Object Plugin : XamlListBox

[reteset]

XamlListBox object plugin is a listbox that allows to use most of XAML markup


Features

• Supports Hyperlink,Button,CheckBox and RadioButton as interactive objects
• Supports lines,shapes,gradients and more..
• Supports most of image formats (jpg,png,gif,bmp)

Note : This plugin requires a minimum level of XAML markup knowledge

More Info And Download : Click Here

[milano88]

Thank you for presentation Reteset

[Shrek]

This is looking pretty cool, is it made with Ams Plugin Maker?

[reteset]

Hi
No , it is not made with APM

[naxo]

A question for reteset, how can it manage the visible text data, when showing window, if I create a table to loop the data and parse it by using a string variable to a xaml variable?

I mean this

table={}
table[1]="data"
...

create a loop for table, the string variable lets call "datatable" and insert into:

for n, datatable in pairs (table) do

  <TextBlock Foreground="Black" FontWeight="Bold" Text=datatable/>

end 

If I do this the result is blank and not data is displayed
How can you parse that variable if were a table with data within?

[reteset]

Hi naxo

this is a basic string concatenation issue
for example you can do it like below

for n, datatable in pairs (table) do

  local str = "<TextBlock Foreground=\"Black\" FontWeight=\"Bold\" Text=\""..datatable.."\"/>"
  XamlListBox.AddItem("Plugin1", str, "", "");

end

but defining a xaml template with place-holders and replacing them with string.format() function would be much better and clean solution

i attached a sample project that loads XamlListBox from variable strings

[Shrek]

Hi
No , it is not made with APM

I thought that when I seen the small plugin size supporting multiple image types, adding something like that to AMP would be great!

[naxo]

Hi naxo

this is a basic string concatenation issue
for example you can do it like below

for n, datatable in pairs (table) do

  local str = "<TextBlock Foreground=\"Black\" FontWeight=\"Bold\" Text=\""..datatable.."\"/>"
  XamlListBox.AddItem("Plugin1", str, "", "");

end

but defining a xaml template with place-holders and replacing them with string.format() function would be much better and clean solution

i attached a sample project that loads XamlListBox from variable strings

I was reviewing the lua help for that function, tell me if what I say its correct: That function you did include many strings as its needed to format them by separating with comma its right?

[reteset]

I thought that when I seen the small plugin size supporting multiple image types, adding something like that to AMP would be great!

APM already supports multiple image formats by using Graphics module

JPG,PNG,GIF,BMP,TIFF

[Shrek]

APM already supports multiple image formats by using Graphics module

JPG,PNG,GIF,BMP,TIFF

I need to pay more attention lol, I figured it was just the standard formats Windows supports with PNG etc on Windows 8.

[reteset]

I was reviewing the lua help for that function, tell me if what I say its correct: That function you did include many strings as its needed to format them by separating with comma its right?

yes , you can assign a variable to a place holder by separating them with comma
second argument of string.format() function is a variable-argument
so number of arguments is variable but not unlimited

[naxo]

Thanks I think both methods are reliable for doing population table thank you for the plugin

[kjh]

Thank you Reteset, nice addition to the toolbox

Any chance that you could add a possibility to use images converted to Base64 strings - i know its not a build-in feature but it would exchange the possibilities to use images stored in a database (mysql)

Have you planned to release other axml-based objects, like combobox, datagrid etc.?

For those who might have to learn some basic Axml (WPF) - like myself - i have found a useful tutorial here : http://www.wpf-tutorial.com/

Best regards
Kjeld

[naxo]

Thank you Reteset, nice addition to the toolbox

Any chance that you could add a possibility to use images converted to Base64 strings - i know its not a build-in feature but it would exchange the possibilities to use images stored in a database (mysql)

Have you planned to release other axml-based objects, like combobox, datagrid etc.?

For those who might have to learn some basic Axml (WPF) - like myself - i have found a useful tutorial here : http://www.wpf-tutorial.com/

Best regards
Kjeld

thanks for that info!

[reteset]

Hi Kjeld

First of all this plugin uses codejock's XAML (they call it Markup) parser just like AMS does (xButton)
and this plugin does not support full XAML as provided by Microsoft but supported XAML tags are commonly used ones
you can use codejock's Markup Pad application to test and preview or debug your XAML markup

Please click here to goto download page and find Markup Pad Sample paragraph then you will see download links there

Note : in order to download this file or others you should register an account (its free) then you can download

as for the base64 image support

XAML does not support base64 or binary images as embedded
but it has an image manager , it is just like an image list
if i can add a base64 or binary image to this image manager then yes it is possible

i will try it and write result here soon

currently there is no plan to make a plugin with XAML support , because it takes a lot of time to implement XAML stuff in a custom control

do you have a specific suggestion ?

Thanks