Silvermoon

New Post: having to hard reset

heliosdev — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:13:26 GMT

Hi,

silvermoon 'links' to libGLES_cm.dll which is an OpenGLES 1.x implementation. The version that comes with silvermoon is a software implementation and should only be used in the emulator and not on the device. Devices with OpenGLES 2.0 support (like TG01 or HD2) don't have this dll (it's named libGLESv1.dll). Instead of using the software implementation the silvermoon library has to be recompiled to use the right dlls. (yes, with this dll the cpu is doing all rendering and not the gpu!)

Someone with VS2008 could give it a try!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=644710

Created Issue: Wordwrap in grid doesn't work correctly [4133]

el_rob — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:12:24 GMT

Hi Tom

When using wordwrap on a Label in a grid and the row extends over more than one column (e.g. colspan = 2), the line breaks after the length of the first column.

Hope you can fix this!

Cheers, Rob

Reviewed: Silvermoon 0.9 Beta 2 (Mrz 10, 2010)

el_rob — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:07:31 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - Great set of controls!!! Thanks a lot for your hard work, Tom!!!

New Post: having to hard reset

el_rob — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:27:41 GMT

Hello

I'm having the same problem on a HTC HD2.

My app runs fine the first 6 times, but on the 7th start, it crashes without giving me an error (can I enable error messages somewhere?). I have copied "libGLES_CM.dll" to my application directory, but the problem remains.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Rob

New Post: VisualStudio Designer support

RolandE — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:04:47 GMT

Why isn't there any VisualStudio Designer Support?

It qould make life a lot easier.

New Post: simple ListView example

heliosdev — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:33:01 GMT

Hi schaze,

yes, added

Size = new Size(0, 64);
titleLabel.Margin = new Margin(16); // 0 is the default margin

in the FileItem constructor and it works now!

Thanks,
heliosdev

New Post: Some basic functions missing

el_rob — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:03:46 GMT

Hello

I had the same issue. Ended up with overriding the OnLayout method and it it works for me now. However I would prefer the possibility to just set the HighlightedItemColor in my code.

In general, there are many predifined colors, button styles, etc. in Silvermoon, which can only be changed by overriding OnLayout. I hope the next version of Silvermoon will have more possibilities to "style" certain controls by easier means!

Cheers!

Rob

New Post: Label with dynamic Size?

michiski — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:19:34 GMT

I mean that the Scalefactor of the label are set auto. so the Size of letters change if i set a other margin on example changing the grid.

New Post: Some basic functions missing

schaze — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:48:04 GMT

Hi all,

I just really noticed that this is "just" a Beta.

Is there any easy way to change the Highlighted color of a ListViewItem or TreeViewItem without having to override the OnLayout method in a derived class? it uses SysColors.HighlightedItemColor to create the background visual, but the SysColors are all readonly so one cannot change that.

Am I missing something, or is this really just not implemented?

Would love to hear some of your opinions.

/schaze

New Post: simple ListView example

schaze — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:43:45 GMT

Hi heliosdev,

did you try setting the Size of the FileItem in the constructor?

Size=new Size(Width,64);

Help me once, however I am not sure if this will do the trick here. you may also try to set the Margin of the titleLabel to 0 (new Margin(0)) so that the label gets automatically adjusted to the ListViewItem.

/schaze

New Post: Label with dynamic Size?

schaze — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:39:10 GMT

Hi,

what do you mean by automatically fit to the Margin?

/schaze

New Post: Lifesigns

schaze — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:08:55 GMT

Hi Thomas,

are you still working on Silvermoon? I hope you did not give up on it as it remains my only hope at the moment. I had to abandon my plan to use Fluid for my project as I found myself more on bugfixing Fluid or shipping around strange behaviors than actually doing any work on the app itself :)

Do you have any news about Beta 3? I am just moving over to Silvermoon now and I am very impressed by how much this Framework has matured compared to Fluid.
I however just came over the following in the VirtualItemsCollection Class:

public void Insert(int index, ItemBase item)
{
   throw new NotImplementedException();
}

Well this for sure let me stop and think. Did you simply forget to implement it or is there any special reason why a Insert should not be working (a delete does so insert should be no different). I could implement it myself but I really do not want to start messing around in your framework like I had for Fluid as this will not end good I think. :)

Thanks a lot again for the great framework! If you could just give it a tiny little push it would be just perfect and we could sack all iPhone apps with delight.

/schaze

        public void Insert(int index, ItemBase item)
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException();
        }

New Post: Listview virtual mode

el_rob — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:47:59 GMT

Never mind. I found the problem... I was creating multiple fonts using "Font" instead of "FontSprite", which caused the error.

New Post: Label with dynamic Size?

michiski — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:04:21 GMT

Hello,

I want to make Labels that automaticly fit to the Margin.

Is there any possibility?

