Maybe some folks remember the CoverFlow GTK# widget I talked about a while ago. I had left it in an undetermined state but today I managed to clean it and make it the work the way I intended.

For the little background, I want to use that widget as part of a presentation I will make at school, in two weeks, on creating C# softwares on Linux with Mono. During the presentation, I will make attendees do a simple app which ask, via a GTK# GUI, some informations about an artist, do a query on musicbrainz, parse the reply and, finally, display the cover art of the artist’s albums. That’s why I thought coding a CoverFlow widget would provide a more aesthetic look than a bare Image widget (and, at a same time, allow me to practice graphic programming ).

Anyway, for the technical side the code doesn’t do too fancy things. For a start it’s not even accelerated or OpenGL-enabled (would be fun to do a Clutter port), it’s just good-old-gdk and System.Drawing operations on bitmaps with a DrawingArea. There is no animation too, it would probably flicker too much and eat CPU which isn’t the purpose. Finally I used the traditional way of manipulating pixel, no pointer black magic in the code.

I will post the code somewhere tomorrow or later but, in the meantime, here is a screenshot showing Nightwish (\o/) discography :