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Hi my dear guys. I want to increase the user experience in my VB.NET apps. Today i've created a mockup in Expression Blend to have an idea that i want to do.
I've uploaded a sample video, please check it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx0PhSxflQw
How can i do this? GDI+? DirectX? API? Component? :wave:
I've tried telerik for WinForms but i'm a bit complicated.:sick: any other way??
please help me, best regards.
This is possible with windows.forms without any drawing at all but the performance will be poor. GDI+ also wouldn't ensure a smooth movement, I would have suggested WPF if only I had some experience with it. DirectX is the next logical step.
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Originally Posted by cicatrix
Thanks, i'm a beginer in WPF. I've tried to do it in Expression Blend and edit before in VB2008 , but i'm not good in Expression Blend. I've put a grid in Expression Blend and few controls and i added the effect SlideIn and SlideOut.
Can i create an effect and add more controls after in VB 2008 IDE? or all need to be designed in Expression blend? If i make an effect called "SlideIn" in Ex.Blend, how can i call the effect with vb code? :D
VBDT's free Screen Shot (utility) behaves similar when hiding so maybe you can get something from that.
regards
toe
Hi, well i'd be tempted to do this with silverlight (or flash) either can be ran locally or remotely
Hi, my app have a 3D menu and i found few nice flash animations in Flashden, but uses 100% of CPU with WMMODE=Transparent. In wmode=Windows or Opaque uses 20-30% CPU. Because a high utilizacion of cpu with flash animations i'm learning WPF :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Megalith
i hate flash if im honest lol, i do however find it good for animated menus within html environments. I have a feeling you wish to have a 3d menu for any/all your vb.net projects. with that in mind then i guess direct x is the way to go. again cant comment on wpf (need to learn it myself really)
I've used GDI+ for quite a few little animations before, so this thread had me wondering: just what are the limits of GDI+? I thought I ought to be able to make an animation at least like the one in Nicole's video.
So I made a sliding animation of a 32-bit image (with transparency). The background is full screen (1680x1050 or whatever it is) and the sliding image is 3/4 full screen in the x and y directions. And it doesn't look too bad, both on my rather mediocre 2GB twin-core and on my feeble little Nano netbook.
If anyone's interested in seeing the result, I threw the project (excluding Bin and Obj) into a Zip: see attachment. It's fairly large because of the images in resources - especially the 32-bit PNG which gobbles space. And I had to shrink the images quite a lot to meet the forum's limit.
I think this represents just about the limit of what you can do with GDI+. There are several technical considerations, for example pre-sizing the images, painting them with DrawImageUnscaled and using PixelFormat=32bppPArgb (premultiplied). It also took quite a bit of tinkering with the timer interval and pixel distances to produce a smooth looking animation. I'm sure a technique such as WPF or Flash that takes better advantage of hardware acceleration is going have less limitations and on the whole better results.
If you feel like running it: enjoy!
regards, BB
thanks! works very nice!