WPF Designer tool

JorisWils · Post by **JorisWils** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:18 am

Hi

Using the WPF designer I have a few things that could be better. These are not bugs, but can make working with the designer better.

- when you try to change one of the properties of a textbox in the properties-pane: when selecting the "width"-property, the pane scrolls back to the top and I have to scroll back down to start typing. Also I have to press "tab" in order to really change the value. If I don't press tab and click on another property, the value changes to the old value again.

- When I change the "left"-property of a textbox in the properties-pane, the actual textbox does not change place.

- Seems like the Text editor in the condition-property on a textbox does not have IntelliSense

- In the properties-pane when selecting a page: The PageHeight and pageWidth do not change when you change the paperSize-property. Isn't it supposed to change?

- The list of papersizes in the properties-pane and pagesetup are diffrent. Aren't these supposed to be the same?

- The events editor also doesn't have IntelliSense ( for exaple when typing "String." ) The .NET designer did do this. Is it possible to integrate that in the wpf designer too?

It would make my work a lot easier if these things could be resolved.

Joris

Post by **Alex K.** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:41 am

Hello,

JorisWils wrote:- when you try to change one of the properties of a textbox in the properties-pane: when selecting the "width"-property, the pane scrolls back to the top and I have to scroll back down to start typing. Also I have to press "tab" in order to really change the value. If I don't press tab and click on another property, the value changes to the old value again.

Unfartunately, on current moment, properties-pane not be changed.

JorisWils wrote:- When I change the "left"-property of a textbox in the properties-pane, the actual textbox does not change place.

We couldn't reproduce this bug. Which version of Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf do you use?

JorisWils wrote:- Seems like the Text editor in the condition-property on a textbox does not have IntelliSense

We have added your request to our to-do list, but I cannot say when it will be available.

JorisWils wrote:- In the properties-pane when selecting a page: The PageHeight and pageWidth do not change when you change the paperSize-property. Isn't it supposed to change?

We couldn't reproduce this bug. Could you explain your issue in more details?

JorisWils wrote:- The list of papersizes in the properties-pane and pagesetup are diffrent. Aren't these supposed to be the same?

Could you explain your issue in more details?

JorisWils wrote:- The events editor also doesn't have IntelliSense ( for exaple when typing "String." ) The .NET designer did do this. Is it possible to integrate that in the wpf designer too?
Joris

We have added your request to our to-do list, but I cannot say when it will be available.

Thank you.

JorisWils · Post by **JorisWils** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:50 am

Aleksey wrote:
JorisWils wrote:- When I change the "left"-property of a textbox in the properties-pane, the actual textbox does not change place.
We couldn't reproduce this bug. Which version of Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf do you use?

WPF Version 2010.3
I only seem to have this problem when opening reports that were once created with .NET 2009.2

Aleksey wrote:
JorisWils wrote:- In the properties-pane when selecting a page: The PageHeight and pageWidth do not change when you change the paperSize-property. Isn't it supposed to change?
We couldn't reproduce this bug. Could you explain your issue in more details?

Changing from A4 to B5 doesn't change paperheight and paperwidth. Yet B5 has diffrent sizes doen't it?

Aleksey wrote:
JorisWils wrote:- The list of papersizes in the properties-pane and pagesetup are diffrent. Aren't these supposed to be the same?
Could you explain your issue in more details?

When you have a page selected, you can see the papersize in the property-pane but also when you click "design" in the context menu of the page (page setup). The list in the page setup window differs from the list in the property pane. In the property pane there are a lot mor papersizes in the drop-down menu.

Post by **Andrew** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:07 am

Hello,

WPF Version 2010.3
I only seem to have this problem when opening reports that were once created with .NET 2009.2

Please send us a report in which the issue can be reproduced.

Changing from A4 to B5 doesn't change paperheight and paperwidth. Yet B5 has diffrent sizes doen't it?

When you have a page selected, you can see the papersize in the property-pane but also when you click "design" in the context menu of the page (page setup). The list in the page setup window differs from the list in the property pane. In the property pane there are a lot mor papersizes in the drop-down menu.

We have checked the issues and find no errors.
Could you, please describe in detail what is going wrong.

Thank you.

JorisWils · Post by **JorisWils** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:49 am

Andrew wrote:Hello,

WPF Version 2010.3
I only seem to have this problem when opening reports that were once created with .NET 2009.2
Please send us a report in which the issue can be reproduced.

Can't seem to reproduce it either. Could it be that it had some other cause like zoom? ( Had some weird behaviour with zoom too wich I can't seem to reproduce )

Andrew wrote:
Changing from A4 to B5 doesn't change paperheight and paperwidth. Yet B5 has diffrent sizes doen't it?

Can't seem to reproduce it either.

Andrew wrote:
When you have a page selected, you can see the papersize in the property-pane but also when you click "design" in the context menu of the page (page setup). The list in the page setup window differs from the list in the property pane. In the property pane there are a lot mor papersizes in the drop-down menu.
We have checked the issues and find no errors.
Could you, please describe in detail what is going wrong.

Thank you.

See video Here. Not really an issue though.

In general: Seems like the WPF designer is a lot slower in use than the .Net version. (I have a core2duo 2.5Ghz and 4 GB RAM )
My developer-collegue says that that "slow" behaviour (WPF problem) is solved in WPF 4. (.NET 4 )
Are there any plans on moving to the new version? ( I know this is a really big "feature-request" :grinder: )
I must add that I am using a report with 93 pages, but the .NET designer doesn't seem to get any slower.

Post by **Andrew** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:15 am

Hello,

See video Here. Not really an issue though.

In PageSetup Editor we have a list of "Paper Size" supported with the current printer, and we cannot change it.

In general: Seems like the WPF designer is a lot slower in use than the .Net version. (I have a core2duo 2.5Ghz and 4 GB RAM )
My developer-collegue says that that "slow" behaviour (WPF problem) is solved in WPF 4. (.NET 4 )

We do not plan to transfer the product on .NET 4, but we can make the assembly under .NET 4 for you.

Thank you.