WPF : Tube Planner Using A Guided Search
I recently came back from holiday and decided I needed to ease myself back into work gradually.
For those that don’t know I studied AI as part of my degree and we had to do a search of a cut down version of the London underground for one of our many assignments. At the time I thought my text only search was the mutts nuts, but now we have WPF so I thought why not give it another go.
I have to say I am most pleased with the result.
It is over at www.codeproject.com if you fancy a look. Here is a link
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/TubePlanner.aspx
And here is what it does:
- Panning
- Zooming
- Station connection tooltips
- Hiding unwanted lines (to de-clutter the diagram)
- Information bubble
- Diagramatic solution path visualization
- Textual solution path description
Here is what it looks like:
As always if you fancy leaving a comment or a vote that would be cool, thanks.
Daniel Vaughan said
am November 12 2009 @ 9:16 am
Great stuff Sacha. Interesting problem domain, and slick interface. Well done.
Cheers,
Daniel
sacha said
am November 12 2009 @ 10:26 am
Thanks mate. Messing around with some Win7 stuff last night, cant help but feel MSFT missed a trick or too there with certains things like JumpList
John Collins said
am December 2 2009 @ 5:18 pm
Have you ever considered doing a Code Project article for the new ESRI Silverlight/WPF Map control? There are a lot of examples for silverlight, but none for WPF (that I can find) and nothing utilizing the MVVM Framework.
I know you have done some mapping stuff in the past as was just curious if you had looked into the new ESRI stuff. I think it would be increadibly useful to the community if someone as smart as you could put out a real world example of the WPF portion. It doesn’t get a lot of play in the blogs/code examples.
Just curious if you had considered it.
Thanks for you time.
sacha said
am December 2 2009 @ 8:44 pm
John
Was actually blissfully unaware of that. Looks cool, looks highly geared towards Sl, which is not my bag, I prefer desktop stuff, very cool though. I am mid project though, so don’t know if I’ll find time for that.
Thanks for the heads up though
John Collins said
am December 7 2009 @ 3:30 pm
Yeah, alot of the examples are SL, but there are 2 distinct download packs. 1 for SL and 1 for WPF. Just hoping someone could shine a little light on the WPF side of things as the syntax between the 2 is a little different.
I know you are busy, just curious. Thanks for the quick reply though!
sacha said
am December 7 2009 @ 5:15 pm
No problem