WPF Pain In The Anal Pore
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Am I missing something? Why not just put a label control on the form? Use a canvas if you want absolute positioning. I'm really enjoying working with WPF. It's as slow as hell even on good hardware but it's a real improvement for UI coding.
--Matt
nistrum404 wrote:
it's a real improvement for UI coding
Not when it takes you twice as long to do something that was brain-dead simple in WinForms. IMHO, WPF is a huge step backwards in productivity, and while I have no evidence of this yet, it's probably going to be a freakin' slug on our customers' machines. How is THAT better?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
nistrum404 wrote:
it's a real improvement for UI coding
Not when it takes you twice as long to do something that was brain-dead simple in WinForms. IMHO, WPF is a huge step backwards in productivity, and while I have no evidence of this yet, it's probably going to be a freakin' slug on our customers' machines. How is THAT better?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001I'm finding it just as easy/productive as Winforms and much better when it comes to doing eye candy. Might be because I've got a history with web development and Flash. I think the big problem is it's all pretty vast and new. I'd imagine there's a steeper learning curve transitioning from forms development. Performance really is an issue though, especially when compared to the blazing animation speeds of Flash. I've got a layout routine that manipulates about 40 controls, animates about 20 of them, repositions some, deletes a few and adds a few more and it's taking a good tenth of a second to work. Anybody know if there's a way to suppress layout updates for a section of code? Every dependency property I change seems to cause a superfluous layout update immediately which is where I think my precious milliseconds are going.
--Matt
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gajatko wrote:
keep trying, looser)
I'm looser than you ?
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It isn't my opinion. You missed quotation marks I guess. I apologise if you took that personally.
Greetings - Gajatko Portable.NET is part of DotGNU, a project to build a complete Free Software replacement for .NET - a system that truly belongs to the developers.
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It isn't my opinion. You missed quotation marks I guess. I apologise if you took that personally.
Greetings - Gajatko Portable.NET is part of DotGNU, a project to build a complete Free Software replacement for .NET - a system that truly belongs to the developers.
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And you missed a typo even after having it rubbed in your face. :doh:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
Ah I see now. An extra 'o' in the 'looser' word. Well, I checked it in an on-line dictionary which I use all the time and it has both 'loser' and 'looser' (ling.pl). However there are several dictionaries and there is no 'looser' in the official one -- it exists in the Open Eng-Pl Dictionary only.
Greetings - Gajatko Portable.NET is part of DotGNU, a project to build a complete Free Software replacement for .NET - a system that truly belongs to the developers.
