Disabling Events in ShowUI
Because some things just work better in WPF. Let’s say you had a form that collected a bunch of user input, and then had a button that would fire off some work. We’ll assume that you wanted to prevent people from firing off the work again before they know the results of the first time, [...]
ShowUI: Handling Events and Producing Output
Once you get past the basics of WPF and ShowUI, learning to use nested panels or grids to achieve the layouts you want, and start getting a grip on what controls are available by default, the next step to building useful user interfaces is going to be handling user interactions. In programming, we call those [...]
ShowUI: the tutorial walkthrough
Ok, let’s be clear: you’ve seen this before, and this isn’t going to be the last you’ll see of it, because we’ve got much more in store in ShowUI, but for the first release of ShowUI, it’s obviously time to update this simple walkthrough of building simple user interfaces in PowerShell! An introduction to ShowUI [...]
PowerBoots (Next Generation UI) WPF for PowerShell slides
I gave a LiveMeeting presentation on PowerBoots last week, and these are the slides. I’m sorry to say that the recording did not work out, so you’ll have to wait for the next time I present it to see the demos. Luckily, the demo scripts I used are mostly the samples which are available in [...]
PowerBoots: Loading XAML Windows in PowerShell 1.0 or 2.0
Awhile back I wrote a series of posts about WPF From PowerShell From PowerShell” which were about how you could load XAML in previous PowerShell 2 CTPs to create WPF user interfaces … a few people have mentioned loading XAML in PowerBoots, and a couple of people have posted other samples showing XAML even since [...]
A quick progress update on PoshConsole
Click for a teaser screenshot This is actually a bit scary, because you can load sort-of … anything To prove it (you’re gonna love this … I should take a video, really, but it’s time for bed, so this will have to do): check this out Beat that! So yeah, I have this control written [...]
Lesson: Expectation Setting – Newton vs. Palm
Visionary insights come from thinking more about human needs than technological possibilities. Ben Shneiderman Leonardo’s Laptop: Human needs and the new computing technologies Shneiderman writes about the success of Palm handhelds: The surprise was that users were willing to learn a variant of the English alphabet called Grafitti so that they could enter data … [...]
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I’ve been crazy busy the last few weeks, but I’ve been really rather distracted from my main project and it’s past time I got back to it. To really feel like I’ve moved on, I need to write a bunch of articles here and publish a couple of cool apps and some source code so [...]