Xamla has recently been accepted into the silverlight.net Community Gallery. You can check it out here: http://www.silverlight.net/community/samples/silverlight-samples/xamla/
myOSity’s file system has received an important upgrade. Now when you click “Open” on any file in the File Browser, myOSity will attempt to load an application that supports the selected file’s MIME type (.jpg, .png, etc).
I’ve upgraded Xamla and the myOSity Image Viewer applications to take advantage of this new feature.
So here I am in the File Browser, about ready to open a Xamla file that I’ve previously uploaded to the myOSity file system from my computer…
I click “Open” on the file “myosity_mockup2.xaml" and… voila! Xamla opens and the project file I selected is automatically loaded.
In order to check out this new feature, you’ll need to create an account (guest accounts don’t have file system access).
What’s next for the File System?
Next up is integrated load and save directly to the file system from other applications. Right now you can only upload files to the file system from your local computer, but that will soon change…
I've had this one on my "gee I really want to do this" list for some time now. I'll admit that sometimes developing myOSity can be less than exciting, and that's why I save little things like this for when I need a mental break from the more mundane aspects of developing a project this massive. Are application preview thumbnails really that important? Not really, but it was fun to make it happen!
They don't update in real-time like Windows Vista, but it does provide an update each time your mouse over the application button in the Home Bar.
Enjoy!
(Xamla running in myOSity with an At-A-Glance Application Preview enabled on the Home Bar)
P.S. My wife came up with a killer logo idea for myOSity. I'm really looking forward to how the final version turns out! More to follow on this soon...
Last night I created an open source project on Codeplex (http://xamla.codeplex.com) for Xamla. Xamla will be a lightweight artboard that will allow users to create their own visual designs. Aside from being a standalone application in myOSity, Xamla will also become the engine for myOSity's profile page designer component (coming soon!). For those who are interested in the more technical aspects of Xamla, or wish to participate as a contributing developer, Codeplex will will be the place to do it.
An VERY early version of Xamla is available on myOSity (http://www.myosity.com). Or, for your convenience, below is a running version. You're not going to get much screen real-estate with the one below, but at least you'll get a sense for what it's about.
(This is not a screenshot below, try it!)