Re: Silverlight Vertigo.Slideshow problem - WPF Discussion Boards

5-Oct-09 10:50

You should easily be able to accomplish this via DataTriggers.

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Jon_Boy6-Oct-09 1:19

Jon_Boy

6-Oct-09 1:19

Roger that gold leader. Let me go looking into datatriggers.

Thanks!

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Silverlight Vertigo.Slideshow problem

Richard Hudson5-Oct-09 8:34

Richard Hudson

5-Oct-09 8:34

Hi to all:

Please could someone help me!
I am new to Silverlight but trying to get my head around the format and structure of it all.
I am experimenting with different ways of designing a web site and encountered the following problem.

What I am trying to do in a nutshell is to host a Silverlight control from a Silverlight application. To be more specific; from a *.Xaml file. My example is below:-

I am using a third party Silverlight control called Vertigo.Slideshow (I'm sure you will have heard of it).
From a website (Html coded page) I just do the following

<head>
    <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
    <title>Gallery</title>

    <script type="text/javascript" src="../Scripts/Release/Silverlight.js"></script>

    <script type="text/javascript" src="../Scripts/Release/SlideShow.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="content_container">

        <script type="text/javascript">
            new SlideShow.Control(new SlideShow.XmlConfigProvider());
        </script>

    </div>
</body>

I then just add a Data.Xml file (with refs to all images) and also a Configuration.Xml to my current folder. This all works perfectly fine.

However, I've created a new web site in Visual Studio 2008 using 'Silverlight Navigation Application'.
So all my web pages are in the *.Xaml format.
What I'm trying to do is add this Vertigo.Slideshow.Xap control to my web page (Xaml) but really, really struggling. I know I must be doing something fundamentally wrong but cannot seem to resolve it.

I would really appreciate any help whatsoever to anyone who can shed some light on this (or even a snippet of code which will do this).

I would be eternally grateful to whomever gives me a pointer.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Richard Confused | :confused:

Re: Silverlight Vertigo.Slideshow problem

Mark Salsbery6-Oct-09 8:21

Mark Salsbery

6-Oct-09 8:21

Richard Hudson wrote:
I am using a third party Silverlight control called Vertigo.Slideshow (I'm sure you will have heard of it)

hmm bold assumption. Some of us don't use third party controls... Wink | ;)

I would look first into the control documentation.

If it's a Silverlight control then there should be a way to package
the control's assemblies into your Silverlight app's XAP file and you should be
able to use the control in your app like any other control.

If it's just a plugin control for web pages then you may have some issues.
While it's relatively simple to dynamically download a XAP file and extract items from
it, you'd need to know the assemblies involved and the classes to use.

From a quick search on "Vertigo Slideshow", it looks like it's the latter - a plugin for
web pages, not a Silverlight control. The source code is available though...

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

Re: Silverlight Vertigo.Slideshow problem

Richard Hudson13-Oct-09 0:25

Richard Hudson

13-Oct-09 0:25

Thanks Mark for your time.
I've sort of found a solution.

Thanks again for your time.

Regards
Rich

Specify path to Icon file in XAML

Etienne_1235-Oct-09 7:24

5-Oct-09 7:24

Hi there

Can anyone perhaps tell me how to specify, in XAML, a path to an image that is not added as a resource, but instead in an "Icons" folder within the "Bin" folder?
For instance, I've got a button, and I want to display an icon on this button. This is easy when adding the icon files as resources (Right-click >> Add Existing Item) because I can then simply set the Source property to a specific icon file that I added, but I need to do this the other way because when creating a Setup project all files used by my application needs to be in the folder relative to where the EXE is, which is the Bin folder

Thanks in advance

Pete O'Hanlon5-Oct-09 10:49

5-Oct-09 10:49

You can find the StartupPath if you follow the directions in my post here[^]. You could then do something like the following:

private void AssignImage(string fileName)
{
  string path = Path.Combine(Utility.StartupPath, "Icons");
  string file = Path.Combine(path, fileName);
  myImage.BeginInit();
  myImage.Source = new BitmapImage(file);
  myImage.EndInit();
}

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Etienne_1236-Oct-09 3:42

6-Oct-09 3:42

Thanks, this might work. But I'd have to go and do this for each and every one of my icons that I use, which is quite a lot. Isn't there an easy way to just specify the icon path in the XAML? I tried using Pack URI's but I had no luck

Pete O'Hanlon6-Oct-09 4:41

6-Oct-09 4:41

There's no reason you couldn't convert this logic into an attached property and attach it that way.

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Etienne_1236-Oct-09 5:34

6-Oct-09 5:34

The main reason I want to do this is because I want to move my Icons folder to the Bin folder. All icons I use are stored in this folder. I want to move it to the Bin folder because this makes things easier when creating a setup project, and I don't know of any other way. So how would one normally go about creating a Setup project for an application that uses icons? Almost all apps use them, and don't tell me all developers have to follow this approach that you're telling me to take now?

Pete O'Hanlon6-Oct-09 11:11

6-Oct-09 11:11

Why aren't you applying them as resources then? These are embedded in the exe, so don't need to be added to your setup project. I don't see what benefit you've got keeping them external to the application.

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Etienne_1236-Oct-09 11:33

6-Oct-09 11:33

Well that's what I'm doing, but for some or other reason my app crashes when I install and run it. It runs fine when I take out all the icons, that's why I thought it might be the icons' path. Can it be something else then?

Pete O'Hanlon6-Oct-09 11:38

6-Oct-09 11:38

Without seeing what you're doing with the images, it's hard to say. I use inline images regularly with no problems - what format are they, and why not try creating an app with one of your images in? Install the app, and see if it crashes - it may be that there is a problem with just one of these images, and I'd isolate the problem first.

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Etienne_1239-Oct-09 22:44