http://www.cocomment.com/blog/189413 Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-23T11:30:53.223+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2598590&comment_id=136970782 Jérémy That's a very cool idea ! 2009-11-04T10:28:04.274+01:00 2009-11-04T10:28:04.274+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2598590&comment_id=136970658 Jérémy That's a very cool idea ! 2009-11-04T10:24:27.385+01:00 2009-11-04T10:24:27.385+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2587625&comment_id=134876545 rudi Raul, No problem... 2009-10-21T07:41:30.390+02:00 2009-10-21T07:41:30.390+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2587625&comment_id=134313053 Raul Mainardi Neto Rudi, Tnx for the quick reply Rudi, I have written some aditional content for your code and would like to have your permission to post it. Would you mind? All best 2009-10-16T17:56:22.815+02:00 2009-10-16T17:56:22.815+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2587625&comment_id=134257925 rudi Tnx for the comment Raul! Your idea seems solid and I agree that the only problem is that you now have to somehow ensure that its a icon! There is 2 other ways to solve this problem: The prevered way imo is to refactor it out into a seperate control! Or you can use your method but make the value converter more "clever"... ie. if its a button and the content is a framework element, convert it to a bitmap first!!! This will give you the same feature (the color hot-track) even if the content is some crazy vector art! I just wanted to keep the article as simple as possible! Another interesting thing to play with is do the actual mouse tracking and change the linear gradient brush center? just a thought... Tnx again for the kind comments... Rudi 2009-10-16T07:08:02.878+02:00 2009-10-16T07:08:02.878+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2587625&comment_id=134244501 Raul Mainardi Neto Amazing code Rudi, as usual actually, but what bugs me is that on your BindingExpression you bind to the FrameworkElement by name (by using ElementName), which is usually something that I try to avoid, but since the Binding class is dead clever we can use the following to avoid the explicit element name to the binding: Background="{Binding Path=Content.Source, Converter={StaticResource iconToAvgColorBrushConverter}, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Mode=Default}" of course this only works if you ensure that your first level FrameworkElement nested in the button logical tree has a Source property, but for sure looks pretty cool. Cheers mate All best Raul 2009-10-16T04:57:37.166+02:00 2009-10-16T04:57:37.166+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2587625&comment_id=134029774 Ismail Lunat Nice ... Thanks 2009-10-14T10:48:01.463+02:00 2009-10-14T10:48:01.463+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2587204&comment_id=134025170 rudi Eduardo - It's Office 2010... but other MS products also does this... check out messenger? pieterg - Dankie pieter! 2009-10-14T09:30:08.510+02:00 2009-10-14T09:30:08.510+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2587204&comment_id=134021703 pieterg Baie awesome Rudi! Dit lyk fantasties! 2009-10-14T08:32:12.933+02:00 2009-10-14T08:32:12.933+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2587204&comment_id=133949003 Eduardo Is this Outlook 2007 or 2010? 2009-10-13T18:36:46.140+02:00 2009-10-13T18:36:46.140+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2587204&comment_id=133936778 Eduardo How do you enable this overlay in Outlook? 2009-10-13T16:03:12.019+02:00 2009-10-13T16:03:12.019+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2585026&comment_id=133256953 Mike Strobel You should check out the SyntaxEditor WPF control from Actipro. It's still in beta, but it's really slick (and fast!). 2009-10-08T17:49:22.205+02:00 2009-10-08T17:49:22.205+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2581444&comment_id=133235940 rudi Thank you Craig! 2009-10-08T13:55:42.744+02:00 2009-10-08T13:55:42.744+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2585026&comment_id=133233881 rudi Thank you Denis! 2009-10-08T13:46:23.823+02:00 2009-10-08T13:46:23.823+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2585026&comment_id=133233877 Denis Vuyka Thanks for another brilliant post Rudi! 2009-10-08T13:40:10.544+02:00 2009-10-08T13:40:10.544+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2581444&comment_id=133014216 Craig Nicholson Congrats on the new adventure... 2009-10-07T06:43:47.105+02:00 2009-10-07T06:43:47.105+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2581444&comment_id=131646846 rudi Dankie Pieter, Ek kan nie wag nie! 2009-09-30T14:15:59.340+02:00 2009-09-30T14:15:59.340+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2581444&comment_id=131645228 pieterg baie baie geluk Rudi, dit is 'n baie cool company om voor te werk :) 2009-09-30T13:52:52.429+02:00 2009-09-30T13:52:52.429+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2563360&comment_id=124094868 Rob Burke This is all kinds of awesome. Do you have any 'getting started' tips on some good sensor hardware that Windows can detect? Can you order a good set of sensors to plug into your machine to play with this in more depth? 2009-08-21T18:02:45.979+02:00 2009-08-21T18:02:45.979+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2563360&comment_id=124094867 Rob Burke This is all kinds of awesome. Do you have any 'getting started' tips on some good sensor hardware that Windows can detect? Can you order a good set of sensors to plug into your machine to play with this in more depth? 2009-08-21T18:02:44.989+02:00 2009-08-21T18:02:44.989+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2563360&comment_id=124097351 Rob Burke This is all kinds of awesome. Do you have any 'getting started' tips on some good sensor hardware that Windows can detect? Can you order a good set of sensors to plug into your machine to play with this in more depth? 2009-08-21T18:02:42.084+02:00 2009-08-21T18:02:42.084+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2563360&comment_id=124095613 Rob Burke This is all kinds of awesome. Do you have any 'getting started' tips on some good sensor hardware that Windows can detect? Can you order a good set of sensors to plug into your machine to play with this in more depth? 2009-08-21T18:02:33.867+02:00 2009-08-21T18:02:33.867+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2563360&comment_id=124094864 Rob Burke This is all kinds of awesome. Do you have any 'getting started' tips on some good sensor hardware that Windows picks up? Can you order a good set of sensors to plug into your machine to play with this in more depth? 2009-08-21T18:02:04.005+02:00 2009-08-21T18:02:04.005+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2563360&comment_id=124088601 pieterg absolutely awesome! 2009-08-21T07:13:59.943+02:00 2009-08-21T07:13:59.943+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2563360&comment_id=124039817 Laurent Nice idea. I imagine we could use that kind of code to control lighting in a house too, and modulate the colors depending on the level of sunlight in the room, to provide different feelings during the day. Love it. Laurent 2009-08-21T00:45:22.001+02:00 2009-08-21T00:45:22.001+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2563360&comment_id=123987151 Colin E. This sounds seriously cool - although you really need to shoot a video showing this in action. Colin E. 2009-08-20T16:53:44.223+02:00 2009-08-20T16:53:44.223+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?context=explore&object=sites&mode=detail&id=189413&conv=2561579&comment_id=123398452 Flo Windows Key + X, turn on Presentation mode... 2009-08-17T13:41:10.880+02:00 2009-08-17T13:41:10.880+02:00