Νοέμβριος 2012 - Δημοσιεύσεις

PivotViewer for a rich search experience
28 Νοεμβρίου 12 06:55 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

For ClipFlair, I’m looking into implementing advanced search using Silverlight PivotViewer   A really nice example of PivotViewer search is at: http://www.appletoncompassion.org/VirtualExhibitViewer This may take long time to load, since its loading 10000 children art DeepZoom image tiles You can use the mousewheel to zoom in there or the zoom slider at top-right (can also [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Filters, UI, Posts, Search, Visualization, HTML5, Silverlight, ClipFlair, Pivot

HowTo: Make Project Linker extension’s VSIX install at Visual Studio 2012
27 Νοεμβρίου 12 10:24 πμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

Project Linker is a Visual Studio Extension that “helps to automatically create and maintain links from a source project to a target project to share code that is common to Silverlight and WPF”. In ClipFlair, where I have shared code between a Silverlight and a WPF project (I guess same would be for XNA projects [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Posts, WPF, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Programming, Compiler, Sharing, ClipFlair, Extensions, HowTo, Links, Projects, VSIX

HowTo: Bind cell to row data in DataGrid DataTemplate for MVVM control
25 Νοεμβρίου 12 11:40 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

When using MVVM design style for a Silverlight or WPF control, it is common to use the control’s DataContext to keep the associated ViewModel instance, so that in the XAML file for the control one can use simple binding statements from the UI to the view model (and back if TwoWay binding mode is specified) [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Posts, ClipFlair, HowTo, MVVM, Binding, RelativeSource, DataTemplate, DataGrid

HowTo: Check your web browser and plugins for needed updates
25 Νοεμβρίου 12 10:49 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

Qualys BrowserCheck will perform a security analysis of your browser and its plugins to identify any security issues. You can install it at https://browsercheck.qualys.com/   Another useful quick online tool (needs no installation) for checking that you do have the latest in web browser technology is Browse Happy, at http://www.BrowseHappy.com Tagged: Browser, HowTo, HTML5, Plugins, [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Posts, HTML5, Web, Browser, HowTo, Plugins, Qualys, Scan, Updates

HowTo: Remove Skype from Windows taskbar, keep as Taskbar tray icon
25 Νοεμβρίου 12 10:42 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

An annoying feature of Skype of recent Skype versions is that by default it shows an icon on the Windows taskbar apart from the one at the taskbar tray while you’re signed in. This also means it shows in the ALT+TAB key sequence when switching between open windows, which you might not always want to [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: UI, Windows, Posts, Usability, Tray, Taskbar, Icons, HowTo, Communications, Settings, Skype

HowTo: Use DotNetZip (Ionic.Zip) library in Silverlight
25 Νοεμβρίου 12 10:10 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

If you want to use the latest DotNetZip library (version 1.9.1.8) with Silverlight, you should get a patched version from http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/workitem/14049, instead of the official download for Silverlight. It seems the Silverlight build in 1.9.1.8 official download doesn’t work correctly, since it tries to get IBM437 Encoding (as the original ZIP spec required) from Silverlight, [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Posts, Silverlight, ClipFlair, HowTo, Compression, ZIP, DotNetZip, Unicode, Encoding, IBM437

HowTo: Write directly into a ZIP stream using DotNetZip
23 Νοεμβρίου 12 12:51 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

At ClipFlair’s Playground Silverlight app I’m using DotNetZip library (Ionic.Zip namespace) for writing saved component state to a .ZIP file. In fact the Activity container there can create one .ZIP for each state that contains one .ZIP per-component it hosts (it can even host multiple instances of its own Activity componnt type to have nested [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Posts, Silverlight, ClipFlair, HowTo, Compression, Streams, ZIP, DotNetZip

HowTo: Clear contents of Silverlight’s RichTextBox control
23 Νοεμβρίου 12 12:12 πμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

Was just debugging an issue with loading of saved state at ClipFlair’s Text component, when I realized that Silverlight’s (and WPF’s) RichTextBox control doesn’t accept an empty string at its Xaml proprerty to clear its contents as one would expect. Instead clearing the contents of the RichTextBox requires a call to Blocks.Clear(). In ClipFlair’s case, [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Posts, XAML, ClipFlair, HowTo, Gotcha, RichTextBox

HowTo: Tell AddThis to not append tracking suffix on addressbar
20 Νοεμβρίου 12 12:24 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

ClipFlair’s project description website is based on WordPress (a quite extensible blogging platform based on PHP). The other day we had an issue with the AddThis Plugin for WordPress, which was adding tracking suffices (in the form #.UAxxxxx) to the end of our URLs on the browser address bar. Moreover this wasn’t occuring in Internet [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: WordPress, Posts, Sharing, Social, ClipFlair, HowTo, URL, Tracking, AddThis, Plugins

Opensource movies from Blender project
19 Νοεμβρίου 12 07:55 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

Opensource movies made with Blender (http://www.blender.org) http://orange.blender.org/download http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/ http://www.sintel.org/download http://mango.blender.org/download/ At the download page for some of them you can also find subtitle files. Also at list of featured Blender movies (http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/movies/) I see the movie Project London which says there it’s an opensource project, but can’t find the movie download (maybe not available yet, [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Video, Posts, OpenSource, ClipFlair, Subtitling, 3D, Movies, Blender

HowTo: Multi-row captions and wrapping at Silverlight Media Framework
19 Νοεμβρίου 12 06:27 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια   

One of the main goals of the ClipFlair project is to explore the use of Video Captioning (together with Revoicing) for Foreign Language Learning (FLL). There both are important enhancements compared to the simpler two-line subtitling that was put in use in its ancestor project LeViS. Captioning means that multi-row text is needed while text [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Video, Text, Posts, ClipFlair, HowTo, Captioning, SMF, MMPPF, FLL