I just tried James’ WPF example in 2010 64bit on XP64 and it works for me. The visual style is different I believe due to being XP but I think you just need to have .NET 3.5 installed for it to work.
Hi chaps,
I think i have a sort of work in progress for automated control layout, thanks to bobo’s vertex renderer in the MXS Help
Very cool. I like it a lot. Great work Pete!
Thanks matt, james
I do the same as you james, I tend to code exclusively in VB within the visual studio environment and build the custom events so that the integration within max is as painless as possible. In fact the entire rig studio integration is about 6 lines of maxscript, which is a macro building the maxform and plonking the usercontrol on to it.
I register the automate mxs function straight from the assembly, so its all self contained. For the rig automation, I just wrote a new class that populated a ‘rigcontrolfrommax’ object – this has three properties – location, wire color and node name, and the entire array is passed back to the assembly as an array of these new classes. The rigstudio design surface can then call an existing method to automate the build.
I’m off on holiday tomorrow but when I get back I have planned a new article talking about my appraoch to custom control design using my new hand animation system as an example.
I have been learning expression blend and really enjoying it – the data binding really is as good as you say James. I am looking forward to combining the two approaches, cool design functionality with solid managed code behind.
Thanks again for all your comments, its always great to get feedback from all you pros out there, since most of you helped me get there in the first place.
I hope this is legible, I’m typing it on my blackberry in a hotel by heathrow airport!