Bill Henning (Actipro)
Due to an issue we found with clicks on SyntaxEditor margins that was introduced in the last build, we just published a fix in new v2014.1 maintenance releases for our WPF, Silverlight, and WinRT/XAML controls.
Details on the updates can be found in this announcement post.
The 2014.1 versions of our WPF, Silverlight, and WinRT/XAML controls were released last week and all contain several handy components in them. One that I'd like to talk in more detail about today is the RingSlice control.
The RingSlice control renders a portion (or the entire circle) of a ring shape. Its start/end angles, radius, thickness, and other stroke properties can be set.
In the screenshots above, we see a RingSlice rendering a full ring and another showing how end caps can be customized.
In the screenshots above, we see how the same RingSlice control can have different stroke settings applied to it to provide dash effects.
Other very interesting composite controls can be created by using the RingSlice control together with other controls.
The screenshot above shows how four RingSlice controls are used to surround a TextBlock and make a segmented progress indicator. The fill of each RingSlice can be changed as progress occurs, so that the current step is reflected.
Finally, this screenshot shows the radial graph of a numeric value. Simply animate the end angle of the RingSlice to create a dynamic presentation of the data.
The RingSlice control is available in our WPF, Silverlight, and WinRT/XAML Shared Libraries and is licensed for use by any of our customers of those control platforms. Download v2014.1 and check it out!
WinForms Controls 2013.1 build 310 has been released and is now available for download.
This version features the updates we did to bring Metro Light themes to the controls as described in this post and this post. The new themes can make your app's Actipro controls render similar to the visual style found in Visual Studio 2013.
See the announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.
Bill Henning (Actipro)
The 2014.1 versions of our WPF, Silverlight, and WinRT/XAML controls have been released and are now available for download.
Major new features are described below. See the announcement posts for the detailed list of enhancements and updates, including many items not listed below:
Metro themes have been dramatically refined and updated in this version, mostly in the area of Docking/MDI. Updated UI includes subtle border lines, new auto-hide tab appearance, title bar gripper decorations, and more.
Metro themes will now not show images on tabs by default, and have changed auto-hide tabs to require a click (instead of hover) to open. These updates match Visual Studio 2013 behavior.
We've added new events for the auto-hide popup (flyout) that fire when it is opened or closed. The popup is also now displayed using a faster default animation speed.
When the DockSite.AutoHidePopupOpensOnMouseHover property is false, clicks on auto-hide tabs are required to toggle the auto-hide popup opened and closed.
New built-in property editors for FontFamily, FontStretch, FontStyle, and FontWeight type properties have been added.
New key tip specific theme resources have been added and key tips in Metro themes now render more like Office 2013.
CheckBox-based menu items now are capable of supporting tri-state display.
Delimiter auto-completion logic for insertion and subsequent scope tracking has been greatly improved. Delimiter indent provider can now optionally support square braces.
Added a new property that allows SyntaxEditor to measure itself based on text contents. This works great for smaller documents in both multi-line and single-line modes.
Updated single-line mode to support word wrap, which is very useful when combined with the new view line measuring option.
Bookmark indicators now support an IsEnabled state.
LipsumGenerator class added to support generation of "lorem ipsum" placeholder text.
Changed block indent mode to retain whitespace after the caret when Enter is pressed.
Numerous improvements to the VB language's handling of identifiers and variable declarations that don't include a type.
Added IntelliPrompt completion for keywords and symbols to the JavaScript language.
Added a new advanced JSON language that can be used to view/edit JSON files, along with a new related QuickStart.
Updated JavaScript language to support multi-line strings via backslash continuation.
Many improvements to Metro themes (mostly in the Docking/MDI area described above), and improved WindowChrome (and RibbonWindow) rendering when maximized.
Added the RadialSlider control, which is a circular slider that can be used to input any scalar value.
Added the RingSlice control, which renders a portion of a ring at designated angles and radius.
Added the CircularThumb control, which is a thumb gripper with a circular shape and arrow adornment.
Added three samples for new Shared Library controls.
Added the AppBarHint control, which is a visual hint to users that app bars exist on a page, and can be tapped to toggle them open.
Added a related QuickStart.
Added the ability to toggle description sidebar on some samples.
We've got some more new features coming to our WPF PropertyGrid control in the upcoming 2014.1 version.
In the new version, when an object with any sort of font-related property (like FontFamily, FontStretch, FontStyle, or FontWeight) is edited in PropertyGrid, it will automatically use new built-in editors designed specifically for those property types. The editors kick in based on the return type of the property. For instance, you could have a property defined as this and the FontFamily property editor will be used:
public FontFamily HeaderFontFamily { get; set; }Let's see the new features in action. Here are some screenshots:
The screenshot above shows the FontFamily drop-down.
The screenshot above shows the FontWeight drop-down.
These new features will be available in the 2014.1 version of PropertyGrid for WPF.