Adam Frisby

It’s alive.

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It's alive - XBAP Viewer

Yes, It’s alive.

As previously posted - I’ve been playing around with doing a viewer in WPF as a XBAP Browser Application. The above is a screenshot from it - at the moment it’s pretty primitive. No textures or colours (everything is a black box), however scales and positions are set correctly.

This is about 2-3 hours work so far (most of which was learning the WPF SDK), but it’s showing promise already. One of the problems I have been having is that the security sandbox requires cryptographic signatures on each component (and there’s a valid reason behind this), but getting that signature on libomv  has been painful, so for the moment I have abandoned the sandboxed version and require a small installer on the first run.

I will post more as I finish bits and pieces. The code is very first-generation hacky and ugly, but in theory there’s some potential for promise here.

Update #1: Slightly better image

After discovering that everything was black due to a lack of light sources in the scene, I have added two and the results look a bit nicer.

Better image

Written by Adam Frisby

July 30th, 2008 at 12:41 am

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  1. Great work Adam!

    G2 Proto

    30 Jul 08 at 11:20 am

  2. [...] Frisby just posted about his XBAP based embedded browser; an excellent idea - so after a bit of late-night hacking we just had to share this screenshot [...]

  3. Yeah, way cool!

    Stefan

    1 Aug 08 at 6:25 pm

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