Grila's Custom BigBox Controls

[Grila]

On 11/9/2017 at 8:50 PM, y2guru said:

1.  you are awesome if you could make that change, otherwise I can just clone my view and remove the battery.. either way is cool, I wouldn't go out of the way for me :-)

Here you go. Don't forget to unblock it.

 

GrilaBBControlsPlugin.dll

[y2guru]

You are da man!! Can’t thank you enough ?  I have another idea if you want to hear about it ? and it’s not related to this.

Edited November 13, 2017 by y2guru

[shinra358]

Any progress on the divided battery?

[y2guru]

4 hours ago, Grila said:

Here you go. Don't forget to unblock it.

 

GrilaBBControlsPlugin.dll

@grila  I just got home, so as the .dll is named differently do I just go into VS and reference this one and make the necessary changes to my XAML ?

[Grila]

It shouldn't be named different, it was built from the existing solution. What's the other one called?

[y2guru]

GrilaControlLibrary.dll  dated 4/18/2017 9:58am

[Grila]

I just downloaded the file from the downloads section and it is indeed named GrilaBBControlsPlugin.dll, the same as the new one I posted.

[y2guru]

what the hell was I drinking on Friday??!!  I downloaded the Switch theme I believe and borrowed the .dll, would that have made a difference?  anyway... ill add the reference via VS etc ..

[Grila]

Just now, y2guru said:

what the hell was I drinking on Friday??!!  I downloaded the Switch theme I believe and borrowed the .dll, would that have made a difference?  anyway... ill add the reference via VS etc ..

Ahh yes, I made a few minor changes to suit that theme in particular.  You should be using the one from the Downloads section.

[y2guru]

ah, my bad :-(  but hey.. it worked nonetheless!!

[Grila]

15 hours ago, shinra358 said:

Any progress on the divided battery?

Sorry @shinra358 I just noticed this comment. I honestly forgot all about that but now that you've reminded me I will start working on it for you.

[Grila]

@shinra358 Here you go, complete with the charging animation. It's a separate dll so you'll have to add a new reference. There is a handful of exposed properties to control the color and a bool for showing the battery percent. The battery percent styling is done through through the normal control properties (FontFamily, FontSize, Foreground, etc.). The charging animation will obviously only play when PowerLineStatus is Online and BatteryLifePercent < 0. Once the battery reaches 100%, the animation will stop regardless of PowerLineStatus.

There are 2 controls in the dll: PSPBatRounded and PSPBatSquare. Should be pretty self-explanatory on what they are...

Here's the file: GrilaPSPBattery.dll

And here's a few shots showing it in BB:

PSPBatSquare (ShowBatteryPercent=True)

PSPBatSquare (ShowBatteryPercent=False)

PSPBatRounded (ShowBatteryPercent=True)

PSPBatRounded (ShowBatteryPercent=False)

[shinra358]

Excellent! Thanks

Edit: Does the battery juice still have the glass look? I wanted separated battery juice but with the same glass look as default plugin.

Edited November 15, 2017 by shinra358

[y2guru]

That’s awesome @grila !!  You do great work! Can’t wait to check this out later

[y2guru]

6 minutes ago, shinra358 said:

I added the reference the I placed this at the top:  xmlns:p="clr-namespace:GrilaPSPBattery;assembly=GrilaPSPBattery"

Then I placed this in the proper section: <pb:PSPBatSquare ShowBatteryPercent="true" />

 

But it says pb:PSPBatSquare doesn't exist in  xmlns:p="clr-namespace:GrilaPSPBattery;assembly=GrilaPSPBattery".

What am I doing wrong?

Did you open visual studio and add the reference to the new .dll ?

[y2guru]

Just now, shinra358 said:

Yes. Right clicked on references. Pressed add reference. Chose the dll. Ok'd. And proceeded.

And proceeded to save... right?

[y2guru]

And the .dll is housed in one of the reference paths defined in VS?

[shinra358]

Got it. Had to close vs and then restart it for some reason. Now it works. Seems like adding references doesnt take effect until vs restart

[y2guru]

Very odd but I had issues with it the other night, it just didn’t want to add the .Dll’s.  Glad you got it working though

[Grila]

1 hour ago, shinra358 said:

Excellent! Thanks

Edit: Does the battery juice still have the glass look? I wanted separated battery juice but with the same glass look as default plugin.

I'm not sure what you mean by glass look. The original one is just a standard Windows progress bar inside a battery shaped outline.