[forms-devel] Offer to extend Frame and add SegmentedButtonGroup

[Michael Ridland]

The SegmentedButtonGroup would not have native renderers it would be
composed of Xamarin.Forms views.

Thanks

*Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP*

XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists

www.xam-consulting.com

Blog: www.michaelridland.com



On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Michael Ridland <rid00z at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> With those colors and radius it looks like a iOS control but it's not
> necessarily for iOS only. Most likely colors and radius would be within the
> design of the app anyway, with a dark theme it would be dark and light
> theme it would be light.
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
>
>
> *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP*
>
> XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists
>
> www.xam-consulting.com
>
> Blog: www.michaelridland.com
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Jason Smith <jason.smith at xamarin.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> The frame corner properties seems fine, please submit a spec to the
>> Xamarin Evolution repo.
>>
>> The segmented button group is nice but how should it look on non-iOS
>> platforms?
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Michael Ridland <rid00z at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'm making an offer to implement two features in the Forms codebase, as
>>> per below. I'm happy to change spec based on feedback.
>>>
>>> *Extending the Frame to have two new properties.*
>>>
>>> Corners - a enum { All, TopLeft, TopRight, BottomLeft, BottomRight, None
>>> }
>>> CornerRadius - float with a radius for the corner
>>>
>>> Adding this feature to the Frame is a great building block for more
>>> advanced UI and controls.
>>>
>>> *Add new control SegmentedButtonGroup*
>>>
>>> Based on the new features of the Frame I can build a segmented button
>>> group control.
>>>
>>> <SegmentedButtonGroup OnColor="Blue" OffColor="White"
>>> SelectedIndex="{Binding SelectIndex, Mode=TwoWay}">
>>>     <SegmentedButtonGroup.SegmentedButtons>
>>>         <SegmentedButton Title="Button 1"/>
>>>         <SegmentedButton Title="Button 2"/>
>>>         <SegmentedButton Title="Button 3"/>
>>>     </SegmentedButtonGroup.SegmentedButtons>
>>> </SegmentedButtonGroup>
>>>
>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>
>>> This control is very useful and commonly used in modern apps, not to
>>> mention many designers are using it these days.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP*
>>>
>>> XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists
>>>
>>> www.xam-consulting.com
>>>
>>> Blog: www.michaelridland.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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