The Media Center Sandbox

Well, after month or two I realized I absolutelly don't understand mcml basics. Can anyone post here a simple example of layout that contains only one ColorFill object with some color and fills whole screen? Thanks.

ColorFill Layout="Fill" Content="Blue"

Cheers,
Andrew

Well, I figured this out in the end, but still, I don't get the results I need. Here's a layout I would like to achieve: http://shrap.net/wmc/layout.png
I would like to make it with relative values (no MinimumSize if possible) and that's probably the problem. Or maybe I don't have to worry and can use absolute positioning? But I guess there would be a problem on 4:3 screens right? Anyway, if you can create a layout according to the picture I posted, I'l be glad. Thanks.

shrap

edit: The yellow box has strict dimensions (150x100 px or something like that).

Here you go:

http://www.digitallivingsolutions.co.uk/examples/Blocks.zip

The example uses no MinimumSize (except on the yellow block which you said has strict dimensions) and all other sizing relative to each other and the page size.

I had to guess the relationship between the blocks so I may have got some of them wrong, but you should get the idea from the example.

Cheers,
Andrew

Thanks Andrew, it's great! I'll try to put it in my app and see what happens :) One interesting thing is it looks almost as my code, it makes perfectly sense (like my code :) but the result is completely different (your code works, mine not :) Anyway, thanks again.

shrap

Layouts are (I think) really tough to get your head around - the biggest issue is that if you get your layout dimensions wrong, parts of your layout may just not show at all.

Cheers,
Andrew

Uff, I finally won my war. I used docking layout in the end, because I wasn't able to make it looks as I wanted it. And the layout was, of course, quite complicated than the picture I posted, some minimal/maximal size restriction etc. Anyway, it's more or less done so I can move to another issue (will start new thread for that).

regards
Shrap