Creating a Custom Panel Written in C# - For Implementation in Ascent Capture 7.5
This document will walk you through creating a custom panel written in C#. The custom panel is designed to run in the Quality Control module and provides an easy way to unreject multiple Documents and Pages as viewed in the Batch Contents window. This panel uses a ToolStrip control containing three image and text buttons.
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Athos - The C# GUI Generator
This application comes to help software architects and developers during the long process between user’’s stories, designing the application’’s structure and actually coding it.
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Using DirectX in Windows Forms
Windows Forms is a Microsoft technology that provides a clean and easy framework for building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and is both extensible and componentized. However, it is sometimes desirable to have a rich 3D user interface to display 3D data or to allow the user to interact in 3D. DirectX, another Microsoft technology, is a graphics framework with support for 2D and 3D graphics, which supplies an abstraction layer between low-level system components (such as drivers) and high-level applications (such as a GUI or a game). This document will discuss the process of hosting DirectX inside of a Windows Forms application in order to provide seamless integration between the two frameworks for use in GUIs that may be graphics intensive.
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Graphical Interfaces for C#
A new environment called .NET was recently introduced to wide public. However, this environment does not contain libraries for advanced graphical output. Therefore it is necessary to make such libraries available to .NET. This paper describes our implementation of graphical library interfaces. The implementation allows cooperation of graphical interfaces with .NET. We have dealt with interfaces of libraries such as OpenGL, DirectX, and Visualization Toolkit (also known as VTK). A short description of libraries is included as well as a short introduction to .NET environment. We also present results, advantages, and disadvantages of our implementation. This paper contains neither comparison of the graphical libraries nor comparison of .NET environment and other environments.
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Programming .NET Windows Applications Drawing and GDI+
The designers of .NET, and especially of Visual Studio .NET, clearly had in mind a model in which you could write sophisticated Windows Applications using only the controls available in the Toolbox. This approach is very successful, and many Windows programmers will never need to go beyond the Toolbox and forms model for building powerful user interfaces. As discussed elsewhere in this book, the Toolbox includes controls for displaying data (labels, DataGrids, Calendars, listboxes, etc.) as well as for offering the user choices (radio buttons, checkboxes, listboxes, etc.) and for gathering data (text boxes, etc.) In addition, several controls and components manage date and time (Timer, etc.) or the form itself (splitter, etc.).
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