How can you make a panel like a sheet pf glass?

[Patrick Dugan]

I am creating a user interface and I would like to occasionally place a
transparent panel on top of the entire thing so that it can be viewed
but the controls below the "glass" cannot be used. I tried making a
panel transparent but it only shows whats behind the form (desktop
wallpaper) rather than the other controls below the panel on that form.
Is there any way to make a transparent panel that shows all the controls
below it?

 

[Scott M.]

Why not just disable the controls you don't want the user to use?

 

[Patrick Dugan]

Because one of the controls is a web browser and I don't want the user
to be able to click on anything in the web browser, only view what is
there. The web browser control doesn't have a read-only attribute and I
want the application to continue to operate the web browser control. If
I disable that control the application is not going to be able to use it.

 

[Patrick Dugan]

Because one of the controls is a web browser and I don't want the user
to be able to click on anything in the web browser, only view what is
there. The web browser control doesn't have a read-only attribute and I
want the application to continue to operate the web browser control. If
I disable that control the application is not going to be able to use it.

 

[Family Tree Mike]

With Express C# 2008, this does not behave at all like this. The glass pane
acts as glass, but all controls are still clickable.