WynApse

I got tired of my WPF/E Samples And Code page being simply a table of links, so I did this application:

I've been kicking around various ideas about WPF/E menus, but wanted to make this page be something fun to demonstrate another real application in WPF/E.

It all begins life as a single blue-chrome ball that expands out, and then the various menu points are visible.

I've been playing with the logic quite a bit to avoid nasty interactions and while I don't think there are any more right now, I consider this to be a work-in-progress and will very possibly be making large changes to it as thoughts change.

March 12, am: After watching someone use the menu app this morning, it appears I have work remaining on removing menus when selections are made :(  If I remove the pull-off menu on the first menu drop-down, the problem goes away, but I really wanted to try to get a pull-off working and thought I had it last night. As I said... it's a work in progress!

At this point, each Sample is a separate menu point, but I may change that and have multiples per display page... I have a limited number at this time, and it not only seemed to work well, but was expedient for getting it on the site.

Reskinning it would be possible, but I didn't see a reason for it. There's only 3 pieces of artwork: The ball, the bar, and a set of 'eyelids' for the menus. Since the bar is a brushed gradient, I could use the same 'eyelid' code for all the menus.

I'll write about some of the fun parts of this, but for now it's simply a functioning menu page.

If you hit my site without taking the link, this is the first entry inside the WPF/E set of links. It's a sticky link that stays on top of that list.