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How to make modal dialog in WPF?
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Closed 6 years ago.
I'm developing an application and for the custom purposes of the app, I need a custom MessageBox.
I've created a new WPF Window and I'd like to force the user to interact with the custom message box before returning to the application, thus preventing them from using the application until a button inside the custom message box is pressed.
I've tried using .Focus() but it didn't work at all.
To give a perfect example of exactly what I want:
Try to press "Save As" in Outlook and then click on the "Mail" window again.
You instantly get "redirected" to the "Save As" Dialog and can't do anything on the main window until the dialog is closed.
Any ideas how to make this possible?
Basically, you want your new Window to be modal. The way to do it in WPF is to call the ShowDialog method rather than just Show
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I was wondering if there is a window property, for a wpf application, that disables any actions outside of the window. For example, when you open a message dialog and click outside of it, the message dialog background flashes. Kind of saying you can't do any actions outside of the message dialog untill you click the 'OK' button. I want that implemented in some windows that I open in a program i'm developing but can't seem to find any info on it. Looking for ways on how i might approach this.
Try ShowDialog() instead of Show()
Opens a window and returns only when the newly opened window is closed.
Window childWindow = new Window();
childWindow.ShowDialog();
Note that it will prevent clicks only on parent window(s). Clicks on other applications or Desktop can't be prevented by the Dialog.
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Can a form tell if there are any modal windows open?
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Closed 5 years ago.
Is there any way that we can detect if a child Dialog is opened ?
I tried googling there is not any good article
There should be a very simple solution to this.
Can anyone tell me how to do this ?
Is there any method or property in .Net Framework that I can call to get a boolean value somehow whether there is a Modal dialog is opened over my current window ?
so you want to check if the current Form owns any child modal Forms?
simply use the OwnedForms Property
this.OwnedForms.Any() //should return True if it owns any forms.
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How to make form system modal using C#?
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Closed 7 years ago.
Currently I have 2 forms open. However, I want one of both to be unresponsive while the other one is open.
It's not easy to describe, but I think all of you know that "plinging" sound when clicking on a main window while a prompt window of that form is open.
Is there a way to do this relatively quick?
I am pretty sure it would work with
Window.Enabled = false;
but I would prefer a way to perform it by setting an attribute only on the window I want the user to work on in that moment, instead of having to disable all others.
I could imagine something like
dialogwindow.Focus = true;
Is there a way to do this?
When you show your second window - you should show it with this method:
dialogWindow.ShowDialog();
I created a dialog box in a WPF Application that uses the Elysium SDK for metro-styling. I used the MessageBox utility class for displaying the dialog box but unlike the main window (and every other control there in) that are metro-styled by default, the dialog box came out as an ugly default windows dialog box which really looks out of place in the application. How can I get Elysium to style my dialog boxes too by default?
The Dialog box is just a wrapper around the OS dialog windows. If you want to control the look, then create your own window and show it modally.
If you need to get a result back from the dialog, set the dialogresult as shown here.
getting a dialogresult from a WPF window
I want to have an event in my application if any window appears. For example if i open the windows-explorer then my application should recognise this and can react.
Is this possible in c#?
I already got that i need to override the WndProc-Method. But now i need to know which message appears when a new window is created
The Window message you are looking for is is WM_ACTIVATEAPP. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632614(v=vs.85).aspx