[IronPython] IronPython and WPF .. too cool

[Brian]

I think there's a recent book out on WPF as well by Oreilly.

On 10/31/05, Shawn Farkas <Shawn.Farkas at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi Liam,
>
> You can check out http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/portals/html/7579a80a-fd14-440f-b6f7-a1193e100598.asp for links to WPF docs.
>
> In general the pre-release docs for WinFX (including WPF and WCF) are on http://winfx.msdm.microsoft.com
>
> -Shawn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Liam Clarke
> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 6:40 AM
> To: users at lists.ironpython.com
> Subject: Re: [IronPython] IronPython and WPF .. too cool
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'd just to like take a wee moment to say "Hi", first post etc. After
> hearing rumours about IronPython, I decided to actually find out what
> the fuss about the whole .NET thing was, and IronPython seemed the
> perfect way.
>
> Must say, very impressed with the .NET shebang, and how simply
> IronPython works with it.
> It's great to learn a new framework while remaining within my comfort
> zone, as I've only been coding a year, and solely in Python.
>
> As of finding this advice from Jim Hugunin in the list's archive:
> ---- site.py ----
> import sys
> sys.path.append('c://Python24//Lib')
> -----------------
>
> I am a very happy panda. Anyway, I was responding to the above post,
> and I'd like to say thank you to the OP. I downloaded and had a look
> at WFP/Avalon, or whatever it's properly called, and wow. Awesome.
> Kudos to MS for a coherent and what looks to be incredibly powerful
> GUI API. From my Python background I can only describe it as the ease
> of use of Tkinter with the power of wxPython, although it'd probably
> be better to say it's easier to use than Tkinter, and more powerful
> than wxPython on a Win32 platform.
>
> Out of curiosity, are there any docs for it yet? I managed to find
> some brief introductions and a hitch-hiker's guide on MSDN... but with
> some assumptions (and I'm also pleasantly surprised that WFP is quite
> intuitive) and use of Reflector(www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/) I
> managed to tweak a few things here and there, so I thought I'd post
> them up for general consumption if there isn't any docs yet.
>
> To change the font of the TextBlock -
>
> txtElement.Text            = "Look Ma, it's Courier New"
> txtElement.FontFamily   = FontFamily("Courier New")  #or other installed font
>
> And to add an icon or tooltip -
>
> mainWindow.Icon                  =   IconData("c:/games/RA2/RA2.ico")
> mainWindow.ToolTip              = "Yes, it's the Red Alert 2 icon..."
>
> I think there's more than one way to specify the icon, but I chose the
> simplest.
> There's a whole bunch of other font stuff too, FontStyle etc.
>
> I also ran a dir() on the textblock, panel, and window objects, and
> between them there's about 1500 attributes, but it's good to have a
> browse and find a point to start guessing from.
>
> Regards,
>
> Liam Clarke
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