I’m working on a project and am creating a few custom paths but am having some really strange behavior occur with blend that I am just not able to explain.
I’m direct clicking upon a node on a path and am wanting to modify the exact location of it by clicking the up arrow.
Well, no matter which directly I click my arrow, its making the ENTIRE OBJECT scoot up and to the right like its floating in a diagonal path.
What the heck?!
About 2 weeks ago, I made the mistake of installing the SP1 update to blend – but the incorrect one. I had a full release version of Blend 2, but the Service Pack which I’d downloaded was for the preview.
The installer was angry, wouldn’t uninstall, wouldn’t repair – wouldn’t load. I’d get the beginning of the pretty window and then a windows crashed alert, do you want to let Microsoft know why this program crashed?
Launching Blend resulted in the beautiful message related to it expiring… ugh.
Well this happened the day after my preview version which was installed on my PC had expired! Suffice it to say, I was cut off from my fun almost all at once. I decided to concentrate on the PC, and come back to the Macbook later.
Well now is later and I decided to be adventurous and install Windows 7 on the macbook with a shiny new Parallels 4 virtual drive.
So far so good, we’re in the middle of the installation. I’ll blog if I run into problems or … well.
I’ll blog.
Oh, and by the way, if you were interested in trying out Windows 7, its downloadable for free as a Beta version here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx
The most recent group meeting with the Seattle Developer / Designer Interaction group was great – I think one of the most fun that we’ve had so far.
One of those attending was development Evangelist, Mithun Dhar, who mentioned to us the 2 upcoming XamlFest training events occuring next month.
I can’t help myself – 2 days of uninturupted training and colaboration with others who are interested in development and design working in WPF and Silverlight?
My email has been sent in to RSVP a spot – especially w/ mention that there are only 50 seats available!
Ok, so if you’re visiting and interested as well, here are a few links with information:
http://blogs.msdn.com/MithunD/
The skinny that you’ll find there is this:
Redmond & Portland both are hosts to XamlFest in the Pacific Northwest. There are other areas that have these events as well, but I’m just going to talk about the 2 which are close to my home. The Redmond, Washington one is the 16th and 17th (Monday and Tuesday) of February, and Portland, Oregon one is on the 19th and the 20th (Thursday and Friday).
If you wish to join, RSVP asap – seating is limited and I mean quite limited.
The email addresses are fairly obvious which is for which, so I’m going to just list them both below:
All who attend will obtain a copy of Expression Studio and Visual Studio 2008 Pro.
Join myself and many others at a meeting this evening dedicated to bridging the gap between Designers and Developers. SeattleD2ig meets this evening from 7pm – 8:30pm, and then for those who are interested, we’ll choose somewhere within walking distance and head out for a bite to eat, something to sip upon.
Where?
Not really in Seattle, its actually in Bellevue.
Details on the location for this meeting (-meeting location changed for this month’s meetup-) can be found at: SeattleD2ig.org
I’ve finally had some time to sit down at my new computer and get the final things installed on it so I can move forward with this new book that I have on Silverlight Animations, by Jeff Paries but I’d somehow managed to forget exactly how long it took to get everything set up the first time through.
So I’m sitting here, flipping between watching the installation bar, looking at statistics for various sites that I own or manage, and reading through emails. Rinse and repeat.
The installs themselves aren’t that much of an issue – actually the updates are what kill the coo-coo clock. Currently, I’m upgrading my visual studio to SP1 and then I’ll need to upgrade .net 3.5 to the most current service pack.
I dread 1 thing – what if I need to do them in a different order? I feel a potential murphy’s law moment coming my way in the near future.
Ugh – its happening again.
Every time I’m on a project which has me working on certain specific things or types of things over and over again, day after day, my brain shifts in such a way where everything around me starts to take on elements which remind me of or make my mind pick things apart in a similar way.
Well I’m doing it again. Buttons and icons are beginning to be nothing more than their separate parts rather than a whole. For play buttons, I’m not seeing the button as a single entity, instead, I’m seeing the gradients, gradient transition points, the shine element, etc. I’m driving down the road and seeing how I could recreate the tail end of the car in front of me in gradients and semi-transparencies. Thanks brain! Thank you very much!