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Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET
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Suggestion: A few common used controls #566

Closed claunia closed 8 years ago

claunia commented 8 years ago

May I suggest, a few controls/widgets that I've seen used a in a lot of places, yet it seems everyone has to custom code them.

A pixel map (not an image) that draws a Color[] as a series of squares and can optionally put a border separating them. Example:

Pie charts, filled to the center

and not

Circular progress "bars"

And why not other kind of plottings

Gauges

System tray / OSX Menubar icon.

cwensley commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion(s), though it's quite hard to track an issue with so many requests together. It is typically better to split them up so they can get different priority, etc. Anyway, here's some feedback that might help others, if they decide to look at doing any of this:

For charts/graphs, I suggest looking at OxyPlot which @LorenVS made Mac/WPF wrappers for here, or you can fix up the OxyPlot.Eto port here to support all of the platforms Eto supports.

As for the the pixel map, it'd be pretty dead simple to make your own based on the Drawable control.

I'm not sure what's available for Gauges, but it could be a lot of work if starting from scratch.

Cheers! Curtis.

claunia commented 8 years ago

@cwensley yeah I know but it's more like a list of suggestions that can then be split in separate issues for implementation. I though it was a good idea.

Some of them may be dead simple, some of them not so, but why reinvent the wheel?

claunia commented 8 years ago

Splitted as separate feature requests in #587, #588, #589, #590, #591 and #592.

cwensley commented 8 years ago

@claunia that's great, thank you!!

claunia commented 8 years ago

@cwensley don't kill me for spamming your issue tracker hehe.

cwensley commented 8 years ago

/me slaps @claunia around a bit with a large trout

.. though I asked for it 😜