i am working on Silverlight 5,
Application has functionality like save data in user's local pc as CSV. while developing functionality it's working perfect at our local PC. when we click on "Export" Button save file dialog box appear and save at selected location. but after deployed on our server save file dialog box will not appear on screen.
dialog = new SaveFileDialog();
dialog.DefaultFileName = "Exported Data";
dialog.Filter = string.Format("File Type (*{0}) | *{0}", (".csv"));
dialog.DefaultExt = string.Format("{0}", ("csv"));
//Show the dialog
bool? dialogResult = dialog.ShowDialog();
Make sure you call ShowDialog() method right after "Export" button click event, this is Silverlight security feature.
See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/library/system.windows.controls.savefiledialog(v=vs.95).aspx
You show a save dialog control using the ShowDialog method. For security purposes Silverlight file and print dialogs must be user-initiated. This means you must show them from a user-initiated action such as the click event handler for a button. In addition, there is a limit on the time allowed between when the user initiates the dialog and when the dialog is shown. If the time limit between these actions is exceeded, an exception will occur.
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I'm creating a WPF application and I have 3 Windows (MainWindow, Window2 and Window3). When I start the project Window2 loads right after my MainWindow is loaded. And when I click a Button, Window3 opens
Window3 w3 = new Window3(this, this.window2);
w3.ShowDialog();
but I'm not able to do things (click controls etc.) in Window2, I know that ShowDialog() method is disabling other open Windows but is there a possibility to access using those controls in Window2. How could I get access to Window2's functionalities when Window3 is open?
PS.(Sorry for asking a stupid question but I'm beginner in WPF)!
You can access System.Windows.Application static class's Windows collection to have list of all currently opened windows. Then you can iterate the collection and find your window by type or some other criteria. One way would be:
var window3 = Application.Current.Windows.OfType<Window3>().FirstOrDefault();
Edit:
In comments to the question you stated that you were opening window using w3.Show() method. That opens window in non modal way. While after editing the question w3.ShowDialog() opens the window in modal way.
You can learn more about modal windows at MSDN
A modal dialog box is displayed by a function when the function needs additional data from a user to continue. Because the function depends on the modal dialog box to gather data, the modal dialog box also prevents a user from activating other windows in the application while it remains open.
So to be able to switch focus between windows they should be non modal and opened using Show method instead of ShowDialog.
I am working on a WPF desktop application, which has screen-lock feature that shows the log-in dialog after application is inactive for some time. Everything works great until user walks away from the computer and there's modal dialog (other than the log-in dialog) opened in the app.
Quick summary of the scenario:
User deletes something in the application.
Delete confirmation (modal) dialog opens, with "Delete" and "Cancel" options.
User walks away for a bit, while the modal dialog is up.
After some time, the confirmation dialog will be hidden and the log-in dialog opens.
Here's a bit of the codes
var deleteConfirmationDialog = new deleteConfirmationDialog(deleteConfirmationViewModel);
var dialogResult = deleteConfirmationDialog.ShowDialog();
if (dialogResult ?? false) { //Delete item }
The issue is when the deleteConfirmationDialog is hidden, and the log-in (modal) dialog is opened, then the dialogResult from the deleteConfirmationDialog will return with dialogresult == false.
Technical implementation and philosophy aside, why does ShowDialog() returns with a DialogResult == false, even though I did not close that dialog? Is there away to prevent deleteConfirmationDialog from returning False?
Thank you very much in advance! Please let me know, if any part of this doesn't make sense.
I have a form that has a WebBrowser control. Onload, it navigates to some URL.
On DocumentCompleted event handler, after getting the needed data the form is closed. This works most of the time, but sometime it pops up an IE window w/ the same URL after the form has already closed.
I noticed that in DebugView, it logs m_useSurfacePresenter 1. When this gets logged before the Close() is called, there is no popup. But when this gets logged after the Close() is called, then the popup appears.
You need to check the JavaScript .onunload event in that document, if it is set to open a new window (browser) when that page is unloading, then it will be triggered when you close your winform which is hosting the webbrowser control, and in turn, the page.
So, when you close the winform, the page's onUnload event in the webbrowser control will also be triggered as a result due to the way the events are chained in a Document/Page --> WB Control --> WinForms Form setup.
You can actually set this to nothing, by running a particular JS command directed to the page in the WB control, you can set the .OnUnload event to "function () {};", which will ensure whatever it is set to will be turned into Nothing/Null. Here is a code example:
window.onunload = function () { };
Let me know how it goes, and I will help you out if that doesn't fix it. Notice the above is JS, and there are ways to execute JS directly from teh WB Control, many examples on the web, there are actually 2 ways, one using .execScript and another one using the newer method, which is .InvokeScript.
I have a user control that has a Grid as a main container. This control needs to display a modal dialog. However, when I show the dialog (implements ChildWindow) from the control, nothing happens, no errors and no dialog.
MyDialog dialog = new MyDialog();
dialog.Show();
If ChildWindow is something that can only be displayed from the main page and not user control, what's my alternative?
Solved the problem by creating a user control and putting it in the same grid location as the original control with Visibility:Collapsed. Every time I'd need a modal dialog, I'd disable the user control that is visible and set Visibility:Visible on the modal dialog user control.
This blog post helped a great deal: Silverlight Tutorial Part 6: Using User Controls to Implement Master/Detail Scenarios
New Thought, Maybe I am looking at this totally incorrectly. So Here is exactly what I am trying to do in case there is another option I am not aware of.
I have a WPF app, the main window shows a smaller dialog window using ShowDialog(), when a user clicks on the parent window that showed the dialog, I need to make the dialog window, flash, shake or blink.
AresAvatar posted a link that looks like it might be able to use, but is there another option I am not aware of?
My original Question.
Mouse click event when Modal window's parent is clicked in WPF app?
I have a wpf app that shows a modal window using ShowDialog().
I would like to fire an event when the user tries to click the parent window that is now disabled.
Is it possible on the parent to receive a click event when it has shown a modal window?
When I attempted this using an interaction trigger, the events never fired on parent window.
Otherwise, what suggestions / options are there.
Thanks
No WPF events are sent under these conditions. The only Windows message I can see that gets sent is WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGING. You could check for that message, and check if the window was disabled when it occurred. Here's a good article on checking WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGING.
Edit: that link seems to be dead. Here's an example on StackOverflow of checking window messages.
I know this is an old question but I'll post my solution in case any one needs it.
Set the dialog.owner prior to calling ShowDialog().
var dialog = new DialogWindow();
dialog.owner = MainWindow;
dialog.ShowDialog();
The result is that clicking on the main window, brings the dialog window to the front and makes the dialog window flash.