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• Complex vector drawing with XAML

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Jul 22 2004, 03:18 AM

  Filed under: Visual Composition, XAML

  I've been testing a program that converts Adobe Illustrator SVG to XAML and I really wanted to give it a work out, so I decided to draw a card. Cards are symbolic and familiar and commonly have ornate designs so I thought it would be a perfect test. My
  

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• Signed up for Edward Tufte's one day workshop

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Jul 19 2004, 03:01 PM

  Filed under: Visual Composition, Grey Matters

  I've seen the big three books (haven't read them yet). I've heard about how great of a seminar it is (more on Sells' post in a second). So I've signed up for the one day seminar in Indianapolis this August. And the great thing is that as a part of the
  

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• How to hold a property's state after you animate it

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Feb 16 2004, 06:08 PM

  Filed under: Visual Composition

  This is just a quick tip on something I found not so obvious when working with animations. When you want to animate a property and keep the property set to the post animated value, you need to set the Fill property, which is of the TimeFill Enumeration
  

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• How to change the ImageSource for an ImageBrush in Code

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Jan 28 2004, 06:18 AM

  Filed under: Visual Composition

  I haven't found any examples showing how to change the ImageSource of an ImageBrush dynamically with code, so I thought I'd post what I have found to work. This works as of version 4051 and is not guaranteed to work in future releases. Notice that the
  

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• How do I change the z-order of a control?

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Jan 26 2004, 03:48 AM

  Filed under: Visual Composition

  How do I change the z-order of a control? I have seen this question asked a few times now about a control's z-order in Longhorn. Here's a compiled answer given on the WinFX newsgroups: “In the current bits the z-index within a canvas is determined
  

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• Taper Transformations in Avalon?

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Jan 21 2004, 02:17 AM

  Filed under: Visual Composition

  Well without much luck on the WinFX newsgroups, I thought I'd ask here: Is it possible to perform a linear taper transformation with an Avalon Matrix Transform? (see http://www-scf.usc.edu/~akotaobi/gptut13.html for taper transformation) In a transformation
  

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• What I see XAML used for, right now

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Dec 10 2003, 03:44 PM

  Filed under: Visual Composition

  Don Box asks "what do people expect to do with XAML besides stitch together documents?". So I thought I'd answer with what I see XAML for right now: This example might seem odd. I see XAML as replacing HTML. Of course not across the web (yet), but locally
  

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• Want to learn the basics of Visual Composition?

  Posted by akinney to Adam Kinney on Longhorn on Dec 06 2003, 01:53 PM

  Filed under: Visual Composition

  If you want to learn how Avalon Composes the Visuals that you see, a great presentation has just recently been made available on the streaming PDC2003 site . The presentation is entitled Avalon Graphics and Media (Part 2): Using Graphics, Animation and
  

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