Hi,
I have been playing about with the MarkupLabel and find it can be very useful to create my own controls or interfaces. However it is lacking in some key areas and can be quite annoying to find that xaml code that works correctly doesn't work in this MarkupLabel control.
I have created a Document style UserControl interface that displays as a page with a dropshadow (similar to MS Word), the following two methods work perfectly in XamlPad:
<Page xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation'
xmlns:sys='clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib'
xmlns:x='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml' >
<Grid Height='200' Margin='-2,-2,-6,-6' Width='500'>
<Rectangle Stroke='Black' Margin='6' RadiusX='0' RadiusY='0' />
<Rectangle Stroke='Black' Margin='5' RadiusX='1' RadiusY='1' Opacity='0.25'/>
<Rectangle Stroke='Black' Margin='4' RadiusX='2' RadiusY='2' Opacity='0.2'/>
<Rectangle Stroke='Black' Margin='3' RadiusX='3' RadiusY='3' Opacity='0.15'/>
<Rectangle Stroke='Black' Margin='2' RadiusX='4' RadiusY='4' Opacity='0.1'/>
<Rectangle Stroke='Black' Margin='1' RadiusX='5' RadiusY='5' Opacity='0.05'/>
</Grid>
</Page>
or
<Page xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation'
xmlns:sys='clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib'
xmlns:x='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml' >
<Border BorderBrush='#000000' BorderThickness='1' Margin='10'>
<Border.Effect>
<DropShadowEffect Color='Black' Direction='270' BlurRadius='20' ShadowDepth='2' />
</Border.Effect>
<Grid Background='White' />
</Border>
</Page>
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However because the CJ Markup doesn't support Border.Effect, DropShadowEffect and Opacity I have had to change this to:
<Grid Height='200' Width='1000'>
<Rectangle Fill='#FFFFFF' Stroke='Black' Margin='5' RadiusX='0' RadiusY='0'/>
<Rectangle Stroke='#AFAFAF' Margin='4' RadiusX='1' RadiusY='1'/>
<Rectangle Stroke='#BFBFBF' Margin='3' RadiusX='2' RadiusY='2'/>
<Rectangle Stroke='#CFCFCF' Margin='2' RadiusX='3' RadiusY='3'/>
<Rectangle Stroke='#DFDFDF' Margin='1' RadiusX='4' RadiusY='4'/>
<Rectangle Stroke='#EFEFEF' Margin='0' RadiusX='5' RadiusY='5'/>
</Grid>
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This gives the same kind of effect, but the Border.Effect, DropShadowEffect and Opacity properties would be better as this would add transparency to the dropshadow.
Will CJ be adding support for this in the future as well as many others?
Below is the VB6 UserControl code for creating the Document style interface, just add a MarkupLabel control to the UserControl and paste the following code:
Option Explicit
Private Sub CreateMarkupDocument()
Dim ctx As MarkupContext, doc As MarkupGrid, docShadow As MarkupRectangle
Dim i As Long, m As Long, r As Long, ShadowColor As OLE_COLOR
Set ctx = UserControl.MarkupLabel.MarkupContext
With ctx
Set doc = .CreateObject("Grid")
With doc
For i = 0 To 5
Select Case i
Case 0: m = 4: r = 10: ShadowColor = &H9F9F9F
Case 1: m = 3: r = 11: ShadowColor = &HAFAFAF
Case 2: m = 2: r = 12: ShadowColor = &HBFBFBF
Case 3: m = 1: r = 13: ShadowColor = &HC6C6C6
Case 4: m = 0: r = 14: ShadowColor = &HCFCFCF
Case 5: m = 5: r = 0: ShadowColor = &H0&
End Select
Set docShadow = ctx.CreateObject("Rectangle")
With docShadow
If i = 0 Then Set .Fill = ctx.CreateSolidBrush(&HFFFFFF)
Set .Margin = ctx.CreateThickness(m, m, m, m)
Set .Stroke = ctx.CreateSolidBrush(ShadowColor)
.RadiusX = r
.RadiusY = r
End With
doc.Children.Add docShadow
Next
End With
End With
Set UserControl.MarkupLabel.MarkupUIElement = doc
End Sub
Private Sub UserControl_Initialize()
Call CreateMarkupDocument
End Sub
Private Sub UserControl_Resize()
On Error Resume Next
UserControl.MarkupLabel.Move 0, 0, UserControl.ScaleWidth, UserControl.ScaleHeight
End Sub
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Don't forget to set "UserControl.ControlContainer = True", so you can drop controls on it. Heads up though, Labels don't display when dropped on it, to get round this place a picture box in first and set it to be as high and wide as the document display remove the border and set as white, then you can see the Labels correctly.
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Product: Xtreme SuitePro (ActiveX) v15.3.1
Platform: Windows 7 64-bit (SP1) Professional Edition
Languages: C#.Net using Visual Studio 2012 & Visual Basic 6.0 (SP6)
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