I'm trying to find a tutorial or book, that explain who to make a menu application, like the iPod/iPad menu, with images as buttons, and pages. What i'm trying to do, is a menu, with a Popover window, when an option from the popover is selected, then the menu is filled (with code) with the buttons/images, that can be located in more then a page.
Thanks you in advance
Okay there are two things you can use here:
The Three20 library , which has several extra components you can use as well: repository here
If you want just a view similar to that and nothing else, you can go with myLauncher: repository here
I know there are probably more, but these were the main two I looked at when I went looking for a similar view.
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I've bundle of control save in .vcx file but I need to activate it to display it when i switch to different activepage in pageframe.
Could anyone guide me how to code and which kinds of event should i make on page frame switch, click or whatelse UIENABLEEVENT.
Thanks.
First, you might want to click on Help -> Tour for site etiquette and start voting / checking your answers so people know what worked or not that help you and others with similar issues.
Now, back to you question... If you have a form with a pageframe, make sure you have the "Properties" sheet open, it helps to ensure which object you are actually working with until you get more familiar with the IDE.
Once you click on the pageframe control, if you right-click and then select "Edit", that will bring you to the individual PAGE level of the pageframe. Once the PAGE is the basis of the focus you can put any control on it from either the toolbar, or if your project is open and you expand your .VCX class library, you can grab any control and put in on the page.
If you have multiple pages, once you click on the alternate pages, you will see that the first page (or whatever page) is no longer visible and the new page is available for you.
The actual handling of the pages on the pageframe for clicking / focus is automatically handled for you unless you want to do something extra.
What is the best way to create a view for a single control that I need to load into a Shell region in a Prism app. I know I can wrap the control in a UserControl, but I suspect there may be a better way.
I am working on a demo app to learn Prism 4. Each module will load a navigation button into an ItemsControl in a region in the Shell. These navigation buttons will function like the Mail, Calendar, and other buttons in Outlook.
I am creating the view in each module that will hold the module's navigation button. The simplest way to create the view seems to be to wrap it in a UserControl. My question is this: Is there a better way to do it? Thanks for your help.
If you need graphical control, what you are doing is the way to go. If you find yourself making all of the buttons look the same (copy - pasting) you might find that a menu registration service is the way to go.
You'd have a service like IMenuService that you register with your container and modules can come around and register menu items to. You can then create buttons for the module. I've provided a sample for this here:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/376992/CAGMenus.zip
Your question, though, seems to be about whether or not you need to wrap a control in a UserControl to register them with a region? If that's the question, I believe the answer is no, although you might amend your question to tell us what you are running up against that makes you think this.
I ended up wrapping the control in a UserControl, and it seems to work fine. I am still interested in seeing if there is a better way to load the button, so I will hold this question open for a few days.
Edit 02/22/2011: I tried using a control without a UserControl wrapper, and I got the following error:
Library project file cannot specify ApplicationDefinition element.
I wrapped the control in a UserControl and the error went away.
One of client of my projects has asked me to aggregate two different modules in one menu tab.
He needs like, if a user clicks on One Menu Tab, he needs a picture gallery and video gallery to be shown all together.
I have checked that it is possible by creating a category layout of each of them.But the thing is I cannot figure out how to show both of them together, under a single Menu Tab.
Please guide me!
Thanks in advance.
I might be misunderstanding you but can't you just publish both modules in the same module placeholder and assign them to the menu?
Hi all
I am a newby app developer infact I am still in high school, I am making a radio app and I have made the channel list using interface builder (mainwindow.xib in xcode) now I want to be able to click on a link/button in the main window and that take me too a new page in the app where I can have a play button and maybe a symbol etc. I know it is probably a trivial question but I am stumped, but how do I go about doing this if someone could place it out in step by step or even a few screenshots it really would be apreciated?
Many Thanks in advance
David
So, basically you want to be able to use a UIButton to take you to an entirely new view controller? Well, for your particular case, I'd recommend trying a Tab bar controller. When you create a new application, it gives you an option for what type of template you want, and Tab bar controller is one of them. This creates a black bar across the bottom that lets you cycle between several different independent view controllers. Just create a new tab bar application, and copy/paste your existing code into one of the views, then use the other one(s) to do whatever else you have in mind. Hope this helps!
So I have a PRISM v2 (M-V-VM) application up and running. It's 4 modules that load into a tab control. Great.
Now my question is - where to go from here? Most tutorials seem to stop at this point.
Maybe I'm overthinking this, but it almost seems like I'd need each module to be its own PRISM application, but that can't be right.
Please help a PRISM n00b figure out where to go from here.
What I'm looking to do next: Each tab (module) has its own toolbar with buttons, etc. Clicking a button should change the content (view) below the toolbar.
How to achieve this (correctly) with PRISM? Each module (tab) should have control over its content, however, clicking cetain buttons in one tab may trigger an event in another tab (hence the use of PRISM).
So what's the correct-PRISM way to change views within a module?
I think you are thinking about this a bit hard. I'll explain.
What is commonly referred to as the "Shell" should contain all of your navigation controls. For example, if I wanted a tabbed UI, my Shell would contain a tab control (usually you'd decorate that TabControl with a RegionName, like "ShellTabs").
Your Modules will contribute views to these shell elements. So let's say you have the email module, it will contribute an inbox view to your collection of tabs. It could contribute these views by registering them with the RegionManager for the app (like registering your view with the Region called "ShellTabs").
Modules don't have to contribute anything visual. I have one module in our app that takes care of logging and other background processes.
Hopefully this clears up some of the nomenclature and helps you know what the responsibility of each part is.