Capture print dialog's cancel in silverlight printing - silverlight

Does anyone know if you can find out if the print dialog's cancel was clicked?
I've seen post and doc that say "EndPrint – Event fired when the printing is either completed or canceled. "
But I don't think that is the print dialog's canceled... I think the is if the print job is canceled.
thanks

Based on the documentation, I don't believe there's an easy way:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.printing.printdocument.endprint(v=VS.95).aspx
In particular:
The EndPrint event will not occur if
the user cancels the print operation
from the print dialog box. A
BeginPrint event will always occur
before an EndPrint event.
Apparently the EndPrint event is only to clean up in the case of the document actually printing, not in the case of canceling the print dialog.

There is one way,
if the 'PrintPage' event is not CALLED after you call 'printDocument.Print()' method that means 'Cancel' button was pressed by the user on print dialog.
hope it helps.

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How to allow/stop an event based on a condition like YES or NO?

I need to allow or stop an event from happening, based on a given condition such as a pop up box with options YES, NO and CANCEL.
I need to notify the user saying that there are unsaved data and if the user wishes to SAVE it, IGNORE it or CANCEL his current action(event such as Selection-change or Click).
I tried to use createInterceptor() function. But could not achieve the functionality.
Can anybody give me some suggestions with example? Basically I want to know how to stop an event.
Thanks..
Edited
I like the idea of using beforeXXX events. But I am still facing problems. As I mentioned, I need to ask the user if he wishes to save the unsaved data, which is a popup message box (With options YES, NO and CANCEL) that runs asynchronously. So by the time I get a reply, the event will have happened.
For ex. lets imagine a situation where, there is a page that displays a list of records in a grid with a pagination toolbar attached to it on the bottom(with a page size of 10 and total number pages is 10. So totally 100 records) on the left hand side. If you select a record in the list, the details are shown in a detail view on the right hand side.
Now,
I select third record in the list and make some changes to it in the detail view(form).
Without saving the record, I click on next page button on the Pagination toolbar.
It will show a confirm box from the beforeXXX event of Pagination toolbar, but the event will have happened anyway.
Here if the user clicks on CANCEL, I will have to restore the previous state which is already gone. Somehow I will have to go back and select the third record in the list of previous page.
So in order to resolve this problem, if I return false from my beforeXXX event, the next XXX event will be not be triggered.
But if the user clicks on YES or NO options I will have to trigger the event XXX manually which I am unable to do it for a selection-change event as of now.
Like this there can be many operations like list-filtering, searching, Ordering(A-Z/ Z-A), logout etc. For each of this operation I will have to write customised code which totally spoils the readability of the code.
So I was thinking if there is way to, somehow manually trigger the event XXX by holding the event object in beforeXXX...or is there any other way to restore the previous state.
Please give me suggestions....Thanks...
Many events have their "before-" counterpart, for example "beforeactivate". If you return false from this kind of the processing stops.
If not, or if your event does not have it's before- part, then you can use event object passed to all event handlers and call:
ev.stopEvent();
ev.stopPropagation();
return false;
at the end of your handler.

Drag finger from one button to another - want to un-trigger old button and trigger new button - Windows Store

I am working on a windows store application and I want to be able to drag between buttons so that the originally pressed button becomes deactivated and the newly "dragged onto" button becomes activated but I can't seem to get this to work.
I have 2 Buttons inside a StackPanel and the events I have on them are:
PointerPressed
PointerEntered
PointerReleased
PointerExited
PointerCanceled
PointerCaptureLost
PointerPressed and PointerEntered share the same event handler and the rest (the "deactivation" events) share the same event handler.
If I press one button my "activated" event handler is triggered and if I drag off it my "deactivated" event handler is triggered but if I then drag onto the second button the "activated" event handler isn't triggered again.
Strangely, if I start by dragging from off the StackPanel onto one of the buttons the "activated" event handler is triggered. I assume that it is something to do with the internal pointer management stuff but can't seem to find a workaround.
Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can get it to work how I want?
Thanks for your time.
Edit
Okay I've been researching some stuff and I've come across CapturePointer() and ReleasePointerCapture() but this seems to be broken - If I capture the pointer, when I take my finger off the screen, PointerReleased doesn't even get hit.
I've also realized why the "dragging from off the SP onto one of the buttons causes it to 'activate'" - this is because when a button is pressed it doesn't route its event but fires a Click event - meaning the same pointer cannot fire a PointerEntered event of another button, but if it starts outside a Button it will trigger PointerEntered.
This doesn't get me much further but it is a little extra info :)
The concept of Button is a bit unique in regard to mouse capture and how dragging away from it happens. In your scenario I'm not sure if the event model around Button will work correctly for you. On Button, when a pointer is depressed (mouse) it has capture until it is released. This is not the same for touch where a press and drag away is different because in touch there isn't any explicit capture unless you create it.
So what you are hitting is going to be a slight conflict between mouse/touch interactions anyway using Button -- using some other UI element (not sure if you have a styled button) should get you what you want.

