http://midnightmuse.com.au Richard Wright's musings about software and other things that take his fancy Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:18:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Creating the list of songs was fairly straightforward. Now I need to show the words on the screen. I said in the previous post that I raised an event when the songslist selection changed. In the window, actually another control, I add a handler to listen to the event. Actually, ... http://midnightmuse.com.au/2008/08/29/another-step-backward/ After the last post I saved some songs and built a list box to hold the song titles. I should say a little about that. These days I don't write any SQL. I know that I still can write it because I wrote a simple SQL query for someone else ... http://midnightmuse.com.au/2008/08/29/filling-the-songs-listbox/ After the last post I had some words on the screen. I now need to be able to split them into verses and edit them. The whole point of a FlowDocument is that it flows. That is, it decides itself when to break into a new page. But I wanted to ... http://midnightmuse.com.au/2008/08/27/editing-songs/ I want to edit my songs, and in the editing I want to put some formatting. The Rich Text Box is the control to do this. Even in Winforms, the Rich Text Box would be the way to go. But in WPF it behaves differently. The first thing that you notice ... http://midnightmuse.com.au/2008/08/22/the-rich-text-box/ One thing I hadn't thought of yesterday when I wrote about the UI is the possibility of using WPF and winforms together. I have read, although I haven't tried it yet, that winforms can host WPF, and vice versa. At some stage through this project I will run an experiment on ... http://midnightmuse.com.au/2008/08/20/more-on-the-ui/ I often look back at the old days of programming. A computer couldn't do much so not much was expected. But things have changed. I now spend more and more time trying to build a decent looking user interface. I read a few weeks ago, and I wish I could ... http://midnightmuse.com.au/2008/08/19/a-start-with-the-ui/ It is time to get down to the details of what the Presentation Application – let's call it Presenter for now – will do. This is a first look at the required functionality Show list of all songs and other types of items. I will call everything a song for the ... http://midnightmuse.com.au/2008/08/18/presentation-part-2/ First some background. I attend a church which, like many others, uses a projector to show the hymns or songs which are to be sung. We also project other parts of the service, some prayers and some items which require a response from the congregation. Many churches, including ours, have followed ... http://midnightmuse.com.au/2008/08/16/presentation-software/ Everyone needs source control of some sort. You might think it is unnecessary for a small one-man or one-woman operation like mine. I used to think that. But I have been using Subversion for some years now, and I find it indispensible. Eric Sink has an old but still very ... http://midnightmuse.com.au/2007/12/05/visualsvn/ A friend suggested that I have a look at Facebook. I am sure that you have heard of it. Most likely you are already signed up. So I had a look. Unfortunately, you cannot look at much without joining. So I joined. Now I have some Facebook friends. I think I have ... http://midnightmuse.com.au/2007/11/26/ive-lost-my-zoo/