I'm trying to develop my own app for windows phone 8, its an app to help visually impaired people text. I'm only starting off and im struggling to find stuff on how to create my own input method using a button so if the user taps or slides their finger on the screen it would print a letter into a text-box. Does anyone know if its even possible or any website to guide me in this task. thanks and any help would be much appreciated.
It is possible. Every UIElement has something like ManipulationStarted, ManipulationDelta and ManipulationCompleted events. You can play with them very well. Of course you need to program your own functions to recognize letters and so on.
You can read some information about that: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff426933(v=vs.105).aspx
I think you can find more articles if you search those events.
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Is there any way to hide or remove the video button from the App Bar on a WP8 application using CameraCaptureTask? Our app only includes taking pictures, no videos. That's why we think it would be better remove the video button if it isn't really a choice. CameraCaptureTask (native task) keeps the video button disabled but visible, instead hide it...
Thank you in advance.
To answer your question in short, no, there is no way to modify a native task in that manner.
That said, there is a way around this, be it a little more laborous.
You're going to need to create your own camera capture page.
Here is the official MSDN Documentation and code on how to accomplish this.
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpapps/Basic-Camera-Sample-52dae359/sourcecode?fileId=62725&pathId=1134966225
If it were me I would make a control that pops open when you need it that does the MSDN example.
Good luck to you and welcome to Windows Phone dev. If you want faster answers hit me up on the tweeter. #Anth0nyRussell
I have a flash-based screen that includes a small checkbox indicating whether or not the user would like the screen to show up on future visits. The design is done, and now I just need some assistance with AS3 to make it functional.
The check box is using one of the built-in Flash components. If the box is checked, I'd like for the tutorial not to show up upon future visits.
Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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I think this (http://www.adobe.com/security/flashplayer/articles/lso/) is what you are looking for.
Which is the best way to show complex message boxes in Windows Phone 8?
These are the ones i know off:
Default
Windows Phone Toolkit
Coding4Fun: http://coding4fun.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=MessagePrompt&referringTitle=Documentation
I am developing a static game.
Im looking to have a sort of settings menu as a message box. As these are quick things that should be very easily changed.
Also, Is it a good idea to do the same for the main game menu.
The rational of both these is that the player should should not be taken away from the main game.
The message box can have multiple buttons, toggle switches, text boxes etc.
My 0.02$: It's best if game menus (start menu, settings menu, high scores, etc) are all rendered in native format as part of the game. That way those menus can have the look & feel of the rest of the game. That being said, that's a lot of work building those extra screens so it's really up to you if you want to shortcut development and reduce development time by using a substandard UX.
Anybody know any good resources for touch interface in AS3? Maybe with example downloads of simple user interface examples such as swiping lists etc. I could write code that reacts to the mouse events but I was wondering if their is a more a intuitive way of doing it using the native touch events class? Thanks. I also believe better 3rd party classes are available but I would rather stick with the adobe classes right now unless you guys think otherwise?
Check out Multi Touch Gesture Applications and Responding to Raw Touch Data for a start.
I am a flash developer who has worked mostly on small ActionScript projects, in particular websites, but I am dipping my toes into image manipulation with AS3. I have a project I'm working on to develop an application which would allow a user to upload their own picture into a swf, and then, using a slider, they can alter the image to make themselves look thinner or fatter. The condition is that it should require minimal user input - so ideally the most I could expect from the user would be a couple of control points identifying certain areas of the face in response to prompts e.g. 'click on the centre of the chin' and when the user clicks, the position would be stored, but this would need to be used sparingly, if at all.
So far, I have been able to use the FileReference class to handle the upload, and I am experimenting with using the DisplacementMap filter to edit certain parts of the uploaded image, but I am having serious trouble implementing this in a manner that would allow realistic deformation of the facial features in the image uploaded.
Is there anything that exists that might run along the same lines and that provides an explanation/source code I could look at to get a better idea of how to go around doing this? Or if there are any other ideas on how to manipulate and distort the image that doesn't use the DisplacementMap Filter?
Any feedback and help is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.
see http://sakri.net/technology/flash/flex/convolution_filter/ConvolutionFilterExplorer.html
(source code available)