, and Maximize?

chrisaswain — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:35:53 GMT

I'm using the UXDesktop control bound to an ItemsSource to generate my UXWindow objects. I need to be able to handle some of the commands fired by the windows such as Close, Minimize and Maximize. I've tried the following, but it doesn't seem to capture the Close command when I click the close button of the UXWindow object.

    public partial class RootView : ViewBase
    {
        public RootView(RootViewModel viewModel)
            : base(viewModel)
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            CommandBinding windowCloseCommandBinding = new CommandBinding(WindowCommands.Close, HandleWindowClose);
            // Create the CommandBindingCollection to hold the command binding
            CommandBindingCollection bindingCollection = new CommandBindingCollection();
            bindingCollection.Add(windowCloseCommandBinding);
 
            // Set the binding collection to the layout root
            CommandManager.SetCommandBindings(this, bindingCollection);
        }
 
        private void HandleWindowClose(object sender, ExecutedRoutedEventArgs e)
        {
 
        }
    }

How can I capture and handle the commands fired from my UXWindow objects in my UXDesktop?

 
You can run the attached sample project to see that the HandleWindowCommand method is never invoked even though I'm doing the CommandBinding to the WindowCommands.Close and Minimize commands.

UXDesktop with bound ItemsSource errors when associated to TaskBar...

chrisaswain — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:58:55 GMT

The attached sample project demonstrates the error I'm getting.

Basically, I have a UXDesktop control with a bound ItemsSource to a collection of "WindowItem" objects. I have subclassed the UXDesktop control so I can override the GetContainerForItemOverride() method and output UXWindow objects for each bound item.

I get an InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'SilverlightPlayground.WindowItem' to type 'Intersoft.Client.Framework.IWindow' when I try to associate a UXDesktopDock control with the TaskBar property of the UXDesktop control.

Can anyone help me figure out how to properly associate a UXDesktopDock control to a UXDesktop control when it's ItemsSource is bound to a collection of items that are not IWindow objects?

UXDock with horizontal scrolling?

chrisaswain — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:12:29 GMT

I'm in the process of evaluating the UXDock control, and I love what I see. However, my project has a requirement that the UXDock bar be able to accomodate a large number of UXDockButtons. As it stands, the control simply cuts off some of the controls on either end if the UXDock control size exceeds the size of the Silverlight app it is in.

Is there a way to make the UXDock control scroll the UXDock buttons in the event that there are too many to fix on the screen? Specifically, it would be nice to have hidden arrow buttons on the left and right that would facilitate scrolling on the MouseEnter event.

See the attached PNG for a rough example.

UXDock Problems

qualco — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:16:10 GMT

Hello it seems that if I set IsEnabled= false and then true before UXDock is visible, buttons look disabled although after I move mouse on top it is fixed.

See project attached

Thanks

UXDock and Buttons

qualco — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:06:35 GMT

Is it possible to always display text of UXDockButton, I know this is not standard Apple UI but it would be usable

Thanks

UXDock Performance

Syllus — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:42:35 GMT

I have noticed that in the online demo's as well as new projects created with the UXDock control the rendering performance when moving the cursor acorss the dock items is really really choppy, pretty much unusable in fact.

I wanted to inquire to see if others were experienceing this same thing. Even on a new desktop app solution the zooming features are horribly slow.

My development machine is a dual core 3.00 GHz with 3 GB RAM anda GeForce 7800 w/ 256mb RAM. By no means a high end system, but one would think that it is more then sufficient to render a simple skeleton application and a couple animated controls.

Is there something I might be able to do to fix the issue, is this just a fact of life with silverlight that we are stuck with unusable rendering performance on anything running less then 4 cores, or are others running this fine with acceptable performance on similar machines and my machine is just wonked out?

Thanks for any enlightenment in advance.

Bug in UXDock

qualco — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:07:57 GMT

It seems when you have a UXDockButton on dock with stack items you show all stack items behind the image of UXDockButton. You can see it at your own sample.

I am enclosing a picture to show it.

BTW this is at the RTM version

UXDock problem

jeejee — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:11:36 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to use UXDock inside the ClientUIApplication MainPage.xaml. What I would like to do is to have the UXDock on the right hand side in one of the grid elements (Dock="Right"). I have managed to create the dock element and it seems to work.

However, when I attempt to put a sub-menu using the UXDockButton with the StackMode="GridStyle" and within that put in UXNavigationButton elements I am finding it impossible to use the NavigateURI attribute on the UXNavigationButton. It keeps erroring out or is not able to launch one of my view pages.

Here is the fragment:

<Intersoft:UXDockButton Content="Master Files" Icon="/JTS2;component/Assets/Images/CustomersFolder.png" StackMode="GridStyle" TextImageRelation="ImageAboveText"> <Intersoft:UXNavigationButton Content="Test" Icon="/JTS2;component/Assets/Images/Home.png" GlassBackground="Azure" IsDefaultNavigationSource="True" TextImageRelation="ImageAboveText" IsToggleButton="False" NavigateUri=""/> <Intersoft:UXNavigationButton Content="Company" Icon="/JTS2;component/Assets/Images/my_contacts.png" TextImageRelation="ImageAboveText" IsToggleButton="False" NavigateUri="/CompanyView.xaml" /> <Intersoft:UXNavigationButton Content="Designations" Icon="/JTS2;component/Assets/Images/notepad.png" NavigateUri="/DesignationView" TextImageRelation="ImageAboveText" IsToggleButton="False" /> </Intersoft:UXDockButton> I am attempting to launch the page inside the UXFrame which has the UriMapper in it (as per the normal example that has been provided)

Please could you let me know what I am doing incorrectly

Thanks

Jeejee