Support for MS Windows Presentation Foundation

cincura.net · Post by **cincura.net** » 10 May 2006, 00:18

Hi *,

preparing is Altap some new productivity and usability features for new Windows Vista and Presentation Foundation (formerly code named "Avalon")?

Is Avalon etc. in Altap plans involved?

Post by **Jan Rysavy** » 10 May 2006, 01:03

No, we hope that Windows Vista will be postponed again. The longer the better.

cincura.net · Post by **cincura.net** » 14 May 2006, 12:27

Jan Rysavy wrote:No, we hope that Windows Vista will be postponed again. The longer the better.

On my machine I'm running WinFX and Vista (for testing). So the support for Avalon, when Vista will be released would be good advantage (before other file-managers).

SvA · Post by **SvA** » 14 May 2006, 14:14

What do you think was the advantage of using it for an existing app?

Salamander would certgainly loose support for Win95/98/ME/NT/2000. And what's the gain? A fancy look which is distracting from Work?

cincura.net · Post by **cincura.net** » 14 May 2006, 22:41

SvA wrote:What do you think was the advantage of using it for an existing app?

Salamander would certgainly loose support for Win95/98/ME/NT/2000. And what's the gain? A fancy look which is distracting from Work?

There's a huge number of usability improvements. User can "reorder" application to self to make own work better, etc. For more info read some articles on MSDN. It's not only about "nice icons".

If there's presentation layer well derived from working code, there's no problem to build the new. BTW W95/98 are out, whatever you'll say.

I don't think, that it must be here right now, but starting sooner is better than later.