New Post: Listview virtual mode

el_rob — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:04:39 GMT

Hello all

I'm trying to add listview items using the virtual mode. Unlike in the Silvermoon demo, I would like to add these Items already in the "root" of the listview. I'm using the "AttachItem" event like this:

void OnAttachItem(object sender, TreeViewItemEventArgs e)
        {
            int index = e.Index;

            // stationList is a list containing StationData entries
            StationData data = stationList[index];
            
            e.Item = new StationItem(data.stationName);
        }

This is giving me an "out of memory" exception when scrolling down a certain number of entries, as there are around 500 listitems. I've tried to implement the "DetachItem" event, but this is not triggering. Is there anyone who can help me with a simple example of the virtual mode and >100 listitems?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks, Rob

New Post: How to use silvermoon for development

heliosdev — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:13:48 GMT

Create a new C# Devcie Application. (Smart Device - Windows Mobile 6 Professional)
Add references to silvermoon dlls (SilverMoon.dll and OpenGL.dll)
In the Form1 (renamed to MainForm) initialize Silvermoon:

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Windows.Forms;

using Silvermoon.Animations;
using Silvermoon.Controls;
using Silvermoon.OpenGL;

namespace Test
{
    public partial class MainForm : Form
    {
        public Silvermoon.Core.Screen _screen;

        public MainForm()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
        {
            if (_screen != null)
            {
                _screen.Invalidate();
                _screen.Render();
            }
        }

        protected override void OnPaintBackground(PaintEventArgs e)
        {
        }

        private void MainForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            _screen = Silvermoon.Core.Screen.Initialize(this);
            _screen.Renderer.BackgroundColor = Color.White;
            _screen.Renderer.Perspective = true;

            TestForm testForm = new TestForm();
            testForm.Color = Color.White;
            testForm.TransitionDuration = 1500;
            testForm.Show(TransitionMode.FadeIn);
        }
    }
}

And the TestForm will be your entry form for your app: (no drag&drop support, create a new class and inherit from Window or Dialog)

using System;
using System.Drawing;

using Silvermoon.Controls;

namespace Test
{
    public class TestForm : Window
    {
        public TestForm()
            : base()
        {
            Initialize();
        }

        private void Initialize()
        {
            ChromeButton cmdTest = new ChromeButton();
            cmdTest.Text = "test";
            cmdTest.Color = Color.DarkCyan;
            cmdTest.Size = new Size(160, 64);
            cmdTest.Margin = new Margin(null, null, 240 + 32, 100);
            cmdTest.Click += new EventHandler(cmdTest_Click);
            Controls.Add(cmdTest);
        }
        void cmdTest_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Screen.Close();
        }
    }
}
To run this app (and any other opengles apps) on the emulator you have to copy the libgles_cm.dll (211KB, in silvermoon demo folder) to the emulator's /windows folder.

(save the emulator state so you don't have to this everytime again) This is a software renderer and shouldn't be copied to your device!
It's slow but enough for development. (animations/transitons have to be checked on the device)

New Post: simple ListView example

heliosdev — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:41:51 GMT

Hi,

first of all thanks for these nice controls! I'm building an application right now but have problems creating a ListView!
What I have so far is

        private void CreateListView()
        {
            ListView listView = new ListView();
            listView.Margin = new Margin(16);
            listView.ItemHeight = 64;
            listView.ItemClicked += new EventHandler<ItemEventArgs>(listView_ItemClicked);
            listView.BeginInit();
            foreach (string fileName in GetFileNames())
            {
                FileItem item = new FileItem(fileName);
                listView.Items.Add(item);
            }
            listView.EndInit();
            Controls.Add(listView);
        }

        void listView_ItemClicked(object sender, ItemEventArgs e)
        {
        }

Where GetFileNames() returns a List<string> and FileItem is

    public class FileItem : ListViewItem, ISelectable
    {
        public FileItem(string title)
            : base()
        {
            Label titleLabel = new Label();
            titleLabel.Text = title;
            Controls.Add(titleLabel);
        }
    }

But the list isn't visible. What am I missing?

Thanks,

heliosdev

New Post: Problem with egl.GetDisplay()

KSD — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:02:26 GMT

Hello everyone,

I download the source code and try to compile it, but I got the error at compilation time.

The error are from these lines

display = egl.GetDisplay(new EGLNativeDisplayType(true));

display = egl.GetDisplay(new EGLNativeDisplayType(window));

Please give me a suggestion to solve this problem.

Thank you in advance.

PS: Is it possible to bring and compile this code in WM6 Standard (Smartphone)

Thank you

New Post: What apps have people developed with Silvermoon?

andrewje — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:44:35 GMT

I was just wondering what apps people have developed with Silvermoon?

New Post: How about XAML?

xarmoso — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:41:02 GMT

How about include the possibility to create UI's using a small subset of XAML?

I'm talking about a single namespace, no binding... Just UI attributes and event handling.