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Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby GreenPenguin » 24 Nov 2011 00:40

Hi all,
Im working on a google code in project to develop a Metro gui for the upcoming windows 8, i have a good understanding of vlc and visual studio 10 programming with visual basic and c/c++, but i have never worked with the vlc source code before. Where do i start, such as extracting the tarball and what files are important? thanks

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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 24 Nov 2011 02:07

The problem is that VLC will not compile in WinRT mode, as far as I know...
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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby GreenPenguin » 24 Nov 2011 02:30

Thanks Jean, Im not sure what you mean by this, i am able to run vlc on windows 8 64bit. Where can i go to learn more/or tutorials about this?

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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 24 Nov 2011 03:05

The Metro GUI needs a WinRT application, which means normal applications needs to be ported to it.
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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby weddi_eddy » 17 Apr 2012 16:56

As far as I can read, you use XAML for the UI only and you can use various types of language for the actual application that you tie into the UI.

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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 17 Apr 2012 18:02

The WinRT is sandboxed.
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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby weddi_eddy » 04 May 2012 11:07

Aha! So they are treating the Metro apps just like they do on Windows Phone. They have limited access to the OS except through APIs. (Is that correct?) I so, that's a bit of a pain...

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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 04 May 2012 17:12

Yep.
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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby weddi_eddy » 25 Jun 2012 12:28

*sigh* It is a bit of pain, but in the long run, I think it makes sense. From MS' standpoint, you either piss off the devs with this change of your continue to piss off the users with viruses and such. I just wish they had a central folder that all apps can access.

I do think it benefits VLC having a metro version as I have a feeling that MS may try to do away with the desktop in Windows 9 or 10. They have to support it for now but it looks like Metro is the future. The cool thing is that code from Windows 8 can be ported to Windows Phone 8 with minor changes.

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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 25 Jun 2012 16:08

The cool thing is that code from Windows 8 can be ported to Windows Phone 8 with minor changes.
This is far from sure :)
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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby DracheMitch » 21 Oct 2012 20:54

5 days before your post this appeared on engadget:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/wind ... -nt-kernel

So you were wrong. The point of Microsoft switching to the NT kernel on Windows Phone was to make it even easier to port apps between them. Microsoft also provides a guide for porting Windows Phone 7 apps to Windows 8.

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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 22 Oct 2012 11:31

So you were wrong.
No. Minor changes for small to medium application.

First the port to Windows 8 RT is HUGE task. Then, the move to WP8 should be doable...
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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby MetroUX » 01 Nov 2012 03:24

Hi guys, I'm a designer, you can contact me if you need help with the UI, I made a concept of VLC some days ago:
http://www.1800pocketpc.com/vlc-media-p ... ept/35525/

In any case here's my email: metrouxdesign [at] gmail [dot] com

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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 01 Nov 2012 11:13

nice.
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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby MetroUX » 03 Nov 2012 01:12

nice.
thanks! :wink:

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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby MetroUX » 19 Dec 2012 18:05

I just edited Argon's mockup a little bit: http://metroux.deviantart.com/art/VLC-M ... -343635327
Hope that you reach the goal. it's almost $33.000 now!

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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 19 Dec 2012 18:46

I just edited Argon's mockup a little bit: http://metroux.deviantart.com/art/VLC-M ... -343635327
Hope that you reach the goal. it's almost $33.000 now!
Nice update. However it should say "VLC" or "VLC Modern" not "VLC media player"

And the $33.000 was a mistake from KS
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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby MetroUX » 19 Dec 2012 23:15

I just edited Argon's mockup a little bit: http://metroux.deviantart.com/art/VLC-M ... -343635327
Hope that you reach the goal. it's almost $33.000 now!
Nice update. However it should say "VLC" or "VLC Modern" not "VLC media player"

And the $33.000 was a mistake from KS
What about "VLC Modern Player"? :)
Anyhow too bad for the KS bug. I really hope you reach the goal.

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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 20 Dec 2012 01:19

Why not, we don't know yet.
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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby MetroUX » 30 Dec 2012 02:48

Congrats with the KS campaign!
Just made a few changes here and there, now it really follows the Windows 8 Metro UI guidelines (the previous was a mix of Windows Phone and Windows 8 UIs).

Image

Are you considering to allow any sort of customization? A guy on DeviantART has asked for "skin" support. Honestly I think that using some accent colors may be better and easier to implement but maybe it's a bit to early to talk about this.

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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 30 Dec 2012 12:44

Sorry, no, we don't plan to have skins.
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Re: Windows 8 Metro gui

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 30 Dec 2012 12:45

Congrats with the KS campaign!
Just made a few changes here and there, now it really follows the Windows 8 Metro UI guidelines (the previous was a mix of Windows Phone and Windows 8 UIs).
You should contact us by mail.
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