I am currently working on a desktop C# WPF application where the goal is to make it look and feel like a "real" Windows Store App.
I want to add an appbar that should be shown when the user swipes up from the bottom. To do this in a normal app you just position your finger outside the screen area, and swipe up.
But if I do that in a fullscreen WPF program I don't receive any TouchDown or TouchMove events - probably because the finger is already down when entering the actual screen area.
I have tried with the Manipulation framework also, but same result here. Even when I hook directly into the message queue using WndProc or other hooks I get no events at all.
The funny thing is that I can see the "touch cursor" move around the screen, so at least something in the underlying framework is notified.
Does anyone have an idea how to do this?
p.s. It is not an option for me just to use a windows store app instead, because of hardware connectivity issues ;-)
You will need to keep track of the cursor location coordinates, and see when the cursor (swipe) starts at the edge of the screen and moves in. When that triggers (with whatever trigger you want, distance covered most likely) you can fire up your Appbar.
There was a similar question asked on MSDN:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/d85dcde7-839a-44d3-9f2a-8b47b947576c/swipe-gesture-and-page-change?forum=wpf
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I need to write a text recognition (from image) application. The main idea is that while my application is running, I may have the need to transform some text of an image into manageble text. So, in this case with the mouse I need to draw a square around the area that i need to capture and the software must convert the content of the extracted picture into text.
I solved the problem of image recognition. I also find a very easy way to capture from screen.
What I need to do now is be able to select with the mouse the interesting area that is over an other running opplication (for example over a webpage or over an image opened in Paint). That must be like the screencapture on windows7, you create a selection of the screen and this is saved like a picture.
By looking around, I didn't find anything and I don't knwo where to start.
Many thanks
You can achieve that using either a 'tricky' easy way or a real but difficult approach.
The tricky way
Screen Recorder applications usually use this approach:
Whenever user wants to select an area, you display a full screen border less Window with 0% opacity, then user attempts to select the screen area, and he is actually selecting your Window area, so you can receive mouse events and display/draw a rectangular shape to show the selection area to the user.
In this approach, the program needs to know when to display the Window and when to hide it. This can be done by for example defining Hotkeys for capturing:
Program registers a hot key using RegisterHotKey to Windows.
User presses and holds that hot key
Program displays the tricky Window
User selects the interested area, program receives that area using mouse events of the tricky Window
User released the hot key and program hides the Tricky window.
The real way
Using this way, you need to set a message hook in order to receive mouse and keyboard events while user is interacting with desktop not your program. This is not an easy to accomplish approach and I recommend you the first one.
Is it possible to hide the mouse cursor in a Windows 8.1 Store App and move the mouse back to the screen center while moving?
something like this (SDL code):
SDL_ShowCursor(false);
...
SDL_WarpMouse(screen.width/2,screen.height/2);
Moving mouse pointer automatically to center is not possible in Windows app. It is avoid fooling/cheating (not the right word, but still close enough) users in app. For example, if a developer is allowed to do so then just before the click of the mouse button developer can always hide the mouse pointer from that place and move it to desired position and get ads clicked, even though user didn't wanted to do so!
This also goes well with Windows 8/8.1 app design principles, that apps can use limited resources of the system.
I need to create a application which is similar to those we will get when we buy a laptop. It will be visible only when the mouse pointer reaches the top of the window. So how can I able to do this using C# 4.0 ?
http://www.notebookcheck.net/uploads/pics/win2_12.jpg
this link u can see the application. I need to create such type
Any idea pls share. Thanks
I suppose there are several different ways to achieve this effect:
You can place part of the window of your application above the visible screen, so only a part of it is visible (let's say you can see only it's bottom). Then you need to handle events when mouse enters (MouseEnter) and leaves (MouseLeave) the form to move the form up and down.
You can use a background thread to call GetCursorPos method at a set interval (i.e. each 500ms) second to check where currently the mouse is. See this link for more information about it and a sample code: http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32.getcursorpos.
(If you need only to check the mouse position, you can use a timer to simplify you application.)
When you hit what's possible with C#, you can always start invoking native code - such as the windows API. Since you don't ask a specific question, I'll leave you with:
Position your app where you want it to appear and hide it.
