Custom File Dialogs
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Hey all, I'm just trying to make some nice WPF file dialogs for saving and opening files ... is the best way of getting back the file name and which button was clicked best done by implementing some dependency properties? I keep getting compile errors like 'incorrect return type' due to the void setting on the button click event handlers and so forth. I really don't want to use the OS native open / save dialog boxes ... they look so horrid!! :) Cheers,
Jammer Going where everyone here has gone before! :) My Blog
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Hey all, I'm just trying to make some nice WPF file dialogs for saving and opening files ... is the best way of getting back the file name and which button was clicked best done by implementing some dependency properties? I keep getting compile errors like 'incorrect return type' due to the void setting on the button click event handlers and so forth. I really don't want to use the OS native open / save dialog boxes ... they look so horrid!! :) Cheers,
Jammer Going where everyone here has gone before! :) My Blog
Jammer wrote:
I really don't want to use the OS native open / save dialog boxes ... they look so horrid!!
You may need to rethink this because users are already used to those dialogs and it's what you "should" use for this reason. Not sure why you are having issues, they work great for us.
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Jammer wrote:
I really don't want to use the OS native open / save dialog boxes ... they look so horrid!!
You may need to rethink this because users are already used to those dialogs and it's what you "should" use for this reason. Not sure why you are having issues, they work great for us.
Cheers, Karl» CodeProject 2008 MVP My Blog | Mole's Home Page | How To Create Screen Capture Videos For Your ArticlesJust a grain of sand on the worlds beaches.
Oh for sure ... the standard ones work ... i'm just getting right into the design side of things and really wanting to maintain that sort of feel over the app ... have got my dialog working now too ... no need for dependency properties ... I was barking (mad) up the wrong tree with that one.
Jammer Going where everyone here has gone before! :) My Blog
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Oh for sure ... the standard ones work ... i'm just getting right into the design side of things and really wanting to maintain that sort of feel over the app ... have got my dialog working now too ... no need for dependency properties ... I was barking (mad) up the wrong tree with that one.
Jammer Going where everyone here has gone before! :) My Blog
If you are using the standard dialogs, the user has certain control over them through the use of themes, so if you implement your own versions, they need to be consistent with user expectations.
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If you are using the standard dialogs, the user has certain control over them through the use of themes, so if you implement your own versions, they need to be consistent with user expectations.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Hi Pete, Not sure what you mean here. Do you mean the look and feel expectations or functionality or both together? Cheers,
Jammer Going where everyone here has gone before! :) My Blog
It's a bit of both. The themes issue relates to what they expect to see - the expectations relates to the interaction they expect from the dialogs.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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It's a bit of both. The themes issue relates to what they expect to see - the expectations relates to the interaction they expect from the dialogs.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Sure that makes complete sense. At the moment I have a nice little dialog that just does what I need it too at the moment ... nothing fancy but its got all the same theme as my app. It needs expanding on before the final release for sure. I'm also not even allowing browsing to random folders at the moment its just locked into offering file names at the moment. That needs attention for the final release.
Jammer Going where everyone here has gone before! :) My Blog
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Sure that makes complete sense. At the moment I have a nice little dialog that just does what I need it too at the moment ... nothing fancy but its got all the same theme as my app. It needs expanding on before the final release for sure. I'm also not even allowing browsing to random folders at the moment its just locked into offering file names at the moment. That needs attention for the final release.
Jammer Going where everyone here has gone before! :) My Blog
It's fair enough to redo or change an implementation if what you are after is sufficiently different to the behaviour of a standard dialog.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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It's fair enough to redo or change an implementation if what you are after is sufficiently different to the behaviour of a standard dialog.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.