Some people wondered why we didnt use WPF for our skinengine.
WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation) , is a new technology from Microsoft for creating really cool GUIs
Although WPF is a wonderfull piece of technology, it also has some major drawbacks. One of those drawbacks is that there is no way to integrate WPF with DirectX and/or DirectShow. Although WPF contains its own internal video player that player is so limited and unusable for an application like MediaPortal. Some other drawbacks are the focus/input management and offcourse the fact that its closed source
That said, WPF still rocks. Skinners get really nice features like vector graphics, linear radial gradient brushes, image brushes, panels, storyboards, triggers, animations etc etc etc
So I…
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