Shading area behind modal window

[Jack]

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[Hristo Borisov]

Hello Jack,

If you are looking for a property that changes the modal background, you can simply use the ModalBackground property of RadWindow. Just make sure you open the RadWindow as modal dialog by calling the ShowDialog method. If this is not what you are looking for, or in case you need some custom scenario, please feel free to share it with us.

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Hristo Borisov
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[Jack]

Hristo,

I don't want the Modal Background - I want to shade everything but the window I pop open so it stands out like a sore thumb.  It looks like FireFox butchered my forum posting... I'll try again with the URL that has the example - open the Modal Dialog option

www.divil.co.uk/net/controls/sanddocksl/livedemofullscreen.htm
 


Any idea how to stop Firefox from messing up forum posts?

thanks

jack

[Rosi]

Hello Jack,

Please take a look at our online example -Configurator and click the Open Modal button. This example illustrates the desired behavior.

As for the FireFox problem - it looks like that you  use FireFox 3.1 beta version which has some issues related with javascript. That is the reason why the forum messages are not saved. We hope that these problems will be fixed when FireFox 3.1 is official released.

Hope this helps.

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Rosi
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[Jack]

That is what I was hoping to do.  Is that a configurable option?  I did a peek at the code and didn't see anything set.  Is that a default behaviour

Also thanks for the tip on the browser...  I thought their javascript issues were fixed in beta 3.  Apparently not.

thanks
jack

[Hristo Borisov]

Hi Jack,

As I mentioned before the difference is in the way you open the RadWindow. To popup the control without shading area you should use the Show() method, to open it as a modal dialog you should call the ShowDialog() method of the control. I hope this will resolve your issue.

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Hristo Borisov
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[Jack]

Hristo,

I understand how to open modal vs. nonmodal.  I was asking if you can configure the background shading.  For example say I wanted it to be grey vs. blue or orange?

Thanks

jack

[Boyan]

Hello Jack,

 Sorry for the late reply. You can use the ModalBackground property and set a color to your liking. You can also set Opacity if you do it from code. It will look like this:

window1.ShowDialog();
            Color myColor = Color.FromArgb(255, 255, 255, 0);
            SolidColorBrush myBrush = new SolidColorBrush();
            myBrush.Color = myColor;
            SolidColorBrush solid = new SolidColorBrush(myColor);
            solid.Opacity = 0.5;
            window1.ModalBackground = solid;

  I hope that helps! Please, tell me if you need further assistance.

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Boyan
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