Silverlight - Possible to not rotate parent window overlay when ChildWindow rotates? - silverlight

I've got a ChildWindow that rotates 180 degrees when I click a button.
I'm also using a ChildWindow.OverlayBrush to dim out the parent window.
This of course rotates as well when the ChildWindow rotates.
Is there anyway to dim out the parent window without it rotating with the ChildWindow?

2 options spring to mind:
You either need the OverlayBrush to
not be under the same element you
rotate (can you rotate a child
within the window instead?)
Or, you need to rotate the overlay
brush in the opposite direct in the
same animation so that it cancels
out the motion.

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Click Event through transparent surface using Helixtoolkit.SortingVisual3D

I want my clickable blue cube to change a color while I click on it through transparent surface MeshGeometryVisual3D element. When the cube container is a children of the ViewPort class everything works fine but is not visible through the surface (no sorting), but when it is children of Helixtoolkit.SortingVisual3D the click event stops to work but is visible through the surface!
This is the code of SortingVisual3D elements what I use:
<helix:SortingVisual3D x:Name="sortingVisual1" Method="BoundingSphereSurface" SortingFrequency="5" >
<helix:MeshGeometryVisual3D x:Name="_visual" MeshGeometry="{Binding objectGeometry}" Visible="{Binding IsChecked, ElementName=MeshVisible}" >
</helix:MeshGeometryVisual3D>
</helix:SortingVisual3D>
The code of the cube adding to SortingVisual3D element is this:
AddCubePoint cpsorting = new AddCubePoint(middle, defaultMaterial);
sortingVisual1.Children.Add(cpsorting);
I have tried to use two identical cubes (one child of ViewPort, the second of SortingVisual3D) at the same position, but the color changes on clicking behind the surface, only on children of ViewPort (see the picture)!
I am new to helix-3d-toolkit and after 2 days research I couldn't find any workable solution or idea how to solve this problem ! Please, help me !
You need to put the cube before your semi transparent mesh, so the cube is rendered first. Set your transparent mesh hit test visible to false

Rotate WPF control or change screen orientation

I have wpf project with one Window (MainWindow). Depending upon the config file it shows one of two UserControl's as Content. It may be a horizontal (1920x1080) control or vertical (1080x1920) control. It's fine with horizontal screen, but when vertical is loaded I would like to do:
1) rotate window/control by 270 degrees
2) change primary screen orientation
I would prefer to just rotate application and don't interact with windows API. I can't change orientation manually, because I have only remote access to this computer.
You can not rotate the Window object itself, as it is positioned by the window management system built in Windows. You can, however, transform (and thus rotate) any FrameworkElement inside the window. This includes, but is not limited to, the Grid, the Button and the TextBox elements.
All you need to do is edit the LayoutTransform property on the element you want to rotate, which is most likely the root element in your window. Set the rotation to 270/-90 degrees and WPF will automatically rotate your UI.
Because you are using the LayoutTransform property, the layout system will also scale you UI correctly. The RenderTransform property causes the control to first be rendered, then be rotated.
YES WE CAN CHANGE SCCREEN ORIENTATION USING
DEVMODE & using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
its bit late to reply but I am replaying for the new ones , if someone com across this article for change screen rotation in C# or VB .
Please use the link given below to get help Mr. Hannes Completely write an article to change screen rotation and luckily its working fine for me (Windows 11) as now of..
https://www.codeguru.com/dotnet/creating-a-screen-rotator-in-net/

Move (zoom and pan) around a large Canvas

I have a lot of images placed on a canvas (~150 pages converted PDF).
I would like to be able to move around from one region to another of this canvas by animating the movement (zoom and pan).
My animation keys are in a listbox. I have a "play" button to play all.
When I click an animation key, my "camera" automatically moves to the defined location.
It's a kind of "Prezi wall".
This is only half or three quarters of an answer really, but hopefully you can fill in the gaps. You could try using the VisualBrush Class. First you set up the visual that the VisualBrush will paint using your full Canvas:
VisualBrush visualBrush = new VisualBrush();
visualBrush.Visual = yourCanvasElement;
You then paint with the Brush onto, let's say, a Rectangle element:
Rectangle rectangle = new Rectangle();
...
rectangle.Fill = visualBrush;
You can then use the VisualBrush.Viewbox property to move the content about. Now I think that there is some way of zooming in and out, but I can't remember at the moment.
Alternatively, you could use the ViewBox class. You can get your zooming effect by changing the size of the content and the ViewBox and get your panning effect by using a ScrollViewer. There's a post on StackOverflow that demonstrates this, so please take a look at the Zooming To Mouse Point With ScrollView and ViewBox in Wpf post for more help with this method.

