How can I convert a rectangle into a motion path in windows phone using expression blend, I don't have that option under the Path settings?
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Just getting into Windows Phone 8.1 development.
I quite like it but I am struggling getting accurate development info.
I am working with the Page.BottomAppBar.
I want to use an png image I have created as one of the buttons.
Does this image I created have to be:
A certain size
A certain format
A certain choice of colors i.e. i can use multiple colors and not just black and white
I am looking to create a 'Login' button you see.
thanks
Please, check the official Microsoft guidelines for app bars for Windows store and guidelines for windows phone. Guidelines cover icons, sizes and formats. It's better to follow them in designing visual style of your app.
does anybody know how to render these emoticons in Windows given the unicode charcode?
It looks like this icons or font are native to apple (as sayed here) but I don't know which one I can choose to render these glyphs in Windows
Thanks
If whatever you're using to display your text is working correctly and the user has a suitable font installed, then you don't need to do anything. Font substitution will take care of that and choose a font that contains glyphs for those characters.
Windows since 8.1 ships with Segoe UI Emoji, however, if you absolutely need a font to specify explicitly.
What are the parallel (equivalent) tiles of FlipTile, IconicTyle, CycleTile from WP8 in Windows 8?
There are a lot in Windows 8 and they seem static.
Thanks!!!
There are no direct parallels with the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 tile templates.
While Windows Phone uses a "flip" to show multiple pieces of information on a single tile, Windows 8 uses a "peep" or slide animation to move between multiple tile faces. You should use whichever of the peek templates is most appropriate to the data you wish to display on the tile.
There is no direct equivalent of the WP8 IconicTileTemplate.
The nearest similar templates are TileSquareBlock or TileWideBlockAndText0X as these allow a large number to be displayed, but no icon.
The nearest thing Windows8 has to the CycleTileTemplate is TileWideImageCollection as that is the Win8 way of showing multiple images.
For Ref: List of Win8 Tile templates
I'm trying to get the icon from the .exe file using the following APIs:
SHGetFileInfoW() SHGetImageList() and from the ImageList thus obtained I read the icon by calling GetIcon().
When the color depth of the machine is set to 32bit I get the 32bit color icon. The issue is when I change the machine's color depth to 24 or 16 bit then I get a 16bit color icon and this image seems to be corrupted.
I also checked for the list of available icons in some of the common windows applications (notepad, paint etc) and some of the office applications, none of had 16bit or 24 bit color icons.
What would be the best way to get the proper icons from the executable file ?
Thanks !
You can load exe's using LoadLibraryEx, and then extract the icons using LoadImage - or - if you want direct access to the icons data: FindResource, LoadResource, LockResource will give you a pointer to the icon's resources bits.
Windows Vista and Windows 7 display semi-transparent forms when Aero is activated. And some screen-taking applications such as WinSnap or Windows Clippings are able to capture those windows as a semi-transparent PNG image. What Windows API are they using to obtain such a beautiful capture ?
There isn't any, to my knowledge. If you look closely, at least WindowClippings takes two separate screenshots. One with white background and one with black background. It then uses those two screenshots to calculate the transparency of the glass pixels.