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Enhanced Taskbar
With the new taskbar in Windows 7, applications can provide more information to the user in more intuitive ways. For example, applications can show progress bars in their taskbar buttons so that users can stay aware of progress without having to keep the window visible. This is useful for tracking time consuming operations such as file copying, downloads, installations, or media burning. Icon overlays can be displayed on the lower-right area of the application’s taskbar button, and are used to convey status or notifications (such as new mail). New thumbnail APIs enable an application to define child windows and corresponding thumbnail images for those windows. The thumbnail toolbar provides a place to control common actions without requiring window restoration, such as Play/Stop for media.
Gadgets Platform
Gadgets are a popular feature of the Windows Vista desktop, and in Windows 7, it’s even easier for applications to install gadgets. In Windows 7, an application can programmatically add a gadget to the Windows Desktop during application setup or first run. This means that an application’s out-of-the-box experience can include a simple checkbox, for example, to install a companion gadget that is available on the desktop as soon as the application is ready to be used.
In Windows 7, it’s even easier for applications to install gadgets
Scenic Ribbon
Windows 7 features the Ribbon interface from Office 2007 throughout the operating system, enabling improved user interface development on the platform. This means that developers can eliminate much of the drudgery of Win32 UI development and deliver a rich, graphical, animated, and highly familiar user interface by using markup based UI and a small, high-performance, native code runtime.
The Scenic Ribbon control helps developers improve usability by exposing your application's most frequently accessed features directly to end users. The Ribbon makes it easier for end users to find and use application features because less functionality is hidden, leading to increased productivity. The Scenic Ribbon is designed as an intent-based alternative to the command presentation model of menus, toolbars, task panes, and dialog boxes in standard Windows applications.
The Scenic Ribbon controls consist of a set of Microsoft Win32 APIs that override the top-level menu bar functionality and render a ribbon-style command UI instead. It is similar in functionality and appearance to the Ribbon in Office 2007. The UI is composed of a number of sub-controls that include the following:
Application button (or pearl)
Quick-access toolbar
Ribbon control of contextual tabs
Mini-toolbars
Style galleries
Templates and markup authoring are available to developers for rapid development and integration of Ribbon functionality.
The Scenic Ribbon control helps developers improve usability by exposing your application's most frequently accessed features
Animation
Smooth animations are fundamental to many graphical UI applications, and Windows 7 introduces a native animation framework for managing the scheduling and execution of animations. The animation framework supplies a library of useful mathematical functions for specifying behavior over time and also lets developers provide their own behavior functions. The framework supports sophisticated resolution of conflicts when multiple animations attempt to manipulate the same value simultaneously. An application can specify that one animation must be completed before another can begin and can force completion within a set time. The new framework also helps animations determine appropriate durations.
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