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How to create an hand writing to text control (ink recognizer)

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:01:00 +0200

When building a (multi)touch application you may need one nice feature : translate hand-written text to real words. This open a whole new world full of possibilities like starting some actions when keywords are recognized or simply allow the users to write some text for later use.

In this post we'll see all the step to create an hand writing to text control and how to tune it.

Specifications The HandWritingToText controls translate the text written with it's hand by the user into "computer text". The final purpose is to triggers some actions when a specific keyword is recognized and it'll so be able to recognize only one word at a time and not a whole text. The recognized text will be published via an event and... Read How to create an hand writing to text control (ink recognizer)

How to create your own control library (how-to + tips)

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:27:00 +0200

Reusability and factorizing are maybe the most commons things you want and use when you are developing applications. In WPF it often means creating controls library (i don’t mean UserControl) that will be easy to use in multiple applications. In this post we'll see all the step to create a control library useable in differents projects. The... Read How to create your own control library (how-to + tips)

How to create an animated expander

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:02:00 +0200

The expander control can be used in a lot of situations but the one proposed by default is quite "rigid". In this post we will discover how to animate it quite simply just via XAML ! The WPF engine lets us redefine the template of the controls and we'll just do that. The goal aimed What we aim is to get the same functionnality as the... Read How to create an animated expander

Execute a command on a specified control when clicking on a button

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:07:00 +0200

Today another example of the powerful ramora pattern : execute a RoutedCommand on an Control when you click on a button outside of the aimed control scope. When is it useful ? : for example when you use the infragistics grid (xamdatagrid) and you want to execute the command which remove the selected row from a button outside of the grid. You... Read Execute a command on a specified control when clicking on a button

Binding to the selected items of a ListBox (or an another items controls)

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:03:00 +0200

A problem you often meet when using MVVM is to get the selected items of an items control, especially Listbox. You can easily bind the selected item or the current items but when multi selection comes in the way, it becomes harder because the SelectedItems (with an 's' property is not available to binding). In this article we will discover an... Read Binding to the selected items of a ListBox (or an another items controls)

You could use the JavaFX Media Component.... Yes but where is it ?

JonathanANTOINE@falsemail.com — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:03:00 +0100

Have you been trying all the wonderful demo on on the JavaFX web site ? Yes ? Me too ! You can try the "Simple Video Player" for example : It's great but when I tried to reproduce the video player i meet a little problem. It tells "You could use the JavaFX Media Component, a prefabricated video player in the com.sun.fxmediacomponent... Read You could use the JavaFX Media Component.... Yes but where is it ?