We should now find the image files along with the XML under My “manifest” Documents\MetroCAD. Creating the Basic Browser Now that we have the data we want to browse stored in a place accessible to a WinRT, that’s we can go ahead and create our basic browser. Visual Studio 2012 provides some excellent foundational project templates for WinRT apps. The one that best fits our purposes is the Grid View template. not going to go through the We’re detailed process of adding all the functionality we need to this project, but we will be looking at areas of code that are implement various interesting capabilities. If you really want to see all the differences in detail, you might create a basic Grid View app and then perform a with the files in the finished project. “diff” The first is to adjust the data-source for our items to reflect the data we want to “big ticket” item store for each DWG. Then necessary to go ahead and adjust the XAML to bind to this it’s clearly data in various locations. Now going to take a look at various interesting features of Windows Store apps, to see we’re how they can be implemented in our MRU browser app. Semantic Zoom Semantic zoom is an interesting capability for any app display lots of data. It lets the user that’s on the data, showing it at a lower level of detail. For instance, rather than having the “zoom out” items listed with larger icons and their title (which is already a level of detail less than the full item view) we can implement a view that just shows smaller thumbnails for all the DWGs accessed on a particular day. Pinch-zoom A view with the associated view. “zoomed in” “zoomed out” Some work is needed from the developer to support this view: they basically need to add a SemanticZoom element with ZoomedInView and ZoomedOutView sub-elements for the respective views. The user can choose to display this view by simply pinch-zooming the display (or pressing the Ctrl key and using the mouse-wheel if relying on mouse and keyboard).
We should now find the image files along with the XML “manifest” under My Documents\MetroCAD. Creating the Basic Browser Now that we have the data we want to browse stored in a place that’s accessible to a WinRT, we can go ahead and create our basic browser. Visual Studio 2012 provides some excellent foundational project templates for WinRT apps. The one that best fits our purposes is the Grid View template. We’re not going to go through the detailed process of adding all the functionality we need to this project, but we will be looking at areas of code that are implement various interesting capabilities. If you really want to see all the differences in detail, you might create a basic Grid View app and then perform a “diff” with the files in the finished project. The first “big ticket” item is to adjust the data-source for our items to reflect the data we want to store for each DWG. Then it’s clearly necessary to go ahead and adjust the XAML to bind to this data in various locations. Now we’re going to take a look at various interesting features of Windows Store apps, to see how they can be implemented in our MRU browser app. Semantic Zoom Semantic zoom is an interesting capability for any app that’s display lots of data. It lets the user “zoom out” on the data, showing it at a lower level of detail. For instance, rather than having the items listed with larger icons and their title (which is already a level of detail less than the full item view) we can implement a view that just shows smaller thumbnails for all the DWGs accessed on a particular day. Pinch-zoom A “zoomed in” view with the associated “zoomed out” view. Some work is needed from the developer to support this view: they basically need to add a SemanticZoom element with ZoomedInView and ZoomedOutView sub-elements for the respective views. The user can choose to display this view by simply pinch-zooming the display (or pressing the Ctrl key and using the mouse-wheel if relying on mouse and keyboard).
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