This illustrate the 4 main components inside BSA. You obviously have the UI part that visualize things on the screen. This is the main and largest part, but you also have Repository, Code generator and Debugger integration that needs to be in place. One of the reason’s I wanted to try WPF is the Repository/UI…
These two examples show one of the edit controls I am considering. The challenge with a property editor is that it is an array of labels and values not well suited to edit text needed for descriptions. And just giving it more height as shown above don’t really help. So what I consider is an…
I have added the 6 most common object that I will need as well as got a start on the control itself. So far it has been very straight forward. I discovered that you cannot use inheritance with XAML, so these are identical, stand alone XAML objects for now – QML could use inheritance, but…
The QML version of BSA is almost finished on Forms design, but I froze further development until I have tested WPF. I get things working in QML, and I am happy with what I see and experience on the screen. But, I am not happy with how much work it is to get simple things…
To get a feeling of the challenges with WPF I want to share the work to create a functional Property Editor in WPF. A Property Editor is a complex component, so it’s worth examining the challenges – that said – I am only exploring one path here – Both QML and WPF have multiple alternatives…
Having a good Property Editor is important for BSA. In QML I had no choise but to start making my own, but I have ended up doing the same on every platform I tried. In WPF I could get a free one or buy one, but do I want to? My objects will have sub-tables…
One of the hardest things you do in Windows development is to change the Title bar and integrate that better in your application. What you basically need to do is to switch off the Windows Title bar and create your own. I have done this in Forms and Qt/QML, but WPF stunned me with how…
This is the WPF version of BSA after a few hours of work. It’s not much to look at, but I will focus on BSA itself and not the dark theme/cool look this time. Firstly I need to learn WPF so I can generate code for it anyway – but, I also expect to find…
Most of my focus is on SW for the time being, and it is sadly less interesting to write about yet. My BSA project is ambiguous specially since I keep switching development platform. Back in the early days I did vector graphics on DOS. The challenge then was that you needed to even develop raster…
This simple drawing illustrate how I can create a gauge with several separate layers. In this case I draw a background and a needle on top of that. The final gauge is illustrated at top. This is exacly how I plan to embed a gauge editor in BSA – by using a table with x…