[IronPython] how to use IronPython in Silverlight 2

[Dino Viehland]

That's just Application.Current.RootVisual = myCanvas

This is what I've been doing in my own Silverlight experiments, but I suck at using XAML and Blend :)

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From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Foord
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 4:32 PM
To: Discussion of IronPython
Subject: Re: [IronPython] how to use IronPython in Silverlight 2

Jimmy Schementi wrote:
>
> To load a XAML file and set the RootVisual, you can do this:
>
> Application.Current.LoadRootVisual("file.xaml")
>
> It's how we do it in the python samples on http://dynamicsilverlight.net
>

Suppose you don't want to load a XAML file - how do you do that (but say
set a 'Canvas' instance you have created programatically) ?

Michael


> ~Jimmy
>
> *From:* users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com
> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] *On Behalf Of *Dino Viehland
> *Sent:* Friday, March 07, 2008 11:25 AM
> *To:* Discussion of IronPython
> *Subject:* Re: [IronPython] how to use IronPython in Silverlight 2
>
> One problem is that XamlReader.Load takes the string of XAML and not a
> filename. But there's something about the XAML that isn't working
> right too. I'm no XAML expert but simplifying it to the code below
> works, you can probably build something up from that. Personally for
> my Silverlight hacking I've just been building up the tree
> programmatically from Python code even though that's uncool J.
>
> from System.Windows import Application
>
> from System.Windows.Markup import XamlReader
>
> Application.Current.RootVisual = XamlReader.Load("""
>
> <Canvas Width="100" Height="100"
> xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007"
> xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
>
> <TextBlock FontSize="30" Text="hello world"/>
>
> </Canvas>""")
>
> *From:* users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com
> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] *On Behalf Of *Kevin Chu
> *Sent:* Friday, March 07, 2008 9:32 AM
> *To:* Discussion of IronPython
> *Subject:* Re: [IronPython] how to use IronPython in Silverlight 2
>
> hi Dino
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> But I try my sample (look attachment), It can't run! Is my code mistake ?
>
> *IronPython code:*
>
> from System.Windows import Application
> from System.Windows.Markup import XamlReader
>
> class App:
> def __init__(self):
> Application.Current.RootVisual = XamlReader.Load("app.xaml")
> self.scene = Application.Current.RootVisual.grid
> def start(self):
> # TO DO: Replace this with your application start logic.
> self.scene.message.Content = "Welcome to Silverlight and IronPython!"
>
> App().start()
>
> *XAML code:*
>
> <UserControl x:Class="System.Windows.Controls.UserControl"
> xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007"
> xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
>
> <Grid x:Name="grid" Background="White">
> <TextBlock x:Name="message" FontSize="30" />
> </Grid>
>
> </UserControl>
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Dino Viehland
> <dinov at exchange.microsoft.com <mailto:dinov at exchange.microsoft.com>>
> wrote:
>
> You'll need to download the Silverlight 2 SDK. After installing that
> you'll get all the necessary components installed into something like
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v2.0\Libraries\Client.
> Also installed is an extremely useful tool called Chiron which you'll
> find somewhere around C:\Program Files\Microsoft
> SDKs\Silverlight\v2.0\Tools\Chiron. Chiron can take your .py file and
> produce a .xap which includes the IronPython & DLR DLLs using the
> /zipdlr command line option. You can also use it to serve http
> requests and automatically serve up the .xap and let you just edit the
> files.
>
> So once you're ready to make your xap the directory you point at
> should contain a .py file (I'm not sure what the multi .py file
> experience is like, but w/ a single file the it doesn't seem the name
> matters). The simplest thing to put in there is:
>
> from System.Windows import Application
>
> from System.Windows.Markup import XamlReader
>
> Application.Current.RootVisual = XamlReader.Load("someXaml")
>
> You can see this from the Ruby perspective over at
> http://www.iunknown.com/2008/03/dynamic-silverl.html
>
> There's various options on how to deploy the DLLs, and you can get
> into manifest files to deploy additional DLLs, but hopefully that'll
> get you started.
>
> *From:* users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com
> <mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com>
> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com
> <mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com>] *On Behalf Of *Kevin Chu
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:39 PM
> *To:* Discussion of IronPython
> *Subject:* [IronPython] how to use IronPython in Silverlight 2
>
> Silverlight 2 beta1 tools for VS2008 only create C# code file,
>
> How to create a IronPython code file?
>
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