Microsoft’s Xaml Islands used in a Clarion app. This allows “modern” UWP Windows controls to be used in a Win32 app

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Don said : 'Dries Dreason demonstrated that Microsoft’s Xaml Islands can be used in a Clarion app. This allows “modern” UWP Windows controls to be used in a Win32 app.And speaking of Win32, which is Clarion’s playground, Microsoft has re-invested heavily in Win32 with Project Reunion, WinUI 3, and Xaml Islands. Microsoft has said that Win32 is very much a priority as it still dominates the market.'My question is Does somebody uses that in Clarion 10 ?Yes, I understand the whole concept of this Microsoft story. In C++, C#, winforms can that all be done very easy and natively. However, in vain I tried to write clarion instructions, I did not manage that in Clarion. Probably, Clarion needs some template, CLW & INC, or not? In my opinion this Microsoft thing is more useful than easyhtml ect. , and as well it is a open source concept… If you have any suggestions you would like to share, thanks as well.

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Dries’s talk “Using XAML in a Clarion Application” was presented at CIDC 2019.
If you are a registered attendee then you can review the presentation, and materials, on the presentations page (after logging in.)
https://www.cidc2019.com/Presentations

If you are not an attendee, but you want to see the session, then you can still purchase on online registration via ClarionShop for $295.
https://www.clarionshop.com/checkout.cfm?pid=1641&q=1&

Cheers
Bruce

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Seems a bit steep to charge $300 for the ability to see a presentation which is over 2 years old and may contain information that’s now outdated.
Is this something that Dries Driessen has worked up into a product that we can buy properly?

I wonder if the CIDC organisers would consider making past presentations available freely after a certain time period, say 2 years?
Surely after that time all costs would have been covered.

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Dont know if this is useful? Its a C++ example but I’m sure you can do it. :wink:
GitHub - ChrisGuzak/Win32XamlApp: Using Xaml in the Win32 app model using DesktopWindowXamlSource

Host a standard WinRT XAML control in a C++ desktop (Win32) app using XAML Islands - Windows apps | Microsoft Docs

Using the WinRT XAML hosting API in a C++ desktop (Win32) app - Windows apps | Microsoft Docs

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Looks a nightmare. The windows message queue needs resetting when you destroy the manager and then you cant create another one on that thread.

It all looks very messy.

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Which bit are you referring to?