Is there any way to layer a control on top of another. I wanted to put one label on top of another to build out a word. I am using Xamarin Studio and programming for the iWatch, watchOS2.
Unlike UIKit, there is no z-index, or hierarchy, in WatchKit for views. As far as I know, the closest you can get to this is to use a WKInterfaceGroup with a custom background. The hard way, which may get you the result you are looking for, is to render an image and display it.
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I am following a tutorial video on how to allow users to edit their profile. In this tutorial, they are using storyboards and I am not. I was wondering, do I have to use storyboards in order to follow along? Or can I use their code to plug into mine without the storyboard?
According to Apple documentation:
A storyboard is a visual representation of the user interface of an
iOS application, showing screens of content and the connections
between those screens. A storyboard is composed of a sequence of
scenes, each of which represents a view controller and its views;
scenes are connected by segue objects, which represent a transition
between two view controllers.
As you are probably guessing, storyboards contain information about widgets, animations, views that are required by the code you will be adding to yours. Additionally, Storyboards also contain the connection between the visual elements and the code (outlets and actions). All of that can be created programmatically but the code you will be pasting from this tutorial, if it's coming from a project that includes storyboards, won't contain this associated logic.
So, at this point, it would seem highly unwise to add complexity to your tutorial to recreate these elements at once. What I would suggest is for you to follow the tutorial and then try to remove some of these elements and replace them by code to obtain similar results just as an exercise to learn. Keep in mind that Storyboards have been around to simplify the design of UI in the application, so I would recommend for you to master their usage instead of shying away from them.
I was playing with Xamarin Mobile api MediaPicker which uses MediaRecorder with monodroid to make a plugin to record a video.
Android must preview the video inside a VideoView. This restriction applies to wp7 and ios too for privacy.
So, I need to get the VideoView (or Rectangle in wp7) from my custom view and setPreviewDisplay to this VideoView in my plugin (or init MediaPicker with this VideoView).
What is the best way to implement my portable plugin which requires UI element ?
Thanks in advance for your help.
What is the best way to implement my portable plugin which requires UI element ?
I guess my first question is "do you need a portable plugin?"
What is the interface that you actually need at the ViewModel layer or lower?
My guess is that the cross-platform interface that the ViewModel will see might contain just:
some control commands (things like start/stop)
some summary information - e.g. video length
a file access layer - this may be as little as a file path?
If that's the case, then I'd probably implement most of the logic within Controls/Views/UIViews in the UIs, and would then bind the relevant commands and values to those ViewModel properties.
So I wouldn't personally implement this as a plugin at all!
I've previously done a couple of apps which use video views - one for video capture (Android only), one for bar code scanning.
I found that the basic available samples worked quite well. However, once I started trying to extend them, then they became quickly fragile, they were hard to get working and they were quite frustrating to develop!
I would genuinely recommend starting your current develop as UI View code. After you've got it working, then you might find a nice way to split up the control and interface into a plugin - but I suspect that this won't be where most of your time is spent.
e.g. for my next QR code app, I plan to use the separate UI controls in https://github.com/Redth/ZxingSharp.Mobile - at the ViewModel level, I can hopefully just expose some sort of Command which acts on the decoded QR strings.
Several iLife '11 applications on the Mac use iOS-style black toolbars. For instance, the toolbar at the bottom of this screenshot of iPhoto:
(source: pocket-lint.com)
This sort of look is available in the iOS SDK as "UITabBar."
I am wondering if there is an easy way to achieve this in my ordinary, non-iOS Mac application. If not, what would be the best way to go about creating this effect?
There's nothing that will give you this view out of the box. You'll need to build it yourself.
The simplest method would be to create a custom view with a gradient background and place monochrome buttons in it.
Better would be to create a set of classes similar to NSToolBar that handle positioning, highlighting etc. Even better, build it and then open-source it :-)
However, you'll have to build it yourself. Apart from NSButton there's not much that will help in the pre-existing objects.
I want to make an app that shows pictures. But I want to be able to zoom in and out with gestures. I fixed this by including a toolkit into my project. But my actual question is, can I use or is there a control that's already created for me to show pictures like the picture library of the WP7 phone itself. I thought there wasn't but the Facebook app has a similar way of showing the pictures. Did Facebook rewrite the whole thing or is there a control somewhere that someone made?
The SlideView control in Telerik's RadControls for Windows Phone sounds like what you're looking for.
Have you tried a MultiScaleImage control? It's designed to work with multiple layers, but if you only specify one layer, it might suit what you're trying to do.
This is kind of vague as the control has not been designed yet and I thought I would ask before going with it.
I will have a control that shows an object within Silverlight.
The user can rotate the object etc.
Now, the user needs to be able to copy what they see to an image. Is this possible somehow, or do I have to render it somewhere else?
So it's not a screenshot per se, but a printable image of a specific control / area of the screen.
http://blog.blueboxes.co.uk/2009/07/21/rendering-xaml-to-a-jpeg-using-silverlight-3/
In Silverlight 3 there is way to write XAML to WriteableBitmap. Technique is shown in above blog.