Non-Full Screen Dialog Box

[Guest]

Hi

I am developing a form which I want it to work as a modal dialog box (using ShowDialog)
But when I say ShowDialog it show me a full screen Dialog. I want the dialog to be of a small size or the size
of which I have designed. In EVC I used m_bFullScreen. But how should I make the same in Compact Framework

Thanks in advance
Amit.

 

[Arsa]

I guess by setting FormBorderStyle to none.Other possibility is using Panel
and use Show/Hide

Arsa

Hi,

I am developing a form which I want it to work as a modal dialog box (using ShowDialog) .
But when I say ShowDialog it show me a full screen Dialog. I want the

dialog to be of a small size or the size

of which I have designed. In EVC I used m_bFullScreen. But how should I

make the same in Compact Framework.

 

[Elisa]

Hi,

I don't think there is a clean way to achieve non-full screen modal
forms. I got around it by creating a custom full-screen modal form,
where I overwrote the OnPaint() and OnPaintBackground() methods with
completely empty methods (that don't even call their base method). Then,
add a panel (or custom control) to the form, and make that look like a
form (i.e. give it a border, a title bar, ...).


Regards,

Elisa

 

[Mark Erikson]

Hi,

I don't think there is a clean way to achieve non-full screen modal
forms. I got around it by creating a custom full-screen modal form,
where I overwrote the OnPaint() and OnPaintBackground() methods with
completely empty methods (that don't even call their base method). Then,
add a panel (or custom control) to the form, and make that look like a
form (i.e. give it a border, a title bar, ...).


Regards,

Elisa

I came up with a reasonable solution to this sort of issue a while
back. Might not fit your needs 100%, but even if it doesn't, you
might be able to adapt it. See the following newsgroup post:

http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

Hope this helps!

Mark Erikson

 

[Guest]

Try the solution proposed by Chris Tacke on his blog
http://blog.opennetcf.org/ctacke/commentview.aspx/70957218-553d-454e-a0fe-b1bb5f3cac5

 

[Guest]

Hi all...Thanks very much I managed to do it very well by setting the border style none and using panel. But in the above reply Dan, can you please tell me what exactly is opennetcf and how can I make use of that

Thanks for the help
Amit