Implementing this article with .net cf 2.0 possible?

[juvi]

Hello,

I found this article on alex yakhnin's blog where I am able to dimm the
background when a messagebox pops up....but it seems that is only working
with .net cf 3.5 ... any chance to get this work with .net cf 2.0??

http://blogs.msdn.com/priozersk/archive/2009/03/31/dimming-the-background.aspx

thx
juvi

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

By manually calling (i.e. P/Invoking) the alphablend API you can do the
same.


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[Peter Foot]

Don't see any reason why it won't work on .NETCF 2.0. The DrawAlpha method
is not part of .NETCF3.5 - you'll need to download Alex's accompanying
code - it's an extension method implemented in the GraphicsExtender class in
Alex's library.

Peter

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[juvi]

thank you all for your replies. I got it work....the sample code has a
reference to system.core which is not available in .net cf 2.0 - so I
followed the instructions from Chris and it works.

thx

 

[juvi]

After playing a little bit with the code I noticed a problem:

when calling the BackgroundForm from form1 it does not matter that
BackgroundForm is set to WindowState.Maximized - it just jumps back to window
mode from fullscreen which is really annoying because then it draws the
taskbar....is there any way to avoid this?? thx

 

[juvi]

this code overrides the OnPaintBackground() to see the background dimmed
(unfortunately with the taskbar although the windowstate is set to maximized)

but when I do not override the OnPaintBackground() then it is in maximized
mode....strange?