From time to time, it’s a good idea to go back and re-examine old code. With time comes greater knowledge and new tricks; and in the case of two of my earlier custom Windows Forms controls, this was certainly true. You may remember my ComboBox control with grouping support, as well as my ComboBox with… Continue reading
Describes how to use the buffered paint API (in uxtheme.dll, via PInvoke) to paint custom Windows Forms controls with fade animations. Provides a managed class to simplify the process of implementing fade animations in controls. Continue reading
This is just a quick post to pass the time between the instalments of my ongoing series on Media Center development. The objective of this article is to show you how to build a simple progress bar control using MCML. I wrote this article in response to the statistic than several people landed on my… Continue reading
In the last post, I introduced a command button for use in Media Center add-ons. In doing so, I demonstrated the idea of input focus, Command objects and rules to dictate behaviour and data-binding. All of these concepts are transferrable to this instalment’s topic: A List Control (with Selected Item Tracking) A simple way of… Continue reading
Continuing the series of articles on Media Center development, this post introduces a command button with the standard Media Center look-and-feel: A Command Button Last time, we looked at a UI element for a page title. That was a good example of a non-interactive element. To get any real functionality in an add-on, we will… Continue reading