I have some animations on a window that should be overall transparent and stretched over multiple screens.
I dont need the title bar or the background.
I would like to save resources.
When I set allowstransparency(bad for performance) to false the transparent background is rendered black.
Is there some lighter alternative to even prevent the window to render the background?
I did not find any thing on alternative rendering or windows. I see the window class inherits from Window : ContentControl, IWindowService but I guess I shouldnt look into that.
I dont have code to show accept at least that im using
<WindowChrome.WindowChrome>
<WindowChrome
CaptionHeight="0"
ResizeBorderThickness="0"
/>
</WindowChrome.WindowChrome>
To disable transparency paddings on a loose window without allowstransparency=true.
One of the things WindowChrome gives you is the ability to add certain Windows window's abilities to a custom design window you make.
Not necessarily related to transparent background.
If you want your window to have round edges you will need to set AllowTranspareny to True, otherwise you will get the black background, no way around that.
I create a Silverlight OOB application in which I try to change the background color of the window transparent. I would like to use as wallpaper its own image. This is not square and therefore interferes with the white background color of the main window.
In the OutOfBrowserSettings I can put as the "Window Style" to "none ".
In WPF there are the two following window properties:
AllowsTransparency = "True"
Background = "Transparent"
Unfortunately, this does not seem to know about Silverlight, though! Does anyone know how I get the background color of the main window transparent?
Have you tried to set beackground to {x:Null}? Or maybe to set the alpha in color to 0 which means transparent. For example #00FFFFFF or #00000000.
This is not possible with the current version (4) of Silverlight.
I'm trying to trap mouse events in WPF by using a topmost, transparent non-modal window. I'm finding that this works fine if the opacity of the window is 0.01 or greater and it has a background color, but when the opacity is set to 0 it no longer receives mouse messages. Is there a way make this window look fully transparent and still get mouse input?
As far as I know, no.
When a Control or Window is fully transparent, it can then be clicked through. This is the case if you set your Window.Background="Transparent", or Opacity="0". As far as I know, this is by design in WPF.
When using an opacity of 0.01, you should barely see the window, if at all. This is likely your best bet at achieving the functionality.
Edit: Another solution, which I tried and does work, is to set the background color to an almost-transparent color. I used Background="#01000000", thus giving an alpha value of 1. This makes your window background transparent-looking, but allows you to place controls on it with the window at full opacity.
In Visual Studio 2010:
Select your window in your design view.
Set the properties of your window to:
AllowsTransparency : check it
Background : Transparent
WindowStyle : None
Just set Background=Brushes.Transparent instead of Background=null.
You don't need to use opacity at all (ie. just leave it at 100% opacity).
For example i think your control name is MyGrid and you want it be Transparent and always get MouseOverEvent.....
If (window AllowsTransparency is True and the window Background is Transparent) Then
use a color like #01777777 for MyGrid Background Or 0.01 for MyGrid Opacity.
Else
use something like #00777777 for MyGrid Background Or 0.00 for MyGrid Opacity.
Setting the opacity to 100% (or any non-zero value), and the background to Transparent (instead of null) should make most controls hittable.
Make sure to set IsHitTestVisible to true. Not all controls can be hit, even if the opacity is 100% and the background is transparent.
You might find it simpler to use Mouse.Capture.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms771301.aspx
When an object captures the mouse, all mouse related events are treated as if the object with mouse capture perform the event, even if the mouse pointer is over another object.
I have a window with a number of controls upon it, each control with a Tooltip associated. In an effort to jazz up the window a little, I have overlayed some semi-transparent ellipses which gives the whole window a glossy finish, however, in some cases the positioning of these ellipses are preventing the hit-test getting down to my controls.
How can I have the ellipses visible, but transparent from a hit-test point-of-view?
IsHitTestVisible = false
My problem is:
I have a Canvas which covers part of my Window. The Opacity of the canvas is set to less than 1, i.e. I can view the controls under the Canvas. What I would like to do is place a control, any control, say a Button, on the canvas and not have that Button semitransparent. Is this possible using WPF?
Try the alpha in the color of the canvas.