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4 | | -title: "MarkPad: Day 3" |
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8 | | -> The first few days of the first project (MarkPad) were retroactively blogged about because we only decided to do that *after* the fact. |
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10 | | -While day two was "slow", day three was anything but. An icon, a UI overhaul, and so many features. |
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12 | | -###The Logo |
13 | | -One of the good and bad things about an adhoc, democratic app is that everybody has a say. This has led to some great UI or logic choices, but on the flipside has also had a few instances of where nobody could agree and executive decisions has to be made. For the icon, we had two shapes and many colours to pick from! |
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17 | | -###UI overhaul |
18 | | -It was voted that the anything resembling the "Fluent UI" (Ribbon) should be nuked from orbit, and instead we opted to go for a metro look. Thankfully, we all knew a guy who knew a guy who had a [WPF Metro Library](http://www.theleagueofpaul.com/metro). |
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22 | | -The design was inspired by (and permitted!) [ClindHartsen](https://twitter.com/#!/clindhartsen)'s "[Focus Text Editor](http://clindhartsen.deviantart.com/art/Focus-Text-Editor-176271501)" |
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| 2 | +layout: post |
| 3 | +permalink: /weekone-daythree.html |
| 4 | +title: "MarkPad: Day 3" |
| 5 | +feed: "project" |
| 6 | +comments: true |
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| 8 | + |
| 9 | +> The first few days of the first project (MarkPad) were retroactively blogged about because we only decided to do that *after* the fact. |
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| 11 | +While day two was "slow", day three was anything but. An icon, a UI overhaul, and so many features. |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +###The Logo |
| 14 | +One of the good and bad things about an adhoc, democratic app is that everybody has a say. This has led to some great UI or logic choices, but on the flipside has also had a few instances of where nobody could agree and executive decisions has to be made. For the icon, we had two shapes and many colours to pick from! |
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| 16 | + |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +###UI overhaul |
| 19 | +It was voted that the anything resembling the "Fluent UI" (Ribbon) should be nuked from orbit, and instead we opted to go for a metro look. Thankfully, we all knew a guy who knew a guy who had a [WPF Metro Library](http://www.theleagueofpaul.com/metro). |
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| 21 | + |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +The design was inspired by (and permitted!) [ClindHartsen](https://twitter.com/#!/clindhartsen)'s "[Focus Text Editor](http://clindhartsen.deviantart.com/art/Focus-Text-Editor-176271501)" |
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24 | 25 | We also introduced [Awesomium](http://awesomium.com/) as the preview control to make up for the lacking capabilities of the build in WPF WebBrowser (which is really just IE in an ActiveX/COM wrapper) |
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