Button does not click if I handle content's mousedown

I have this situation:
<Button MouseDown="Button_MouseDown" Click="Button_Click">
<TextBlock MouseDown="Inner_MouseDown">Button</TextBlock>
</Button>
Method Inner_MouseDown is completely empty. .Handled is NOT set to true.
But Button_Click is not executed. If I remove the MouseDown="Inner_MouseDown",button clicks without problems. Can anybody help me find out why handling MouseDown with no logic prevents button from click?
Thanks a lot.
Andrej
OK, I found out something important. It seems that it works good until I add breakpoint to Inner_MouseDown method. If debugger stops there Click event is not raised. If I just remove the breakpoint it works allright. Same problem if I show messagebox in the Inner_MouseDown method. If I just increment some temp variable it works nice.
But this answers my question, why it does not work even if it should. Actually it works, problem is somewhere else.
My guess: It may be because Click == MouseDown + MouseUp within a small time interval, and when you break after the MouseDown, the MouseUp isn't processed until after the time interval has elapsed.

Silverlight click event registered a second time before first event completed

I have a button which launches a "modal dialog" - it just creates a transparent grid covering everything, with the "dialog" created on top of that.
However I have a strange issue - if I double/triple click the button really fast (or add some delay in the event code), the button click event is executed multiple times, creating multiple overlapping modal dialogs. If the first action in my event is to disable the button (IsEnabled=false) it seems to prevent this.
My guess is that Silverlight is being multithreaded with input - it is not only recording the second click in another thread (while the button's click event is running), but it is jumping the gun by evaluating which control should be the target before the previous event has finished executing. Even though that event alters what control is at those mouse coordinates, it doesn't matter.
Does anyone know anything about this behavoir, or a way around it? If I have something like a save window, where the user clicks a save button, a blocking grid ("Saving...") is placed up while it saves, and then the whole "window" is closed, I'd like to avoid the user being able to queue up multiple save event clicks (this could lead to unpredictable program behavoir).
If you've ever worked with WinForms or WPF, this is expected behavior. Your button is broadcasting its Click event until your modal dialog covers it up. Unfortunately, there is some amount of time between your first click and when the modal dialog covers the button which allows multiple clicks to the original button.
You have two solution choices:
Disable the button after the first click and then re-enable after the modal dialog returns. You've already mentioned that this works.
Write code in the Event Handler of the button to determine if a modal dialog is already being displayed. This way, you're putting the responsibility in one location rather than splitting it up (disabling and re-enabling the button). This would be my preferred solution.
I think what you're seeing is the behaviour of Silverlight's routed events.
You can set the Handled property of the event arguments to true to prevent the event from bubbling.

How to prevent a Winforms control from listening to the keyboard

For a certain inputform, I'd like to make it possible to do input with the keyboard. I know how to read the keys through KeyPressed and KeyUp, but the problem is that when a control has got the focus and the user presses the Enter key, that control receives the a Click event. Is it possible to prevent that behaviour ? Or is it possible to know if a Click Event was fired by the mouse or by the keyboard ?
Does this help? From Microsoft Knowledge Base
Move the Button's code from the button.Click() to a button.MouseClick()
This would be easier if you could describe the situation and exact behaviour you want... :)
You can set:
Form.KeyPreview = True
This sends Key Events to the Form first, and then to the Control. This gives you the opportunity to catch Key Events on the form and 'cancel' them:
e.Handled = True
More info
Also make sure you haven't set the AcceptButton for the Form!
You can also listen for keyboard events and filter out keys.

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