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user1428798
user1428798

Reputation: 1546

Using Tiles templates windows8

I'm trying to use tiles templates(a tile which shows an image and switches to show text)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh761491.aspx#TileSquarePeekImageAndText04

The question is: where do I put this XML and how can I call it in XAML?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 903

Answers (1)

Jim O'Neil
Jim O'Neil

Reputation: 23784

You don't call it in XAML, you provide it to a TileUpdater instance, as you can see from the documentation for TileUpdateManager below. This simplistic scenario handles a local notification (but there are also scheduled, periodic, and push notifications you can leverage).

Take a look at the App tiles and badges and Push and periodic notifications samples for guidance.

function sendTileTextNotification() {
    var Notifications = Windows.UI.Notifications;

    // Get an XML DOM version of a specific template by using getTemplateContent.
    var tileXml = Notifications.TileUpdateManager.getTemplateContent(Notifications.TileTemplateType.tileWideText03);

    // You will need to look at the template documentation to know how many text fields a particular template has.
    // Get the text attribute for this template and fill it in.
    var tileAttributes = tileXml.getElementsByTagName("text");
    tileAttributes[0].appendChild(tileXml.createTextNode("Hello World!"));

    // Create the notification from the XML.
    var tileNotification = new Notifications.TileNotification(tileXml);

    // Send the notification to the calling app's tile.
    Notifications.TileUpdateManager.createTileUpdaterForApplication().update(tileNotification);
}

Upvotes: 1

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