Capture mouse position with windows api (see this SO answer)
When mouse is at screen corner / top, etc; make your app visible.
Now make sure all this works with dual screen setup, and you are done.
I have a Silverlight control containing an image. I want the user to be able to drag the image out of the Silverlight application and drop it anywhere they would be able to drop an image. For example, to the Desktop or to a PowerPoint slide or Word document. Everything that I have read thus far says it cannot be done but I find that hard to believe. I'm very new to Silverlight and RIA development so any help would be much appreciated.
Below is the code sample in my WinForm Form but the drag never starts.
string[] aString = { imagePath };
DataObject data = new DataObject(DataFormats.FileDrop, aString);
data.SetData(DataFormats.StringFormat, imagePath);
DoDragDrop(data, DragDropEffects.Copy);
Well the trouble is that a drag operation in Silverlight doesn't have simple access to anything outside the browser (by design). Depending on the user's settings you even have to get explicit permission for clipboard operations and sandboxed temporary file storage. This really sounds like a task better suited to a WPF application (perhaps with web deployment?) or some other desktop application technology.
However, that being said here are some things you could try/consider:
Silverlight/Javascript/ActiveX combination hosted in Internet Explorer
Silverlight 5 "Out of Brower" & P/Invoke (I heard P/Invoke will be supported when Silverlight 5 comes out)
Silverlight connecting to a web service running on the same computer (crazy, but you didn't ask for "not crazy", you asked for possible)
I am not very familiar with drag and drop in the Win32 API so it would take a lot of research and experimentation before I could confirm that this was even possible (and I can already tell you it isn't practical).
Edit: Based on the extra information you provided about the question I suspect it is possible to do what you are attempting. First, are you using WPF or WinForms? I assume WPF but one of your comments says WinForms. I wasn't very familiar with WPF drag/drop operations, but having looked into it, I think your code is on the right path. I created a WPF application and initiated a drag during a KeyDown event. This meant that the mouse button was not necessarily pressed. If I initiated the DragDrop while the button was down it worked. If I initiated while the mouse button wasn't down, I had to push the mouse button down and the drag operation would start (this was unexpected since I assumed the mouse would have to already be down). If I pressed the mouse down outside the application, then gave the WPF app focus (ALT+Tab), then initiated the DragDrop while the mouse button was still down, it didn't work. I got a reference to the MouseDevice and checked the LeftButton property, and the state was showing as "Released" even though the button was still being held down. It seems the key here is the way drag/drop interacts with internal mouse state. You might have to find a way to set the mouse state (maybe with the UI Automation API?). At this point it should be painfully obvious that this whole thing is a hack (even though it is probably possible to get it to work somehow).
The solution we came up with was as follows. The RIA i.e. Silverlight sends a message to our Desktop application WinForms with the path of the image to drag along with the bounding rectangle in screen coordinates that we want to start the drag from. The Desktop code creates and places a Panel over the area that we want to drag from. This panel is where we use DoDragDrop to initiate the native drag when the user left clicks. Since this panel is placed outside and above the silverlight control, everything works perfect. Sandbox defeated.
I have been working on some Silverlight apps for the past few months and fully investigated your exact requirements only to find it was not possible. I believe you can drag from the file system, from Silverlight control to control, but not to the file system.
Does Silverlight 4 support drag and drop from app to desktop?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772166%28v=vs.95%29.aspx
I have a fullscreen application running on Windows CE 6.0 which will only be manipulated using the finger or a stylus.
So I don't need the mouse cursor, which I'm hiding using Cursor.Hide().
However, when I use the stylus to manipulate something on the screen, the mouse cursor is printed while the stylus touch the screen.
Is there a way to make the cursor not show when touching the screen?
BTW: the application will be the only thing running, so system-wide solution are possible, but I'd rather keep it inside the application.
For a system-wide solution, in case you can create the OS, you can remove the mouse cursor component from the catalog (SYSGEN_CURSOR).
For a local solution here is a suggestion (never tried it):
You can replace the icon with a blank icon so you won't see any cursor while inside your form. Once you leave the borders of your form you can restore the usual icon.
Read How to use custom cursors. I checked that the Cursor class is available with the CF. There are two other functions needed to be P/Invoked that are available under CE:
GetIconInfo
CreateIconIndirect