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rodrigoratan · 07-10-2007, 12:22 AM

Hi Vlad, congratulations on your CarPC project progress!

I'm also interested in buying the hardware but right now (in my little precious free time) i'm working in my own 'skin' of RoadRunner (in fact it will be a new frontend, but I will try to keep some kind of compatibility with RR/MediaCar skins) using WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation, aka Avalon, and BASE of Silverlight, the new web user interface plataform by MS) and C# in .NET 3.5

I'm starting the tests embedding D6 inside WPF, now I have a problem that COM objects are layered Windows inside WPF, and like ActiveX on Internet Explorer are ALWAYS on Top, you can't use overlayers.

So I found a way using some hack in .NET to Copy the visual to a BitmapSource of a VisualBrush so I will be able to render it like I wanted in WPF also taking advantage of true 3D rendering, I could make a "Cube-like" interface or something similar easy.

Hope I can soon share my progress with you and other (few yet) brazilian CarPC users.

Cya!

See ya!

07-10-2007, 12:22 AM	#27
rodrigoratan Newbie Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 10	Hi Vlad, congratulations on your CarPC project progress! I'm also interested in buying the hardware but right now (in my little precious free time) i'm working in my own 'skin' of RoadRunner (in fact it will be a new frontend, but I will try to keep some kind of compatibility with RR/MediaCar skins) using WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation, aka Avalon, and BASE of Silverlight, the new web user interface plataform by MS) and C# in .NET 3.5 I'm starting the tests embedding D6 inside WPF, now I have a problem that COM objects are layered Windows inside WPF, and like ActiveX on Internet Explorer are ALWAYS on Top, you can't use overlayers. So I found a way using some hack in .NET to Copy the visual to a BitmapSource of a VisualBrush so I will be able to render it like I wanted in WPF also taking advantage of true 3D rendering, I could make a "Cube-like" interface or something similar easy. Hope I can soon share my progress with you and other (few yet) brazilian CarPC users. Cya! See ya! Last edited by rodrigoratan; 07-10-2007 at 12:28 AM.