Get Mouse Position on Canvas (But NOT on window)?

I have a project in WPF 4 and vb.net 2010.
I have a canvas inside a window. The window is full screen, but the canvas is set to a solid 640x480 in the center of the window. I need to get the mouse position inside of the canvas, but NOT inside of the window. How do I do this?
Doesn't this work?
Point p = Mouse.GetPosition(canvas);
The position of the mouse pointer is
calculated relative to the specified
element with the upper-left corner of
element being the point of origin,
Hi the important thing is the
NOT on the Window
the canvas is part of the window as well.
one example:
the Window.AllowsTransparency state is on true
the Window.Background is #00000000 (completely transparent)
the Window.Style is None
the Window.State is Maximized and
there are NO controls or elements on the window!
...
so if you start the application you will see Nothing
now tell me how to get the mouseposition on the screen in pixel
!Warning!
if you juse Mouse.GetPosition(this); it will return x0 y0 every time
so I solved the Problem by using System.Windows.Forms.Control.MousePosition it's a bit a mix of wpf and Windows.Forms but I've given up xD.
Sorry for yelling :/
To make it easy for me I made a Extension:
<DebuggerHidden> _
<System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Extension> _
Public Function toWfpPoint(p As System.Drawing.Point) As Point
Return new Point(p.X, p.Y)
End Function
Now I just can juse it like this:
Dim MousPos As Point = System.Windows.Forms.Control.MousePosition.toWfpPoint

WPF - how to best implement a panel with draggable/zoomable children?

I'm trying to modify the default graph viewer of the Graph# library because its user interface is awful (just try dragging a node outside of the boundaries, you'll see!)
The basic setup is this: there is a GraphCanvas control (inherited from Panel) which has children of Vertex and Edge control types. What I want to achieve is:
GraphCanvas has scroll bars if the contents do not fit in the screen;
GraphCanvas can also be scrolled by "dragging" it (just click on an empty space and drag);
GraphCanvas can be zoomed in and out (via CTRL+mouse wheel);
Vertices can be dragged around. If a vertex is dragged outside the current boundaries of GraphCanvas, the boundaries are increased. The scroll bars should reflect this, however the current viewport should not scroll away while the vertex is being dragged . The same goes if dragging a vertex reduces the boundaries of GraphCanvas - it should stay the same size until the drag operation is finished and resize only then. Automatically scrolling the viewport during a drag operation is awfully confusing and easily introduces dragging errors. See the original implementation if you want to know what I mean.
Although I've got a fair bit of experience with .NET, I'm still a complete beginner in WPF. My current attempt is (in the measure/arrange layout phase) to give each vertext the XY coordinate it desires (even if negative) and implement zooming/scrolling by handling mouse events on the GraphCanvas and modifying the RenderTransform property. Dragging just changes the XY coordinates on the specific vertex (probably triggering the re-layout of the whole thing which would be nice to avoid too). Scrollbars are implemented by placing the GraphCanvas inside a ScrollViewer and implementing IScrollInfo on the GraphCanvas.
Unfortunately there seems to be a problem: I can get mouse events on the GraphCanvas itself only if it has a background at the point. That would be OK, I want a white background anyway, but in the negative coordinates of the GraphCanvas it does not draw the background - and thus does not respond to mouse events.
I'm also wondering if I'm doing the Right Thing by allowing all my child controls (vertices and edges) to go into negative coordinates. How would you implement this?
Added: To clarify about the background problem check out the following screenshot:
(source: valts.21.lv)
What you see here is a simple Windows Forms form with a WPF Host control on it. That has a ScrollViewer in it, and the ScrollViewer has the GraphCanvas in it. The GraphCanvas contains 4 vertices and 6 edges.
The GraphCanvas is stretched to fill the ScrollViewer. But since some of the vertices are at negative coordinates, it has a RenderTransform applied which simply shifts everything to the right (TranslateTransform). It also has a white background brush.
Note the gray area on the left. That's still a part of the GraphCanvas, but the background brush somehow doesn't exted there. Also, if I left-click there with my mouse (not on a node, but on the gray area), I do NOT get an event. If I left-click on the white area, I get all events just fine.
Call CaptureMouse on canvas.mouseDown and ReleaseMouseCapture on mouse up. Also, if you set your canvas background to transparent it will still be hit testable
You can attach a 'Draggable' behavior to each element.

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