One screen at a time
Working on this budget application one screen at a time. And it is a fun experience. I don't know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, but I am picking things up at a rate that scares me into thinking that maybe Silverlight is too easy to use. Especially on the WP7 platform.
Today's screens were the ones related to the categories for the different budget items. I have a somewhat large panorama control (5 items-ish) and the last item I have on there right now is the Categories. I did the last screen first, because while in the long run it fades into obscurity, I need categories before I can do just about anything else. This brought up a very obvious problem very early. I found a solution and it is working, and there is one beef I have with it, but looking at Microsoft's implementation of the same control, it does appear that even they are stuck with it at the moment.
Basically, the issue is that within the panorama you cannot really programmatically change the selected tile within the panorama control. You CAN change the default which is what is loaded when the control is loaded, but this actually goes and sets that control as the first panel thus adjusting the banner. Not something that bothers me in this instance, and like I said, the marketplace app utilizes the panorama in the same fashion I am, and if you dig into another screen from the panorama and then go back, just as in my predicament, it isn't simply that I was brought back to the original panel, I was just brought back to the panorama control with the default panel changed.
The other thing that was new was hijacking the keyboard input to catch the enter key. I have done this a hundred times now in the past, but I expected to be either different or harder on windows phone. In actuality it shouldn't be that exciting to talk about, because it was identical to Silverlight for the desktop. But that in itself was surprising enough.
So the application is now one step closer to being able to do something relevant. Then I think I need to go back over it and make the original screens... not butt ugly.
And that is your daily update.
Today's screens were the ones related to the categories for the different budget items. I have a somewhat large panorama control (5 items-ish) and the last item I have on there right now is the Categories. I did the last screen first, because while in the long run it fades into obscurity, I need categories before I can do just about anything else. This brought up a very obvious problem very early. I found a solution and it is working, and there is one beef I have with it, but looking at Microsoft's implementation of the same control, it does appear that even they are stuck with it at the moment.
Basically, the issue is that within the panorama you cannot really programmatically change the selected tile within the panorama control. You CAN change the default which is what is loaded when the control is loaded, but this actually goes and sets that control as the first panel thus adjusting the banner. Not something that bothers me in this instance, and like I said, the marketplace app utilizes the panorama in the same fashion I am, and if you dig into another screen from the panorama and then go back, just as in my predicament, it isn't simply that I was brought back to the original panel, I was just brought back to the panorama control with the default panel changed.
The other thing that was new was hijacking the keyboard input to catch the enter key. I have done this a hundred times now in the past, but I expected to be either different or harder on windows phone. In actuality it shouldn't be that exciting to talk about, because it was identical to Silverlight for the desktop. But that in itself was surprising enough.
So the application is now one step closer to being able to do something relevant. Then I think I need to go back over it and make the original screens... not butt ugly.
And that is your daily update.
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