Markup: New global feature.

 

We are preparing new Markup feature for 12.0 release that will be supported by all our controls - its something like HTML rendering, but based on XAML tags.

 

 

If you know XAML, please test these samples, try enter some markup to our sample and XamlPad from Microsoft SDK and find difference of rendering/clipping/XML parsing/etc

 

 

Samples:

 

Supported tags:

Page               (Margin, ClipToBound, HorizontalAlignment, VerticalAlignment, Width, Height, MinWidth, MaxWidth, MinHeight, MaxHeight,)
Border             (Margin, ClipToBound, HorizontalAlignment, VerticalAlignment, Width, Height, MinWidth, MaxWidth, MinHeight, MaxHeight, Padding, Background, BorderThickness, BorderBrush)
TextBlock          (Margin, ClipToBound, HorizontalAlignment, VerticalAlignment, Width, Height, MinWidth, MaxWidth, MinHeight, MaxHeight, Padding, Background, Foreground, TextWrapping, TextAlignment, TextDecorations, FontSize, FontWeight, FontFamily, FontStyle)
Image              (Margin, ClipToBound, HorizontalAlignment, VerticalAlignment, Width, Height, MinWidth, MaxWidth, MinHeight, MaxHeight, Source)
Panel              (Margin, ClipToBound, HorizontalAlignment, VerticalAlignment, Width, Height, MinWidth, MaxWidth, MinHeight, MaxHeight, Background
  StackPanel       (Margin, ClipToBound, HorizontalAlignment, VerticalAlignment, Width, Height, MinWidth, MaxWidth, MinHeight, MaxHeight, Background, Orientation)
  Canvas           (Margin, ClipToBound, HorizontalAlignment, VerticalAlignment, Width, Height, MinWidth, MaxWidth, MinHeight, MaxHeight, Background, Left, Right, Top, Bottom)
  Grid             (Margin, ClipToBound, HorizontalAlignment, VerticalAlignment, Width, Height, MinWidth, MaxWidth, MinHeight, MaxHeight, Background)

Run                (Background, Foreground, TextDecorations, FontSize, FontWeight, FontFamily, FontStyle)
Span               (Background, Foreground, TextDecorations, FontSize, FontWeight, FontFamily, FontStyle)
  Bold             (Background, Foreground, TextDecorations, FontSize, FontWeight, FontFamily, FontStyle)
  Italic           (Background, Foreground, TextDecorations, FontSize, FontWeight, FontFamily, FontStyle)
  Underline        (Background, Foreground, TextDecorations, FontSize, FontWeight, FontFamily, FontStyle)
  UIContainer      (Background, Foreground, TextDecorations, FontSize, FontWeight, FontFamily, FontStyle)

 

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Added full support for Grid Panel:

 

 

HTML is good for Web, XAML for desktop applications.

 

btw, You can download Expresion Blend http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/download.aspx?key=blend2previewand

 

it is visual designer for XAML.

 

Thanks.

Will you implement events and some control types (edit, buttons...) as well ? How far will you go in XAML support ?

 

Here update of MarkupPad + new Samples.

 

 

Added WrapPanel and LinearGradientBrush tags,

Unicode text support even for ANSI applications (try run Welocome.xaml sample in win98)

Added Events - see DynamicMarkup.xaml sample

 

Please check new FinanceSample.xaml, HelpPageSample.xaml, StartPageSample.xaml and give your feedbacks.

 

 

Markup already added for Button, RadioButton, CheckBoxes, List and tree. Here screenshot of 12.0 release.

 

I can't help showing a sample WPF application: (paste Oleg's XAML code in Expression Blend, then click on Build)

 

 

 

1) yeap, all objects will support Click, MouseEnter, MouseLeave events. plus we plan to add buttons and scrolling for first release.

 

a) ok :)

 

b) yes, we thought to try directx or GDI++ but afraid it can decrease perfomance. :-(

 

 

Hi,

 

1. for binding will be used only C++ way:

 

SetDelegate(L"SetText1", CreateMarkupClassDelegate(this, &CMarkupPadView::OnSetText1));

 

...

void CMarkupPadView::OnSetText1(CXTPMarkupObject* pSender, CXTPMarkupMouseEventArgs* /*pArgs*/)
{
 ((CXTPMarkupTextBlock*)pSender)->SetText(L"New Text");
}

 

2. Yeap, already added xtpToolTipMarkup for tooltips. HTML will be used for compatibility.

Thanks good suggestion.

 

Edit: Added :)

There will be Button tag :-)

And png support and simple API to draw text in some rect.

Yes, Report will support Markup too.

 

I think that many of us are re-engineering code due to Vs2008 porting and if new version will be made available in april we have to skip this version.

 

Davide

 

Custom drawn CWnd:

CXTPMarkupMagic()->DrawText(x, y, "<b>Voilà!</b>");

 

Svetonio wrote Caesar's biography.. is very interesting and it's available also in english other than latin.

 

Maybe version 12.0 is our Easter egg.... but I hope not to find unusefull things like usually.

 

 

Can we go live with this beta version ?

Can we have a rough estimation for a release version ? (I hate when people ask me this kind of questions )

 

Beta for v12 is a 30-day eval. Does that mean that RTM will be available within one month :p ?

Hi,

 

You have nothing to worry :)

 

Can anyone from Codejock please answer this ?