Images as Buttons

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Hi to all,
I've seen an application running on Touch Screens (big, for Desktops,
not for Mobile, but this is not the point), where many navigations was
done with (mid / large) Images (as buttons), so I was wondering it
this is possible with Pivot ... I know that we have Buttons with
Images, but in this case I don't have the rest of the button
appearance (no borders, gradients etc, only the image) and maybe some
effects applied (like a shadow decorator) ... and in some cases on
hover effect but I can live without this, the important is at least to
have the mouse cursor to change over this like in a button.

This is doable with current components (maybe adding some style
enhancements to disable some parts), or you think it's better to
implement it as a new component ?


Then a generalization of this could be a component like Image Map of
HTML but that's another story ...


Bye,
Sandro

Re: Images as Buttons

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Hi Greg,
Ok, I'll try as you said.

Thanks,
Sandro

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Re: Images as Buttons

[Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com>]

You could use LinkButton for this. If that isn't sufficient, you can pretty easily create a custom button component that does what you need.

On Sep 3, 2010, at 8:48 PM, Sandro Martini wrote:

> Hi to all,
> I've seen an application running on Touch Screens (big, for Desktops,
> not for Mobile, but this is not the point), where many navigations was
> done with (mid / large) Images (as buttons), so I was wondering it
> this is possible with Pivot ... I know that we have Buttons with
> Images, but in this case I don't have the rest of the button
> appearance (no borders, gradients etc, only the image) and maybe some
> effects applied (like a shadow decorator) ... and in some cases on
> hover effect but I can live without this, the important is at least to
> have the mouse cursor to change over this like in a button.
> 
> This is doable with current components (maybe adding some style
> enhancements to disable some parts), or you think it's better to
> implement it as a new component ?
> 
> 
> Then a generalization of this could be a component like Image Map of
> HTML but that's another story ...
> 
> 
> Bye,
> Sandro