Thanks Scott. I'm glad for your sake your designer skills are better than your analogies. :p
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Scott Barnes <[email protected]>wrote: > Metro is so dead simple to do inside WPF its like stealing design pixels > from an overweight rich design pixel dude..who owns..lots of pix...ya know > what, i have no analogy here but suffice to say metro is simple. > > Tip: Wireframe your UI, then color it in. > > Stick to three primary colors, Chrome (aka Accent) | Brand (usually just 1x > color can be 2 ..UPS (Brown/Gold), Aust Post (Red) etc... and Input (Like > your car, you pop the hood and anything yellow means "touch friendly" > anything not yellow, leave it alone..same principle applies. > > Now you've been taught metro ;) > : > > --- > Regards, > Scott Barnes > http://www.riagenic.com > > > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Winston Pang <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Stephen, >> >> Yeah, I'm not sure if there's any solid WPF Metro theme packs around. Our >> application (MetroTwit) was the victim of markup theft from the Metro >> Toolkit, hence the copywrite infringement you saw on the codeplex site. They >> literally took all our XAML and dumped it in a zip, without even modifying >> the namespaces so there was MetroTwit references all over it. >> >> It took us a good few months till all our theme files were matured up. >> >> I think Chronos might be the best bet for now. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -Winston >> >> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Stephen Price <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> Am back into the WPF scene, just started a UI Designer role. I want to >>> have a Metro theme, and the client loves it. So far I've found Chronos WPF >>> which looks to be in beta, and Metro Toolkit (which says don't use it until >>> they resolve a copywrite infringement). >>> Just wondering if anyone has come across anything else? So far in my >>> searching it's looking like the Metro theme is primarily in the Silverlight >>> world. >>> >>> cheers, >>> Stephen >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ozwpf mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozwpf >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ozwpf mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozwpf >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ozwpf mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozwpf > >
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