Which is the best way to show complex message boxes in Windows Phone 8?
These are the ones i know off:
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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.
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Recently I've discovered that devices such as my Surface Pro 4 while browsing, with a single swipe from left to the right - go back to the previous site.
If I made a <nav> that responds to the same movement, how would I approach it to not load the previous page ?
Or rather shouldn't such a movement be implemented on a website anyway?
Personally I think that swiping menu navigations are great, so it'd be nice to find something that blocks the event of loading the previous page.
How I've created menus to this point was making them touch friendly for mobile & desktop (even though it has no touch support, so the user could just hold the LMB & drag).
I've attached an image of this happening if somebody doesn't have a touch device like mine. (the grey block on the left shows up if a user swipes)
So in summary:
Is it doable to turn this feature off for a user?
Should other steps be taken.
I want to change default loading screen when i navigate between pages on WP8 app but I don't know how to do it.
Thank you
So there is many ways of doing it and you need to address what exactly is your best solution.
So the splash screen is the first place to start, here you can specify images that should be used upon start the app. It is also possible to introduce animations.
Your case (As far as I understand) is referring to navigation in-app. Again here I assume you use Silverlight, and not Win-RT?
For this you can create either popups or change the PhoneApplicationFrame. Popups can be displayed across pages during navigation. This however has the issue with memory leak and low performance, because of the popup implementation in WP.
I would therefore go with changing the PhoneApplicationFrame, you can follow this: Specify Popup location, throughout page navigation
Very little information about you app, but maybe this will help:How to create a custom indeterminate progress bar for Windows Phone 8
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.
I have to Swipe the images in windows phone 8 apps without any Panorama or Pivot control.
I am using the Flick event for the swiping images. Images changing perfectly. But animation is not applied which means swiping animation is not coming.
Please suggest us.
There are several possible solutions, depending on the 'what' animation you want to see.
But a good solution can be found here...
The principle is easy, create a pivot control but manipulate it's content by plugging in into the pivot events.
I am still very much in the planning phase on this but here is the basic idea of what I want to do. I also have not done much/any web development in the past few years so I am a little out of the loop on what will/wont work.
I want to have a video playing essentially on a background layer with various widgets on top of it. The widgets will all be fairly simple HTML based text and maybe a few images. The widget also need to be movable (eg. I need to be able to drag and drop the widgets to move them). Finally I would really like it to work on a tablet (iPad or Android).
Am I going to need to use flash or silverlight for something like this? I would rather not because I know that makes it hard to get tablets working. I know HTML5 is supposed to be the new hotness but I don't really have a good idea of its capabilities.
Flash or Silverlight will rule out tablets (the iPad anyway), not just make them hard.
I'd start with jQueryUI it supports easily making elements moveable.