MoonyDesk

A plug-in based widgets system
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  • License:
  • Freeware
  • Publisher Name:
  • Sergey Loktin
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows Vista / 7
  • File Size:
  • 582 KB

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MoonyDesk Description

Windows desktop plugin based widgets system written on WPF. The MoonyDesk application shows how to implement plugin based application and onscreen desktop widgets in WPF. Plugins for MoonyDesk: - Each plugin must implement IPlugin interface from MoonyPlugin.dll. - Each plugin has it's name and UIElement that will appear on desktop. - Also plugin can contain settings tabs that will be loaded in settings window in main application (for example: clock hours format settings 12/24). Each plugin has default settings such as size, location, topmost, rotation angle. So there's no need to implement this settings. IPlugin properties: name - name of the plugin DesktopElement - UIElemet that will be shown on desktop. This UIElement will be loaded as a content of DesktopWindow IPlugin methods: Initialize() – initialization method of the plugin Dispose() – dispose method of the plugin. Will be called on disabling of the plugin GetNewSettingsTabs() – returns list of SettingTabs. This method will be called on opening of SettingsWindow Plugin class can contain fields that define default settings: double DefaultTop - default Y position of the widget on the screen double DefaultLeft - default X position of the widget on the screen double DefaultSize - default size of the widget bool DefaultTopmost - default value that indicates whether widget is topmost bool DefaultMovable - default value that indicates whether widget is movable by mousedouble DefaultRotation - default rotation angle of the widget NOTE: There are only two widgets in alpha release: clock and weather widgets.


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