More Simon the Saga

in this latest chapter of simon I have been trying to get 'Simon' to run in a scatterview control on surface to be more 'Surfacy'? [Sir - fa - see]? (new word?) In any case the code from Silverlight Simon to Surface Simon had to have even more hacks... Finally had to convert all the game pads to buttons, hack out the control template and create new event handlers for all 4 buttons. but alas Surface Simon is not available for Download off of codeplex at: http://Simon.codeplex.com/

Also to get around the sound issue with WPF... which I must say the fact that the media element is so lame in WPF as opposed to Silverlight is very very sad. Anyway I changed the PlaySound method of Simon to look like this:


#if Silverlight
Uri MediaItem = new Uri(SoundFile, UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute);
SimonSounds.Source = MediaItem;
SimonSounds.AutoPlay = true;
SimonSounds.Play();
#else
MediaPlayer mplayer = new MediaPlayer();
mplayer.Open(new Uri(SoundFile, UriKind.Relative));
mplayer.Play();
#endif

you'll note the use of precompiler specifiers and that we are not using the Xaml based media element in the WPF/Surface versions any more...