Chapter 11. The app bar
This chapter covers
- The app bar and buttons
- Using the app bar for navigation
- Popups and menus
It may be hard to imagine applications without toolbars, but prior to the mid–Windows 3.1 timeframe, they were uncommon in GUIs. The original Apple Macintosh (and the Xerox technology it was based on) and clearly derivative GEOS, all with their single menu bar at the top, plus the Amiga Workbench and Windows 1.x with flat menus per window together established the menu navigation standard. None of them made real use of toolbars.
Eventually, applications got more complicated, and their menus became overly complex, making it difficult to find common tasks. With the rise in screen resolution, more screen real estate became ...
Get Windows Store App Development: C# and XAML now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
