Comments on: Avalon http://blog.affien.com/archives/2005/01/25/avalon/ A few thoughts Sun, 31 May 2009 12:07:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Bas http://blog.affien.com/archives/2005/01/25/avalon/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Bas Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:58:16 +0000 http://blog.w-nz.com/archives/2005/01/25/avalon/#comment-38 I can create exactly the same using Windows.Forms although I guess there would be some things that would be harder to do in window forms than in avalon. I can create exactly the same using Windows.Forms although I guess there would be some things that would be harder to do in window forms than in avalon.

]]> By: Zef Hemel http://blog.affien.com/archives/2005/01/25/avalon/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Zef Hemel Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:36:56 +0000 http://blog.w-nz.com/archives/2005/01/25/avalon/#comment-37 Avalon is a vector-based graphics library, which means that it doesn't work with bitmaps and absolute values; every measurement is relative. You can scale anything to really huge or really small proportions. For example, in Windows.Forms you would say, "this and this control is placed at (20,20) and has width 100 and height 15. No matter the resolution of your screen or size of your windows, it would always be that big. Avalon allows to automatically scale your controls by using percentages or one of the lay-out managers. It's all a bit like the Java (and GNOME) lay-out managers. Avalon is a vector-based graphics library, which means that it doesn’t work with bitmaps and absolute values; every measurement is relative. You can scale anything to really huge or really small proportions. For example, in Windows.Forms you would say, “this and this control is placed at (20,20) and has width 100 and height 15. No matter the resolution of your screen or size of your windows, it would always be that big. Avalon allows to automatically scale your controls by using percentages or one of the lay-out managers.

It’s all a bit like the Java (and GNOME) lay-out managers.

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