Actipro Avalonia Controls v26.2.0 is now available, introducing two new Fundamentals controls that bring motion to changing values and important content. AnimatedTextPresenter makes updates easier to follow, while BorderBeam draws attention to cards, inputs, and panels with animated color and light.

The release also improves Docking/MDI accessibility, adds more control over which Actipro theme styles are loaded, and updates native control themes for Avalonia v12.1.3.

See the related announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.

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Here’s a look at some of the new features.

Fundamentals

AnimatedTextPresenter

A changing dashboard value can be easy to miss when it simply switches from one number to another. AnimatedTextPresenter gives single-line text updates a smooth rolling or fading transition, making it a natural fit for metrics, counters, and status text.

Numeric values can roll like an odometer, with increasing and decreasing values moving in their respective directions. You can choose whether characters, words, or the whole line transition together, and optionally use temporary colors to emphasize numeric changes.

BorderBeam

BorderBeam surrounds content with a colorful animated border and soft inner illumination. Use it to highlight a status card, important input, or other surface while keeping its content interactive.

Choose a traveling beam or a pulsing effect, then adjust the colors, motion, and glow to suit your design. Its default palette adapts to light and dark themes, and the effect can be activated when a particular state needs attention.

More in This Release

Badge can now animate changes to string content when animation is enabled.

New ThemeStyleIncludes options let applications selectively load styles for individual Actipro products, and ModernTheme starts faster when native control themes are disabled.

The Shared Library also adds CanvasControl, a primitive for custom rendering and coordinated animation.

Explore both new Fundamentals controls in the Sample Browser to see how they can make changing information and important states clearer in your Avalonia apps.

A new Avalonia Controls release is now available, containing many small feature enhancements and quality of life improvements.

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A new Avalonia Controls release is now available. This new version makes improvements across the entire product line. One particularly nice new feature is the ability to now use SVG images with our ImageProvider infrastructure and DynamicImage control.

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Here’s a look at some of the new features.

SVG Vector Image Adaptation Support

SVG images are not natively supported in Avalonia but can be used in Avalonia via a third-party "Svg.Controls.Skia.Avalonia" NuGet package. Since SVG images are external to Avalonia itself, the default implementation of our ImageProvider does not support their adaptation.

For this version, we have enhanced our ImageProvider API to support extensibility for unknown image types and created an open source implementation in our sample project's "Shared Library / Dynamic Image" sample that works with SVG images.  It can easily be copied to your own apps, allowing you to use SVG images in Actipro controls and themes with full adaptation support for things like adapting for dark themes, appearing in grayscale when in a disabled control, and much more.

This version makes many small feature enhancements and quality of life improvements in the WPF Controls.

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A new Avalonia Controls release is now available that provides for complete control over the color palette used by the Actipro theme generator.

See the related announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.

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Here’s a look at some of the new features.

Themes

Color Palette Customization

The factory that creates a color palette used by the Actipro theme generator can now be customized and assigned. A default factory implementation is included that allows for easy adjustment of the color ramps generated by the color palette. You can easily adjust all palette colors and tint a theme to any color you prefer. This feature goes a long way towards creating a unique appearance for your applications.

Color Palette Utility

The Color Palette utility, part of our samples app, visually displays the entire color palette for the current theme. It now has a drop-down for selecting between several neutral midtone colors. Neutrals are important because they make up 80-90% of a theme and effectively tint a theme. The tinting effect is more apparent in dark theme variants. Another new drop-down lets you select the hue for accent colors, such as those used for selected item backgrounds.

Docking / MDI

Semi-Transparent Dragged Windows

A new option allows floating windows to appear semi-transparent while dragged. This makes it easier to see what drop targets are behind the dragged window.