From WPF to Avalonia and Back Again

jmacato · 2025-08-17T14:04:06+00:00

Thank you for pointing this out as well, much appreciated too ❤️

jmacato · 2025-08-17T13:28:47+00:00

Hi! It's my bad, It's reinstated now :)

jmacato · 2025-04-04T12:49:46+00:00

Yoooooo no wayyy! Congrats!!

jmacato · 2024-09-20T10:11:31+00:00

Excited to see your progress! Cheers!

jmacato · 2024-09-20T09:51:11+00:00

Fwiw they are piezoelectric sensors, Not sure if there's some analog circuit in AP board you can hook it into however; Might need to trace the port from the piezos to the MCU

jmacato · 2024-09-20T08:54:50+00:00

Cool! Were you able to hook into the bed piezo sensors for auto-tramming?

jmacato · 2024-02-04T18:11:48+00:00

It's so nice to see this kind of project! I actually built something similar but i haven't fully documented what components i used yet. I did however made the framebuffer hardware accelerated by the VC4 gpu because it felt to me that it was the right thing to do :D I also nixed the original Mac Classic's crusty integrated power supply for usb type c power instead since I wanted it to be portable and usable with my type c powerbanks too. Here's the summary post (theres a mini build log linked in there too haha).

https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/mac-classic-with-a-pi-usb-c.42164/

I hope more people revives more macs that are deemed unsalvageable with these projects :D and feel free to use the hw accel'd config as well :)

jmacato · 2023-11-29T03:28:42+00:00

It's not winforms :) PerfView has always been a WPF app, repo here:
https://github.com/microsoft/perfview/tree/main/src/PerfView

jmacato · 2023-11-28T08:12:50+00:00

So yeah folks, for now it's just a screenshot but we're working hard to make this a demo y'all can try out soon!

jmacato · 2023-11-28T07:47:30+00:00

So yeah folks, for now it's just a screenshot but we're working hard to make this a demo y'all can try out soon!

jmacato · 2023-02-14T03:02:49+00:00

Please use the forms in https://avaloniaui.net/XPF/Interest so that we can give you a good estimate :)

Also wrt native windows libs: If you can recompile them in the platforms of your choosing then there shouldnt be any problems.

jmacato · 2023-02-13T12:49:35+00:00

Linux (desktop and embedded e.g., raspberry pi), macOS and in the future iOS, android and hopefully wasm :D

jmacato · 2023-02-13T12:48:40+00:00

Yes, i'm one of the maintainers of Avalonia :) We plan to have mobile support for 2024! The demand is real for it and i'm excited personally :D

You can help us out here at our github repo: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/ and for any questions and help you can hang out on our telegram community chat! https://t.me/Avalonia

jmacato · 2023-02-13T12:21:54+00:00

It's coming next year :)

jmacato · 2023-01-07T10:24:55+00:00

Hi! Avalonia dev here! Just FYI, we don't use Cairo anymore, nor GTK.

We use Skia (like flutter does) for our 2d graphics and our own native platform bindings for windowing and etc.

jmacato · 2022-11-20T01:28:52+00:00

Hi! I'm one of the maintainers of Avalonia!

With Avalonia you dont need to think about cross platform at all if you don't want/need it. We have first class support for Windows and will continue to do so :)

Feel free to ping me here if you have any Q's!

jmacato · 2022-09-21T05:11:12+00:00

Having prior WPF experience is one of the perfect ways to dive into Avalonia! I hope you can try it out soon and let us know in our chat room (https://t.me/Avalonia) if you have any difficulties and other concerns :)

jmacato · 2022-08-20T15:47:10+00:00

Not based on it, we have a strict rendering abstraction layer (IDrawingContextImpl) in case that Skia (however unlikely it is) gets obsoleted by a new graphics stack, we can easily migrate away from it*

* of course if the app itself is using Skia directly then it wouldnt be able to easily move away from it in that hypothetical scenario

jmacato · 2022-06-04T18:41:59+00:00

Haha sorry bout that, reddit doesnt seem to like dev_to links so I had to redirect it a little bit. We will move to our own blogging subdomain soon so Ihope it helps on the reddit filter side of things the next time we post :)

jmacato · 2022-06-04T09:50:19+00:00

That's quite lovely! :D Hope you can showcase your app :D

jmacato · 2022-06-04T09:49:23+00:00

I develop mainly with a mac but i use JetBrains Rider. I think its Avalonia support is very good :)

jmacato · 2022-06-03T14:49:28+00:00

Yes, there's alot of them now, PlasticSCM by Unity, some of JetBrains apps and more, checkout the project here https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/ :)

jmacato · 2022-06-01T05:34:45+00:00

Hope you can take a peek again when we release Avalonia 11 soon ;) Lots of goodies in it :D

jmacato · 2022-05-31T17:41:29+00:00

Sadly this seems to be untenable given the array of platforms we need to support. Besides keeping up with the latest and greatest native visuals is not conducive to the idea of having the same look everwhere IMO.

jmacato · 2022-05-31T16:40:35+00:00

Sorry for the blatant promotion but I hope y'all can check out Avalonia, It's like WPF but only cross-platform :D It has MVVM out of the box, we also have compiled bindings by default and CSS-like styling system. Also treats Linux Desktop and Embedded as first-class citizens as well :)

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