VICTORY OVER PIVOT AND PANAROMA

Victory over pivot and panaroma was exciting. What victory you ask? It is a victory over the limitations of tabs and in design. We happen to have an exercises section in our app where users, a child in this case, can take a test on what they've just learnt. However, what happens when the test you are preparing has ten questions and panaroma only offers up to a certain number of tabs. Pivot also limited us in terms of design.
As you can see, this appeared to be quite a fix for us, but only for a short time as i soon discovered a way around this. For starters, no pivot or panaroma pages, just a single page whose content changes dynamically basing on a control selected, in this case, the 'next' button in the page.
 Using a counter variable that is incremented each time the next button is tapped, the Click method of the button checks the value of the counter and sets the new content in the page accordingly. I must admit, the process was quite tedious due to the repetition, the code may not look pretty,but, it works. One small step for windows phone development, but a giant leap for Tootoz class.

CUSTOMIZING A MESSAGE BOX

Anyone that has worked on an app for windows phones can testify to the woes of the message box. Simply put, its quite rigid in terms of design. Developing an app for a child means you have to think like a child, so when i'm in child thinking mode, i can see that a black and white message box just isn't going to be optically appealing. Soon after learning that it just doesn't get better than that, i embarked on a journey to find alternatives and alternatives i found. Or should i say alternative!
 It comes down to making your own custom message box. I won't bore with the details but here are a few helpful links you can check out and learn more.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/42477/Custom-MessageBox-Control-for-Silverlight 

SUPERVISION REPORT (WEEK TWO)

Last week,our supervisor- Mr Paddy Asiimwe looked through our project, he was impressed with what we had achieved so far. He noted that he wanted to take on our application for the final year project by recommending us to the overall supervisor- Mr Grace. We are excited that whatever we had envisioned is coming to light slowly by slowly.

SUPERVISION REPORT

We met as a group to see our supervisor - MR ASIIMWE PADDY , so far we have received positive reviews concerning our progress. We are currently working on the design specification document and completing the final version of our application.

WELCOME TO TOOTOZ CLASS APP DEVELOPMENT

We shall be taking you through a step by step progress of how we shall be developing and implementing our windows phone 8 application. Stay updated...