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ChildWindowResizeBehavior Silverlight 4

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    Resizing Windows Child in Silverlight
    3 Posts | Last Post April 22, 2010
    • Written April 22, 2010 
      The mouse wheel functions events are ready to use and the demo clearly demostrates the uses of this valuable development.
    • Written April 22, 2010 
      Interesting but that's not an intuitive action.
I think it would be better to have the ability to resize by pointing the cursor at one of the corner of the window and then click and dragging (a la windows)
    • Written April 22, 2010 
      Hi Clement,

thank you very much for your feedback.

A solution that supports changing the size of a ChildWindow using a click-drag action already exists. See the codeplex project FloatableWindow for Silverlight 3 by Tim Heuer, which can be downloaded at codeplex.com:

http://floatablewindow.codeplex.com/

I wanted to create something new and I wanted to implement it in particular as a behavior to provide a comfortable solution for designers and developers. And I wanted to implement it in a regular Silverlight 4 ChildWindow. The FloatableWindow by Tim Heuer is a refactoring of the regular Silverlight 3 ChildWindow Control.

You are right. Since this behavior and the functionality of changing the size by turning the mouse wheel is totally new it isn't already intuitive. It can't be because it is new. The more often it is used, the more it becomes intuitive. And I am convinced that is useful in a lot of scenarios.

Best regards,
Martin

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