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Mar 13, 2009 12:18 pm

Hey guys, I’ve been digging WPF stuff and I came up with two simple examples…for me it’s being fun to find out the new possibilities of this. Cheers.

dnWindow=dotnetobject "System.Windows.Window"
dnWindow.Title="WPF Test"
dnWindow.Height=200
dnWindow.Width=200

dnColor=dotnetobject "System.Windows.Media.SolidColorBrush"
dnColor.Color=(dotnetclass "System.Windows.Media.Colors").AliceBlue

dnCanvas=dotnetobject "System.Windows.Controls.Canvas"
dnCanvas.Background=dnColor

dnButton=dotnetobject "System.Windows.Controls.Button"
dnButton.Height=23
dnButton.Width=100
dnButton.Content="WPF Button Test"

dnCanvas.SetTop dnButton 10
dnCanvas.SetLeft dnButton 10

dnWindow.Content=dnCanvas
dnCanvas.Children.Add(dnButton)
dnWindow.Show()

XamlReader=dotnetclass "System.Windows.Markup.XamlReader"
XamlString="<Window 
    xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation\"
    xmlns:x=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml\"
    Title=\"Window1\" Height=\"300\" Width=\"300\">
    <Grid>
        <Button Height=\"22\" HorizontalAlignment=\"Left\" Margin=\"12,12,0,0\" Name=\"Button1\" VerticalAlignment=\"Top\" Width=\"87\">Button</Button>
        <ComboBox Margin=\"0,12,12,0\" Name=\"ComboBox1\" Height=\"22\" VerticalAlignment=\"Top\" HorizontalAlignment=\"Right\" Width=\"122\" />
        <ListBox Margin=\"12,58,12,12\" Name=\"ListBox1\" />
    </Grid>
</Window>"
XamlWindow=XamlReader.Parse  XamlString
XamlWindow.Show()

I find the second example to have great habilities in terms of UI design for maxscripts

22 Replies

Gravey

Mar 13, 2009 12:18 pm

cant get the 2nd example to work. I get this error:
– Unknown property: “Parse” in dotNetClass:System.Windows.Markup.XamlReader
I can see the potential though. Dotnet windows / controls from xml!

Kameleon

Mar 13, 2009 12:18 pm

What Max version are you using? I’m using Max 2009 and they both work fine.

It’s not quite XML, it’s a little different, have a look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_Language

Gravey

Mar 13, 2009 12:18 pm

i’m using 2009 as well. am i supposed to load a some dotnet assembly first?

ZeBoxx2

Mar 13, 2009 12:18 pm

this error is much more fun

– Runtime error: dotNet runtime exception: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

( fresh max (2009×32) start )

Kameleon

Mar 13, 2009 12:18 pm

Sorry guys, my bad. You have to install .NET 3.5 SP1 I guess that’s it… and I’m using Max 2009 64 bit btw.

ZeBoxx2: you had that error in both examples?

Cheers

Edit: About the Parse Method, this method is only available as .NET 3.5 SP1

ZeBoxx2

Mar 13, 2009 12:18 pm

yep, both examples – quite possibly I don’t have 3.5 (SP1 or otherwise) installed as of yet… will try later.

Shouldn’t we be building user interfaces in Adobe Flash, though?

Kameleon

Mar 13, 2009 12:18 pm

Well, I ran into this because I was researching on how to create a windows form designer of my own but since I’m into it I guess I’ll try to do it WPF compatible, since the XAML parsing into maxscript seems like a good idea and it resolves the problem of having to convert VB code or VC to maxscript to actually create the controls. This way, after parsing the XAML code it returns the main Window, from where we can access all controls.

steev

Mar 13, 2009 12:18 pm

got the same errors as ZeBoxx2 with a fresh install of .NET 3.5 SP1 (2009×32 as well)

i’m guessing it’s an issue w/ 32 bit instead of 64

ZeBoxx2

Mar 13, 2009 12:18 pm

or maybe it’s an XP vs Vista thing (apparently WPF is a separate download for XP SP2) – no idea

I did / do have .NET 3.5 (SP1) installed… even tried re-installing, but the installer spends 5 minutes ‘preparing’, then pops up a dialog with a ton of knobs and buttons, then when going to install it just claims that Setup Failed

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