Improve and unify the User Interface

[StudioLE]

At present we're calling standard windows dialog boxes but these are stylistically dissimilar to the UI used throughout Dynamo, Project Refinery, Revit, and Dynamo Player.

Rather than using MessageBox we should call our own UI class that outputs dialog boxes using context specific interface elements. Hopefully this will be as simple as calling whichever UI methods Dynamo or Revit use but it might not be this simple.

Binoculars Current UI

Standard Dynamo UI

Standard Revit UI

Standard Dynamo Player UI

Standard Project Refinery UI

[To be added later]

[StudioLE]

Continuing an earlier conversation:

Binoculars/BinocularsViewExtension.cs

Line 48 in e0cf00e

// @todo Use a view framework to improve the UI/UX

@radumg: or don't :) the current box does the trick nicely and has no overhead - unless the interaction needs to be more complex, with checkboxes, etc, i wouldn't add anything just for a message box.

To highlight the privacy implications of the data being collected and why this data is useful for diagnostic and business insight we're going to need a lot more space the current dialog box.

Autodesk already provide a good example (see below) of how to do this and we should looks to provide our own version which I don't believe will be possible with the default MessageBox.

[brencass]

@StudioLE @WaynePatrickDalton

Have a look at the about window in the following branch i have created in my fork it will create the about window as per the below image within dynamo.

Github Branch: https://github.com/brencass/Binoculars/tree/About-WIndow
Main class modification for loading about window: brencass@d0f4d08#diff-fba541edf4f828f1ffc326db0a23e870

[StudioLE]

Thanks for this Brendan, it looks much simpler than I anticipated.

Comparison (for future reference): master...brencass:About-WIndow

[brencass]

@StudioLE No worries, though it is probably one of the more simple examples of WPF windows.