Styling a Play/Pause button for Silverlight video

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You have created a video player, and you want to change a button make a standard Play/Pause button.  (Much like YouTube or iTunes).  If you are  a designer, you probably already know how, however, if you are like the rest of us developers this can be a little frustrating.  So, after taking a billion screenshots putting this post together, I thought it would be easier to do a screencast instead.  This is my first screencast, so bear with me.

Overview

Basically this tutorial shows you how to style a ToggleButton and how to update the Visual States of a control in Blend.  For reference, here are the basic steps needed to create the play/pause button:

  1. Open Expression Blend,
  2. Place a ToggleButton on the Artboard,
  3. Create a copy of the template,
  4. Remove all the unnecessary objects from the Objects and Timeline panel,
  5. Draw a Play head and Pause icons,
  6. and Update the opacity of the icons for the States.


5 comments so far

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  2. Mark Mazurik on

    Its “bear with me” and not “bare with me”. The latter is an invitation to undress…

  3. timheuer on
  4. cschuman on

    Thanks for the link Tim, the project looks great.

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