Comments on: WPF Drop-Shadows on The Cheap http://www.designerwpf.com/2008/02/08/wpf-drop-shadows-on-the-cheap/ Matthias Shapiro's WPF & Silverlight Blog - Because Developers Get All The Good Blogs Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:07:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Derek http://www.designerwpf.com/2008/02/08/wpf-drop-shadows-on-the-cheap/#comment-167 Derek Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:03:28 +0000 http://www.designerwpf.com/2008/02/08/wpf-drop-shadows-on-the-cheap/#comment-167 Never mind, I'm a dunce. (Well, I'm the IA who helps with coding. :) ). Putting the dropshadow around a border inside the canvas works great. Thanks for this post--these panels would look really bad without a drop shadow, and this solution works great. Never mind, I’m a dunce. (Well, I’m the IA who helps with coding. :) ). Putting the dropshadow around a border inside the canvas works great.

Thanks for this post–these panels would look really bad without a drop shadow, and this solution works great.

]]> By: Derek http://www.designerwpf.com/2008/02/08/wpf-drop-shadows-on-the-cheap/#comment-166 Derek Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:19:48 +0000 http://www.designerwpf.com/2008/02/08/wpf-drop-shadows-on-the-cheap/#comment-166 I'm having trouble getting this to work in our application. We have a floating panel to do searches, from which we had to remove the bitmapeffect dropshadow for the usual perf reasons. But using the solution above, the shadow draws on top of another panel, and in general doesn't behave per the example. In summary, we have a MainWindow.xaml, which is a container for various other user controls for application content. One of these is a canvas holding a search control. When I put the simpledropshadow around the Canvas, in the same row and column and with the same z-order, I don't get anything. If I don't specify the row and column, it draws over the entire left side of MainWindow; if I move the z-order for the shadow lower than the canvas, it doesn't draw. Any suggestions? Also, you forgot to mention in your example that you must include a reference to Presentation.Luna in your project to find the simple dropshadow. I’m having trouble getting this to work in our application. We have a floating panel to do searches, from which we had to remove the bitmapeffect dropshadow for the usual perf reasons. But using the solution above, the shadow draws on top of another panel, and in general doesn’t behave per the example.

In summary, we have a MainWindow.xaml, which is a container for various other user controls for application content. One of these is a canvas holding a search control. When I put the simpledropshadow around the Canvas, in the same row and column and with the same z-order, I don’t get anything. If I don’t specify the row and column, it draws over the entire left side of MainWindow; if I move the z-order for the shadow lower than the canvas, it doesn’t draw. Any suggestions?

Also, you forgot to mention in your example that you must include a reference to Presentation.Luna in your project to find the simple dropshadow.

]]> By: Matthias Shapiro http://www.designerwpf.com/2008/02/08/wpf-drop-shadows-on-the-cheap/#comment-117 Matthias Shapiro Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:39:19 +0000 http://www.designerwpf.com/2008/02/08/wpf-drop-shadows-on-the-cheap/#comment-117 Thank God for that news release. I now feel like there is little point in completing the second part of this post. Thank God for that news release. I now feel like there is little point in completing the second part of this post.

]]> By: Ryan Cromwell http://www.designerwpf.com/2008/02/08/wpf-drop-shadows-on-the-cheap/#comment-116 Ryan Cromwell Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:31:03 +0000 http://www.designerwpf.com/2008/02/08/wpf-drop-shadows-on-the-cheap/#comment-116 Deavon... http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/19/net-3-5-client-product-roadmap.aspx DropShadow and Blur will be hw accelarated soon - hopefully soon enough for you... Choices must be made during releases, certainly with such a large audience you have been in the same position. Deavon… http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/19/net-3-5-client-product-roadmap.aspx

DropShadow and Blur will be hw accelarated soon - hopefully soon enough for you… Choices must be made during releases, certainly with such a large audience you have been in the same position.

]]> By: Deavon Barlow http://www.designerwpf.com/2008/02/08/wpf-drop-shadows-on-the-cheap/#comment-113 Deavon Barlow Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:24:06 +0000 http://www.designerwpf.com/2008/02/08/wpf-drop-shadows-on-the-cheap/#comment-113 Honestly, is Microsoft planning on implementing any hardware accelerated bitmap effects? I don't understand why hardware accelerated drop shadows couldn't be feasible. I've been working on an application which will ship on 100 million PCs worldwide, and am looking for expert solutions to common WPF problems. Thanks. Honestly, is Microsoft planning on implementing any hardware accelerated bitmap effects? I don’t understand why hardware accelerated drop shadows couldn’t be feasible. I’ve been working on an application which will ship on 100 million PCs worldwide, and am looking for expert solutions to common WPF problems.

Thanks.

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