Is there a way to show text along with the icons permanently rather than when a user clicks the "..."?
Or should I instead just use standard buttons instead of the application bar?
As far as i know there is no way to achieve what you are telling.. the user should click on the "..." to see the menu...
http://www.windowsphonegeek.com/articles/Things-to-consider-when-using-WP7-Application-Bar
http://windows-mobile-dev.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-use-application-bar-in-windows.html
I would say, if you have maxium two buttons to display on the page, you will probably be fine with standard text buttons, like the screenshot below from the windows phone marketplace. However, you probably don't want any icons on them.
Also try putting a rectangle behind the buttons so it looks like an application bar. :)
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Is there any way to add back button, more options button like (log out, help, manage) to our outlook add-ons.I googled it, but end up with no answers relevant to that. Currently, I'm doing it by placing images of back button below the plugin title panel.
I expect this to be on the title panel so that it looks better.is there any ways to do that?
Thanks in advance !
Using command bar, tab bar and back button are the recommended UX design pattern for navigation in Office add-ins.
I often need loading panel, which shows an indeterminate progressbar and a textblock in fullscreen mode. I do this with a Grid and just set the visibilty so visible. Instead of copy source code from page to page, I want to re-use it as a control. Is there already an existing control I can use?
Create your own usercontrol is the best way if you want to reuse the control. There are a lot of guides on Google, search for "custom user control silverlight" or something similar.
I'm developing for Windows 8 (WInRT) and have problem with settings charm. Settings popup is based on Microsoft SDK settings charm. Settings panel is Popup. Content is wrapped by ScrollViewer -> Grid -> StackPanel. In StackPanel I have input fields. when I trying to fill last of them on screen keyboard overlaying it and I cant see field and cant scroll to it. Is there any way to see it and to scroll to it automatically?
Seems like the popups on Windows 8 suffer from the same problem as they did on Windows Phone in that when you put a TextBox on one of them - it does not get pushed up together with all the other content as it does when it is not in a popup.
My solution to that would be to not use popup for input fields and instead go for a layout that you can manage yourself.
By default the app has a Frame control at its visual root. You can modify it for example by putting your own UserControl in there (I usually call it AppShell) which has the Frame used by all pages, you can have a layer for popups, log in screens, the extended splash screen etc.
To solve your problem you would need to put your charm's UI inside of such layer instead of in a popup. Then the build-in mechanism that pushes all the UI up when the on-screen keyboard would otherwise obstruct the view of your TextBox should just start working again.
*EDIT
A simpler solution might be to make sure your settings panel popup is parented in your visual tree - e.g. by adding it as a child element to a root grid of your app or page. It turns out that in that case its content does get pushed up when the OSK shows up.
Take a look at this post
It's a popup wrapper (turns user controls into popups) that takes care of the keyboard appearing and adjusts the size of the popup (and thus the user control) accordingly.
On Windows Mobile 7, when a user clicks on a text box before entering some data - the screen usually zooms in to the box and pulls up the keyboard.
Is there a way to prevent the zoom? Or is this a setting on the phone itself?
Thanks gents - but the answer I needed was to include a viewport meta tag that defined the 'user-scalable' parameter as 'no'. Anyone grappling with mobile device cross browser compatibility issues should check this page out - a huge help to me today.
http://davidbcalhoun.com/2010/viewport-metatag
This usually happens in the web browser as the textbox could be tiny when it is clicked. I agree it can be annoying. It does not happen in native apps however.
if you click on a textbox in the app, and it is under the area where the keyboard would be.
It is normal behavior when text box is focused. Your content is moving up when on screen keyboard is appearing.
if you want your content to stay on it's place you can try to use Coding4fun controls(download with sample here: http://coding4fun.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets). Run Test Application, go to Promts -> Basic input or Advanced input.
I'm trying to replicate the input box shown in the image on windows mobile 5+
but i'm struggling for ideas!
So far the only things I have come up with (I haven't managed to make either work) were to either;
inherit TextBox and paint the textbox
background manually by overriding
OnPaint/OnPaintBackground
make the textbox background
transparent and position the
textbox over an image that looked
like the one in the screen shot
Has anybody done this or know of how this could be acheived?
Thanks in advance
OneShot
I gave up on this as I have moved away from windows mobile but found that it wasn't possible, due to restrictions in the compact framework, to do this with the existing textbox, you would need to create your own texbox control from scratch!