You can get this for free via ChildWindow.Show(); The overlay should intercept 
input requests (ie shield them).



From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 10:07 AM
To: 'ozSilverlight'
Subject: Simulating modal dialog

Can anyone recommend a Silverlight way of simulating the effect of a Windows 
model dialog? Or perhaps it's not wise to attempt this at all and use some 
other UI technique.

I have seen a few demos over the last year or so, including one by Stephan 
Dekker last January on the SL weekend where put a semi-transparent canvas over 
the main app window to create a dialog illusion. I think I've seen Jordan 
Knight do the same thing at a demo last year. I heard discussion that these 
techniques are not watertight because they're not really modal and don't block 
keystrokes.

I'm using the Liquid controls, and they seem to contain a Dialog class. I'm 
going to take a couple of hours to play with the Liquid Dialog, but in the 
meantime I thought I'd ask about this subject in general.

Cheers,
Greg

Ps. I've put the context menu into the too-hard-basket for now. I'll return to 
it later when I have more hobby time, or SL4 arrives with one.
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