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Forge.Forms.AvaloniaUI 1.0.3

Forge.Forms.AvaloniaUI

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📖 About

With Forge.Forms you can create dynamic forms in WPF from classes or XML. Using this library is straightforward. DynamicForm is a control that will render controls bound to an associated model. A model can be an object, a type, a primitive, or a custom IFormDefinition.

Given the flexibility it provides especially in MVVM based applications, Sachith Liyanagama, is currently porting the project into the * Avalonia framework*.

To get started, check out the original guide for now. Avalonia-Specific guide will be documented later. or follow the installation instructions below.

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Cross Platform User Interface (Demo Project)

Data Types & Control Components

⚠️ Warning

Due to the original WPF-Based library ships with dependencies to UI toolkits such as Material Design, there can be certain bottlenecks. Please consider this project/repository to be experimental until a better and cleaner approach has been developed.

🚀 Avalonia PORTING Log

Due to the complex usage of deferred bindings in the original project, porting to avalonia is done incermentally. Similarly based on the functionality the components are classified as follows.

Control Components

First iteration of the controls are ported using basic Fluent Theme styling and later need to be ported to CONTROL THEMES.

Logical Components

Themes

Installation

Import Project Forge.Forms.AvaloniaUI

For default style sheet, add this to App.axaml

<StyleInclude Source="avares://Forge.Forms.AvaloniaUI/Themes/Base.axaml" />

DynamicForm control

If you want to use DynamicForm, import this namespace in XAML:

<xmlns:forms="clr-namespace:Forge.Forms.AvaloniaUI.Controls;assembly=Forge.Forms"/>

And use the control:

<forms:DynamicForm Model="{Binding Model}" />

Displaying Windows

If you only need to show windows and dialogs, use the Show helper:

using Forge.Forms;

await Show.Window().For(new Alert("Hello world!"));

Displaying Dialogs 🚧

using Forge.Forms;

await Show.Dialog().For<Login>(); 

Note: if you are using Show.Dialog() without specifying a dialog identifier, it expects you to have a DialogHost in your XAML tree.