Why are java applets outdated and why is JavaFX better?
I've tried asking this question all around but all I received was that "Just because" and this, frankly, shows that no one is willing to find out WHY. I want a clear answer on this.
Thank you!
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Is there documentation or a reference for the MVVM Light framework that let me know what is it capable of? After a lot of googling I've found very few things.
The primary documentation source is MVVM Light's website. Additional, documentation in form of problem solutions can be found right here on Stack Overflow. Also looking at the source code might help.
Personally, I think that both Laurent's presentation at MIX'10 and Josh Smith's article are best to start.
However, there is no explicit documentation for two reasons:
It is a free tool and writing extended documentation is a time-consuming task.
Nobody has volunteered to do so.
There is some documentation in the source code that could be extracted by using SandCastle, but I believe that the classes are reasonably self-documenting. Furthermore, in all the time I used MVVM Light I did not have the need for additional documentation, other than the documentation provided by the two sites above and the problem solutions here at Stack Overflow.
To answer your question, no there is no official documentation for the mvvm light toolkit, but I will give you the links I used myself and they were more than enough for me.
Those two conferences from laurent demonstrate the main uses of the toolkit along with general mvvm presentation. I found them really interesting and would recommend watching them if you are looking for what this toolkit is capable of.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX10/EX14 and
http://channel9.msdn.com/events/MIX/MIX11/OPN03
Also:
http://www.galasoft.ch/mvvm/
http://mvvmlight.codeplex.com/documentation
I know the question is old, but I just stumbled over the same issue. The API docs for all platforms and as HTML and CHM are located here: http://www.mvvmlight.net/help/
Please give me peace of advice. I would like to create some kind of audio-video player with some original functionality. But the problem is I'm not sure which multimedia framework to use. I tried to use Phonon but it has some bugs and for some reason it doesn't support many file formats (maybe I just don't know how to use it properly). So I'm thinking maybe some other mediaframework would be better. Maybe I'm wrong. I can use only LGPL license.
Thanks in advance
Check out Google for "qt vlc". That might give you a starting point.
Like the above user said, vlc is a good option.
Another good option would be GStreamer. Although it isn't qt-specific (it's rather Gnome-y actually), it's a pretty decent multimedia framework, and its documentation is (in my humble opinion) superior to vlc's.
Check them out at: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
i am new to QT, i don't have any knowledge about it.
from scratch i need to learn, if you people have some tutorials or some technical blogs please
feel free to share with me..
i have seen some stuffs in troltech, tell me any thing else apart from it.
Thanks
Trolltech documentation is great.
I can also suggest having a look at the independant tutorial.
There are also some great books about Qt. My favourite is C++ Gui programming with Qt.
Check out also these websites : Qt Forum and Qt Center.
This book is nice to start with Qt (Assuming you know c++)
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Qt-Art-Building-Applications/dp/1593271476/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1301423092&sr=8-9
You could also look at these
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Prentice-Source-Software-Development/dp/0132354160/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1301423092&sr=8-2
http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Qt-Programming-Creating-Development/dp/0321635906/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301423092&sr=8-1
I started looking at Silverlight.FX by Nikhil Kothari to replace Prism/Unity with our Silverlight 3 project.
So far I like the code layout and structure. It looks well thought out.
But I can't get a lot of the samples working due to a System.Reflection.AmbiguousMatchException. Anyone else seeing this? Should I not be using this framework with Silverlight 3?
I'm using the framework with Silverlight 3 without issue. Referencing the pre-built dlls works for my project but I haven't tried compiling the source myself. Have you tried using the dlls?
After some heavy debugging this error is coming because some of the class names that Nikhil used I believe are now in Silverlight 3 beta 1. In the TaskList example the ListView's DataTemplate has a HoverEffect
<fxeffects:ColorFill FillColor="#406795D1" Duration="0:0:0.25"/>
This is the one causing all the problems I saw. Removing this took away the AmbiguousMatchException.
Well, that is avoiding the problem, not solving it. It looks like the problem is much deeper, and anything that uses classes that derive from the Effect base class is broken. That makes the use of Silverlight FX pretty boring.
I have tried to use the lib in the past, and had issues with it. While Nikhil Kothari is amazing in the things he has worked on, and his technical abilities, I find that he is not so responsive to solving issues (BTW, someone already posted this problem on his blog, without his response). I do not want this to sound like a knock on Nikhil, it is just something you need to consider when using open source for real-world projects.
I sure hope someone can figure out what the deal is with those classes, I have spent many hours debugging, without solving the issue.
I tried the Amazon Store sample and the TaskList sample using the latest version of the library (3.1 built against SL3), and samples seem to work fine, including the ColorFill effect.
I did rename the Effect class to AnimationEffect which you'd need to avoid the ambiguous API compile error you'd see if you tried to recompile the sources... but precompiled binaries would have been fine. Not sure I see why you'd get a runtime reflection issue however.
Sorry, I know it can be frustrating to not see a response/fix immediately, but theres just too many things going on esp. before a release. My hope is having the source around at least enables you to debug into/break into so at least one is not completely blocked. Yes, I realize its suboptimal, but at the same time it is the reality, as Noam pointed out... :-(
Warning: Java newbie.
Been looking at XUI for Java. Its looks quite interesting. Sort of liek a WPF way of designing interfaces. But googling around I don't see much other than articles saying it had been released. So is it used much or a bit niche?
Are there other similar frameworks for Java? Was looking at JavaFX but seems to be a general feeling that it has been slow development wise. Are there other frameworks that work in simialr ways? I get the impression Swing/SWT seem to more like WinForms. I'm looking to do something a bit more WPF like. As I said, Java newbie, so I might have this all confused. Seem to be so many UI frameworks its a bit overwhelming working out what to use for a new project.
If you can't use JavaFx, Take a look http://www.swixml.org.
JavaFx is a nice framework, it is pretty easy to learn and use. There are also some nice tutorials, doco, API's available, its still only in Preview SDK at the moment, but the next reelase is expected out relativly soon.
I would recommend giving it a try
official javaFx site
suns JavaFX overview
openjfx