I have several child windows and i want one of the these child windows always on top of all other opened child windows. i want when i do close or open other child windows, this child window always on top of all current child windows.
child window not have a z-index property?
please help me, thanks
I have not a lot of work experience with child windows, but have some idea...). If child window is a part of to inherited tree of FrameworkElement then you can try call "Focus" method for displaying it on the top.
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When I run Snoop 2.8, it sees my program's main window and lists it in its ComboBox. However, my program creates a child window that is displayed by calling ChildWindow.Show(). No matter what I do, I can't snoop that child window. If I refresh the list of windows, it doesn't show up. If I drag the little cross hairs icon next to the binoculars over the child window, the main window comes up.
How do I Snoop my applicaton's child window?
When I use Snoop, I always first start snoop and then use the "shift+control" shortcut to focus on what I want. This seems to work even if I do it to a child window. So try this:
Start application, open child window
Run Snoop
Snoop any window in the application
Focus on your child window (click on the title bar of the window)
Move the mouse over what you want to inspect, and hold down the Shift and Control keys simultaneously
A red outline appears in your application, and you should see Snoop show/select the element in question in the tree. If you look up the visual tree on the left you will now see the child window is the parent of the tree.
This solution was last tested in Snoop 2.8.
Have you ever look for WPF Inspector? I always use it instead of snoop and and never had any problem with child windows...
http://wpfinspector.codeplex.com/
I'm writing a WPF application to control an industrial process. The main window class spawns child windows, each to control a separate piece of equipment. These child windows can be dragged but not resized.
The child windows are owned by the parent so they stay on top, but the problem this creates is that they can be dragged on top of the main window menu, which is considered aesthetically unacceptable by my client.
It would be OK if the child window goes under the menu or if it goes right up to the menu and stops but it's not OK to obscure the main menu. How can I achieve this? Can it be done within WPF without going into Win32 and unmanaged code?
Thanks in advance.
You could try to set Topmost=True on the parent window, and make it only contain the main menu. So, you'd basically have one window for the main menu and a couple of others for everything else. Or, if you can't do that, you can create a main menu window with Topmost=True as a child window of your parent, and move both of them together whenever one of them changes position.
I have WPF application with main window. I want to create child WPF window which always must be above ONLY parent window. If I set TopMost property for new window then window is above ALL nonTopMost windows on desktop. It's not what I want.
Set the Owner property of the child window so that it refers to the parent window.
child.Owner = parent;
Depending on the nature of the window, I often use a "Fake" window that is really just a layer in the parent along with a partailly transparent grey layer between that makes the parent look ghosted while the child is active. You can then keep the child window set to collapsed until it is needed.
I want to create a child window in silverlight 4 but when the child window pop-up the parent window should not be disable.
I should able to access control or properties from parent window how do i do this.
Whether its possible?
Set OverlayBrush property of ChildWindow to transparent color
I think that you can find solution in FloatableWindow here.
I have a WPF window that has TopMost=true . When I call another Window from this window and specify the topmost window as the parent the owned window also displays as TopMost.
I would like to find a way to stop that from happening so that my parent can still own the child yet the child does not have TopMost=True.
I know I can just not bother to set the owner on the child then I won't get the TopMost flag, but I need all my windows to close with the parent window and writing the logic to handle that seems like a waste when it is included.
I've tried to explicitly set the TopMost=False after the child was loaded but no luck, it doesn't seem to matter if the owner window is TopMost then the child will be no matter what I do to it's TopMost property.
Any ideas?
Set The TopMost of the (parent) window, at runtime. (and not by default)