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Arturo Toledo
I am looking for a tool that would allow me to dinamically draw graphics,
text, and even animation in a visual interface and then bring the generated
code or dlls´s (or files of any type) into my project as a control. Then
in VB I could add all the required code for this previously designed
control.
What I want is to avoid having to code graphics, that´s so slow and
unnatural... GDI+ has the power to do complex things like animation,
irregular buttons, alpha, gradient fills, pens etc etc... How can I ask a
graphic designer to develop all this widgets for me and then incorporate
them as a control? Graphic designers use Illustrator o Corel Draw for vector
drawings... how can I convert any of those formats into GDI+ code?... Say
my graphic designer develops a Frog shapped button... I want this button to
have all kinds of behaviors when pressed, rolled over etc etc... my graphic
designer will give me some nice EPS, WMF, Illustrator or Corel Vector
files... how can I bring this drawings into VB so I can code this control?
I know this is easily solved If go to Director or Flash (Macromedia) but I
wanna start doing this kinda interactive, animated stuff using winforms in
VB and VS NET. This is all due to the future longhorn release where avalon
will boost animation and graphics for windows development. I read in the
longhorn web page that the best way to get ready for the up comming
longhorn.avalon paradigm is by getting into managed code (no problem about
that) and second, get into Windows Forms.
I have gone into Windows Forms tutorials and found out how to create
controls but a definitive issue is bringing existent graphics (vectors)
without having to code them from scratch. Visual graphic designing is just
the most natural way to draw and "coding" a frog to draw it in a windows is
just unpractical.
Thank you all!
text, and even animation in a visual interface and then bring the generated
code or dlls´s (or files of any type) into my project as a control. Then
in VB I could add all the required code for this previously designed
control.
What I want is to avoid having to code graphics, that´s so slow and
unnatural... GDI+ has the power to do complex things like animation,
irregular buttons, alpha, gradient fills, pens etc etc... How can I ask a
graphic designer to develop all this widgets for me and then incorporate
them as a control? Graphic designers use Illustrator o Corel Draw for vector
drawings... how can I convert any of those formats into GDI+ code?... Say
my graphic designer develops a Frog shapped button... I want this button to
have all kinds of behaviors when pressed, rolled over etc etc... my graphic
designer will give me some nice EPS, WMF, Illustrator or Corel Vector
files... how can I bring this drawings into VB so I can code this control?
I know this is easily solved If go to Director or Flash (Macromedia) but I
wanna start doing this kinda interactive, animated stuff using winforms in
VB and VS NET. This is all due to the future longhorn release where avalon
will boost animation and graphics for windows development. I read in the
longhorn web page that the best way to get ready for the up comming
longhorn.avalon paradigm is by getting into managed code (no problem about
that) and second, get into Windows Forms.
I have gone into Windows Forms tutorials and found out how to create
controls but a definitive issue is bringing existent graphics (vectors)
without having to code them from scratch. Visual graphic designing is just
the most natural way to draw and "coding" a frog to draw it in a windows is
just unpractical.
Thank you all!