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<blockquote data-quote="Albert" data-source="post: 642513" data-attributes="member: 67886">AW: Re: MediaPortal 2 progress reportYeah, that's true. That is one example which is not simple to do with standard means of MPF.That's a very good idea. Would you like to implement such a generic brush? That could be your &quot;first MP2 plugin&quot; and might be a cool graphics feature addon.As you perhaps know, we won't add every cool feature to the standard MP2 system, but we could ship that brush maybe in a toolbox for &quot;extended graphics&quot; or similar.Well, I'm not a master in shader programming, but I think it would not so easy to replace the LinearGradientBrush/RadialGradientBrush completely by an effect because there is still some code necessary to make the gradients work. But if you find a good way how the C# parts of the brushes can be replaced with all of its features, tell me please!See <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970904.aspx" target="_blank">here</a>. Well, the VisualBrush is not described so obvious. The VisualBrush is for drawing with the look of another &quot;Visual&quot; - typically a control. That other visual could be a visual which is already present in the visual tree of the screen or it could be a visual which has been especially instanciated for the VisualBrush.With a VisualBrush, you can for example draw a shape with the look of a Button.The implementation in MP2 isn't finished yet. Same with the image brushes. I will have to continue the implementation when I have time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Albert, post: 642513, member: 67886"] [b]AW: Re: MediaPortal 2 progress report[/b] Yeah, that's true. That is one example which is not simple to do with standard means of MPF. That's a very good idea. Would you like to implement such a generic brush? That could be your "first MP2 plugin" and might be a cool graphics feature addon. As you perhaps know, we won't add every cool feature to the standard MP2 system, but we could ship that brush maybe in a toolbox for "extended graphics" or similar. Well, I'm not a master in shader programming, but I think it would not so easy to replace the LinearGradientBrush/RadialGradientBrush completely by an effect because there is still some code necessary to make the gradients work. But if you find a good way how the C# parts of the brushes can be replaced with all of its features, tell me please! See [URL="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970904.aspx"]here[/URL]. Well, the VisualBrush is not described so obvious. The VisualBrush is for drawing with the look of another "Visual" - typically a control. That other visual could be a visual which is already present in the visual tree of the screen or it could be a visual which has been especially instanciated for the VisualBrush. With a VisualBrush, you can for example draw a shape with the look of a Button. The implementation in MP2 isn't finished yet. Same with the image brushes. I will have to continue the implementation when I have time. [/QUOTE]

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