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    • Chris FullmerC Offline
      Chris Fullmer
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      I was guessing their specific UI was. I don't know much about silverlight - is that what the UI is made with?

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
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        Diego mentioned it was made with HTML + Silverlight.

        Though, I don't see anything that can't be made with regular HTML+JS+CSS. Silverlight seems a bit heavy handed for a UI - and you require the suers to install a plugin.

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          DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ
          last edited by

          very good:). I doubt java + html + css, was whether they could use all the features of ruby.
          for example.
          posibility change to HTML + css + java the interface of all fredo curviloft tool?

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          • JD HillJ Offline
            JD Hill
            last edited by

            @thomthom said:

            I don't see anything that can't be made with regular HTML+JS+CSS.

            In my defense, there are some things:

            [flash=285,294:12en6b6s]http://downloads.simplesoftwaresystems.com/sketchup/tex.swf[/flash:12en6b6s]
            (I couldn't make this auto-play, so right-click)

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              @jd hill said:

              @thomthom said:

              I don't see anything that can't be made with regular HTML+JS+CSS.

              In my defense, there are some things:

              [flash=285,294:1h7drebw]http://downloads.simplesoftwaresystems.com/sketchup/tex.swf[/flash:1h7drebw]
              (I couldn't make this auto-play, so right-click)

              Yes? I still don't see anything that can't be done with HTML+CSS+JS...

              @diego-rodriguez said:

              posibility change to HTML + css + java the interface of all fredo curviloft tool?

              Possible, yes - but why? works well the system he has. Putting together a UI frameworks isn't a light task.

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
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                @jd hill said:

                @thomthom said:

                I don't see anything that can't be made with regular HTML+JS+CSS.

                In my defense, there are some things:

                Ok - modifying the image is something one can not do in pure HTML+JS+CSS...

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                  DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ
                  last edited by

                  if it works well. but for me.
                  one good thing about sketchup is its graphical interface.
                  if plugin interfaces are similar, "believe" would be better.
                  nice and better integrated.

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                  • JD HillJ Offline
                    JD Hill
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                    @thomthom said:

                    Ok - modifying the image is something one can not do in pure HTML+JS+CSS...

                    While it's nice to be able to use HLSL to manipulate images in the browser, there are other reasons as well.

                    The UI part of the project is about 70K lines at the moment, supports undo/redo for absolutely all actions, and operates in a fully modeless fashion within SketchUp. Imho, it would be much more difficult and error-prone to try to do this in JS than in C#. Also, the UI works exactly the same on SU6/7/8/Win/OSX.

                    For projects smaller than this, of course I agree that HTML/CSS/JS would often make much more sense.

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                    • tbdT Offline
                      tbd
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                      JD: so the user needs the Silverlight installed on the machine ?

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                      • JD HillJ Offline
                        JD Hill
                        last edited by

                        Yes, they do.

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          Anyone tried the Flash FIR framework?

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                          • JD HillJ Offline
                            JD Hill
                            last edited by

                            I'm not familiar with that, do you have any links?

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                            • thomthomT Offline
                              thomthom
                              last edited by

                              Sorry, my bad - typo - AIR.
                              http://www.adobe.com/products/air/

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                              • JD HillJ Offline
                                JD Hill
                                last edited by

                                Ah, I really should have inferred that. It's basically just a runtime for running Flash out-of-browser, isn't it?

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  I've not used it - but I was under the impression it also had a framework with pre-made UI widgets... ?

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                                  • JD HillJ Offline
                                    JD Hill
                                    last edited by

                                    Just a guess, as I'm in no way a Flash guy, but I think you may be thinking of Flex, rather than AIR.

                                    Developer - Bella Render

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      Quite possibly I've gotten them two mixed up. 😳 I'm not a Flash guy myself.

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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
                                        last edited by

                                        JD - your Silverlight UI - do you use a ready made framework? Skinned? Or did you build one yourself?

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                                        • AdamBA Offline
                                          AdamB
                                          last edited by

                                          Looks cool but you've stopped any possibility of doing this on non-Windows platforms.
                                          No?

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                                          • JD HillJ Offline
                                            JD Hill
                                            last edited by

                                            @thomthom said:

                                            JD - your Silverlight UI - do you use a ready made framework? Skinned? Or did you build one yourself?

                                            I did write this myself.

                                            @adamb said:

                                            Looks cool but you've stopped any possibility of doing this on non-Windows platforms.
                                            No?

                                            No, Silverlight runs fine run on Windows or OSX. There is spotty support for it in linux, but it lags the official SL version by a point or two. But linux was not an issue here anyway.

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