Technical Notes

• This demonstration was created using Silverlight 3. Sliverlight is a new Microsoft technology that can be used to create rich interactive web applications.
• Silverlight is capable of creating stunning visual effects and animations, but to keep the demonstration more realistic I tried to avoid any effects that might be too distracting.
• The ComboBox (drop down list) control was not available when I created this demo in Sivlerlight 2 and I haven't had time to add one in Silverlight 3, so in the meantime you can pick the font and the 'standard sizes' from lists. The font selection simply uses a button to cycle through a set of standard fonts.
• The size text boxes are display only at the moment, you can only change the size with the sliders or standard size list.
• No colour picker is available yet for the background colour.
• There is no smart cursor or focus movement yet.
• There are no tool tips yet.
• The large view buttons on the left are supposed to be push buttons with a simple flat appearance so they appear raised and depressed, but I need more time to create a complete set of styles to create that effect. They are supposed to have this more traditional look (with more pleasant colours):
  

Greg Keogh
21-Aug-2008