This version upgrades all the Actipro controls and themes to target the recently-released Avalonia 11.1 version.
For customers who wish to continue targeting their applications with Avalonia v11.0 for now, please use the Actipro Avalonia UI Controls 24.1 version, as that targets Avalonia v11.0.
See the related announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.
Bill Henning (Actipro)
A new Avalonia UI Controls release is now available that makes some minor updates to the 24.1 version of our controls, which targets Avalonia v11.0.
With today's release of Avalonia v11.1, a new 24.2 version will be published soon that targets Avalonia v11.1.
See the related announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.
This version adds several great new controls and makes many updates across the Avalonia UI control product line.
See the related announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.
Here’s a look at some of the new features.
Most applications contain a window or view where end users can configure settings. Actipro now provides several controls for displaying grouped and optionally expandable card-based editors for settings that are presented in a consistent, easy-to-use way.
Application settings have never looked so good!
The new card control presents visually grouped information for a single subject, using optional cover, thumbnail, header, and footer sections.
Cards can optionally be actionable as well.
The new segmented bar control allows a user to select a single item with support for fluent animations when changing selection.
It can arrange items horizontally or vertically.
The new info bar control displays essential information to a user without disrupting the user flow.
Messages can display with optional severity, action, and more.
The new circular progressbar control displays a ranged progress value using fluent animations. It is similar to a native linear progressbar, except that it renders the progress in a ring shape and shows the progress text within the ring.
An indeterminate state is supported for scenarios where no specific progress value can yet be determined.
The new scrollable overflow presenter control can be oriented horizontally or vertically and displays scroll buttons when its content overflows the available space.
Clicking a scroll button smoothly scrolls the content.
Toggle switches can now optionally arrange the knob/track on the right side of the control instead of the left, which is ideal when used in the new settings-related controls.
The minimum Avalonia UI dependency is updated from v11.0.5 to v11.0.7 and all native control themes should now be consistent with Avalonia UI’s theme updates through v11.0.10.
Bill Henning (Actipro)
A new Avalonia UI Controls release is now available the adds several great new controls.
See the related announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.
Avatar controls are used to represent people or objects. They can render a full-size image, a centered glyph, a person's initials, or text.
When text is provided, initials can automatically be derived. Large text-based content will scale down to try and fit within the circle as needed. A generic "empty" glyph will be displayed when no avatar content is provided.
An avatar is most distinctive when using image-based content, so text-based content can be harder to differentiate. While an avatar's foreground and background can be manually specified, there is built-in logic to automatically select color combinations based on the avatar's content and using either a solid or soft appearance.
Avatar derives from Button and supports the standard button command model and click events.
Use an AvatarGroup to render multiple Avatar controls. Avatars in a group can overlap with each other by a given size percentage, and you can expand the avatars on mouse hover. When the avatars don't fit in the available space, they can overflow to a popup.
Wrap the group in a chromeless button to make an actionable avatar group that executes a task when clicked.
Badges can add contextual information to target elements, or even used on their own. Badges can display small content like text, counts, icons, or can render as a dot.
When a badge adorns an element, it shows and hides using an animated "pop" effect. It can be easily aligned to any anchor position on the target element.
NumericBadge inherits Badge and supports binding to a numeric value, such as a count value. The badge automatically displays when the count increments to a positive number and hides when decrementing to zero.
The displayed numeric value has overflow support, meaning that a large value can be restricted to only show "99+" for example.
The RingSpinner control renders an animated ring where the two ring segment ends chase each other around the circle.
It is used when some form of processing is occurring to tell the end user that something is happening.
The RingSlice shape renders a portion (or the entire circle) of a ring shape. Its start/end angles, radius, thickness, and other stroke properties can be set.
Ring slice shapes can be combined in many interesting ways within UI, primarily used to create progress indicators.
Bill Henning (Actipro)
A new Avalonia UI Controls release is now available the adds an exciting new feature named user interface density. Best of all, this feature is part of Actipro Themes and completely free to use!
See the related announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.
A new theme definition option has been added to support arranging the ButtonSpinner and NumericUpDown buttons horizontally instead of vertically. A horizontal arrangement uses more space but is more touch-friendly. Our sample project also shows how this option can be updated for certain user interface densities only, such as Spacious.
Our previous v23.1.1 release added a new user interface density feature that allowed controls and views to dynamically adjust spacing based on a density setting. This feature was a real gamechanger and works very well, however it was discovered that the parsing of numeric values in our new XAML markup extensions wasn't always utilizing invariant culture. Therefore, on some systems with non-English cultures, numbers were parsed incorrectly and spacing was far too large. This issue has been corrected in this maintenance release.
Avalonia support native ahead-of-time compilation, which means an app is compiled to native code. Native AOT apps have faster startup time and smaller memory footprints. They also attempt to "trim" unused APIs to minimize the app's codebase.
For this maintenance release, we made a number of updates that help support trimming and native AOT.