SampleSort ... it lives!

[James Green]

> .NET 3.5/WPF is the wholesale replacement for Windows Forms ...
> 
> As soon as more music software companies get their heads around just
> what is possible with WPF I think you'll start to see some seriously
> interesting UI's appearing.  What used to take entire classes 
> to achive
> with WinForms can be reduced to a single command/paramter in a XAML
> declaration.
> 
> = richer UI with less management code leaving more CPU for the real
> tasks at hand.

Another point worth making about WPF (which I've used for the SS UI) is
that finally Microsoft have done the decent thing and implemented a UI
system where all UI/graphics/rendering handling is left to the graphics
card.  Unlike WinForms that required the CPU to handle all the UI, WPF
offloads all the graphics jobs to the graphics processor natively.

Another benefit for music apps (or any CPU intensive software) imo ...

Its just a shame that the Mono chaps aren't looking at implementing WPF
(I'm sure that will change in time) meaning that in order to do a MAC
version I'm going to have to completely rethink the UI.

Jammer