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 From:  THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)   21 Jun 2009 07:35 
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Working on a little personal project at the moment, and playing with WPF/XAML a bit more than I can at work. It's really rather good. I needed to create an animated timer, basically a circle with a line inside it that spins like a stopwatch hand. In any previous Windows GUI framework, that would have been a complete pain in the arse, involving GDI drawing and sin/cos tables. In XAML, it's half a dozen lines of declarative code, without any C# code-behind at all.

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   22 Jun 2009 09:44 
 To:  THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)      2 of 10 
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That's because Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer love you so much and they just want to see you happy.

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 From:  THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)   22 Jun 2009 10:27 
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)      3 of 10 
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That makes up for Steve Jobs hating me.

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 From:  andy   22 Jun 2009 12:15 
 To:  THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)      4 of 10 
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.....and the code is?
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 From:  Manthorp   22 Jun 2009 12:55 
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.....and the code is?


It translates as: Jesus is Audrey Tatou's great grandad.
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   22 Jun 2009 15:42 
 To:  THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)      6 of 10 
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He doesn't hate you, he just doesn't think you're funny. Besides, he has a lot going on at the moment.

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 From:  Manthorp   22 Jun 2009 19:06 
 To:  THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)      7 of 10 
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It was no reason to eat his liver though, with or without Fava Beans.
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951

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 From:  THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)   23 Jun 2009 06:49 
 To:  andy      8 of 10 
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The code to draw the Timer is
XAML code:
<Grid Width="16" Height="16" Name="Grid" Margin="2">
  <Ellipse Stroke="#FF000000" StrokeEndLineCap="Round" StrokeStartLineCap="Round" StrokeThickness="1.5" Fill="#44FFFFFF"/>
  <Path Stretch="Fill" Stroke="#FF000000" StrokeEndLineCap="Round" StrokeStartLineCap="Round" StrokeThickness="2" Margin="6,3,6,6" Data="M48,24 L48,19.25" Name="Path">
    <Path.RenderTransform>
      <RotateTransform x:Name="Rotator" Angle="0" CenterX="1" CenterY="5"/>
    </Path.RenderTransform>
  </Path>
</Grid>
 


and the code to animate it is

XAML code:
<Storyboard>
  <DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="Rotator"
     Storyboard.TargetProperty="(RotateTransform.Angle)"
     From="0" To="360" Duration="0:0:4" RepeatBehavior="Forever"/>
</Storyboard>
 


OK, so a dozen lines. It's still a hell of a lot better than GDI.

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 From:  Voltane   23 Jun 2009 16:22 
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It's still a hell of a lot better than GDI.


NOD Rules!!!!

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 From:  THERE IS NO GOD BUT (RENDLE)   24 Jun 2009 06:38 
 To:  Voltane      10 of 10 
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Was that a C&C joke in my ever-so-serious coding thread? :{

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