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New Post: Does this work on a Mac?

ptrelford — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:10:21 GMT

I have not tested this project on Mac as I neither own a Mac or have access to one. If you find issues with Mac and are able to fix the source then feel free to contribute the fixes back to the project.

Thanks,
Phil

New Post: Does this work on a Mac?

ccbVT — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:13:22 GMT

I am using a new window as a modal window. It works as expected on Win7 -- main window is disabled, new window can be move separately from main window, etc.
When I ran the app on a Mac, the animation I use to display the new window was run (the main window's opacity is changed to make it appear disabled), but the child window did not appear, and the main window was not actually disabled.

If this package does not work on Mac, does anyone have an idea for what might?
Thanks --

New Post: Controlling modal window's background / opacity?

ptrelford — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:07:36 GMT

P/Invoke will only work on Windows in an Out-of-Browser (OOB) application with Elevated Trust. You can however detect the runtime environment before calling.

P.S. There is a known issue in WPF (and Silverlight) related to "the containing window appears as solid white as soon as ShowDialog() is called":

WPF Window with black background flashes white when first shown

One way to work around this is to load the content of the window before you show it.

New Post: Controlling modal window's background / opacity?

ccbVT — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:28:56 GMT

ptrelford wrote:

It is possible to set a window's background color and/or opacity using P/Invoke, see Silverlight 5 Native Windows P/Invoke for more details.

Very helpful, thanks.
My app has to run on the Mac, as well; will this technique work on the Mac?

New Post: How to make Modal Windows borderless?

ptrelford — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:12:18 GMT

3) How does the modal child window communicate with its parent (reporting a user's selection, for example)?

The child window's DataContex can be used to communicate values with the parent.

New Post: Controlling modal window's background / opacity?

ptrelford — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:00:22 GMT

It is possible to set a window's background color and/or opacity using P/Invoke, see Silverlight 5 Native Windows P/Invoke for more details.

New Post: Controlling modal window's background / opacity?

ccbVT — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:28:09 GMT

Is it possible to control a modal window's background color or opacity?
I can animate the content's appearance and disappearance, but the containing window appears as solid white as soon as ShowDialog() is called.

I suspect this is a limitation of the Window class...

New Post: How to make Modal Windows borderless?

ccbVT — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:31:16 GMT

Hello,
This looks very useful -- having a model window that is not constrained to the parent's border.
I get an 'OutOfRange' exception when trying to set the window style.
win = new Window();
win.Content = c;
win.WindowStyle = WindowStyle.BorderlessRoundCornersWindow;
Three questions:
1) How to change the style of the Window to borderless?
2) How would the content tell the modal parent to close itself?
3) How does the modal child window communicate with its parent (reporting a user's selection, for example)?

Thanks for any help with this....

New Post: Problem with Zoom and resized in in-browser mode

ptrelford — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:45:51 GMT

Thanks for reporting the issues.

1. The zoom issue is fixed in the latest source code. The Silverlight 4 ChildWindow implementation behaved differently in Silverlight 5. The fix has been applied to the UpdateRenderTransform method:

double factor =
     Application.Current.Host.Settings.EnableAutoZoom
     ? Application.Current.Host.Content.ZoomFactor
     : 1;
Point p10 = new Point(1 / factor, 0);
Point p01 = new Point(0, 1 / factor);

2. The resize should now work in-browser too.

New Post: Problem with Zoom and resized in in-browser mode

dekan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:48:35 GMT

Hi,

this solution is very nice.

But I found two problems:

1. When I opened sample project in in-browser mode with zoom , than Overlay size is bad transformed.

if (Application.Current.Host.Settings.EnableAutoZoom)
                {
                    double zoomFactor = Application.Current.Host.Content.ZoomFactor;
                    if (zoomFactor != 0)
                    {
                        this.Height /= zoomFactor;// ?? (this.Height *= zoomFactor;)
                        this.Width /= zoomFactor;// ?? (this.Width *= zoomFactor;)
                    }
                }

2. When I opened sample project in in-browser mode with size 1024*768 and resize ie window than overlay size don't changes.

Sorry, my english is very bad.