SilverDraw Library

About a year ago I started work on a set of Silverlight libraries providing controls and classes that implement the primary features of a drawing application. Some of the results of that effort made their way into demos on this site, i.e. the ColorTools and GradientMaker demos. Eventually I also posted a partially complete demo of a drawing program, however not long after that I joined the J. Becker team, and have been heads down working with a small, creative group on some cool Silverlight media management stuff. The upshot of it all is that the drawing libraries, and the application they were designed to support, have been gathering dust.

This morning I received a request from Sweden for the source to GradientMaker, which I’m happy to share. I had previously released the source for the color controls in ColorTools, but the GradientEditor control hadn’t been added at that point. When I got around to implementing it I created a dependency on another small library which I hadn’t released, and so I put off adding the GradientEditor to what was publicly available. Prompted by this morning’s request I have whipped it all into shape and uploaded it to the site. See the download links at the end of the post.

The code is released under a new BSD license. In order to package it I ripped the projects for the two libraries out of the solution I created for the app last year, and placed them into a solution called SilverDraw. It’s a little aspirational at the moment, but I hope to add in some of the other drawing code I have written and release some updates to it soon. There is no documentation, but the code is pretty well-commented. If you have any questions feel free to email me.

Downloads: SilverDraw Assemblies, SilverDraw Source

2 thoughts on “SilverDraw Library

  1. Great Work,
    I’m currently learning Silverlight and my little project is exactly a GradientMaker!
    This is going to help me a lot, thanks!

    If I make any worthy improvements would you want them?

  2. I’m glad you liked the post. I don’t know if I’ll have time to work on GradientMaker in the near future, but if you come up with some improvements please feel free to post a comment here with a link or whatever. Thanks for stopping by.

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