Thanks Tim, We all really appreciate this :)

Nice one Tim. Might use that today.

Hey Tim, been messing with your download files, thanks a lot for the source code!

1 quick question... about the line number 5 fw.ParentLayoutRoot = this.LayoutRoot;

The ParentLayoutRoot property doesn't appear to exist... any idea what I am doing wrong?

Allow me to clarify that, the fw FloatingWindow Object does have a property listed as Parent, but it appears to behave different (or be a different type)

hmmm well I still get get the Window that I initialize in the main page to show up (prolly cuz as I mentioned earlier, that ParentLayoutRoot property seemed to evade me for whatever reason...

But, I did manage to use a button to generate windows like in your example!!! I am pumped man, thanks a million, you rock!

I will continue to play with this and check back frquently

Hi Tim, What benefits do CodePlex have? I want to find a good way to store and organize my works as well.

Hi Tim,
Thanks for sharing this code on CodePlex.

Best regards,
Chris

Is is just me or the HorizontalOffset and VerticalOffset do not work anymore? I used the previous version and that worked just fine.
P.S. Great job with the ParentLayoutRoot, really needed it.

I used the 30044 version, forgot to mention. And by previous version I was referring to the one from the previous post.

In my project, the ParentLayoutRoot is be the first grid inside a TabItem and even if I hardcode the offsets, it is still displayed in the same position (somewhere close to the top-left on the TabItem).
I added a new Silverlight Application project to the project downloaded from codeplex, chose not to host it in a new website, and in the generated MainPage.xaml.cs constructor I put the exact code from your post (those 8 lines). When I run it, the FloatableWindow is always centered, no mather what offset I specify. I tried this on another machine with the same result.

Hi Tim,
FloatableWindow is awesome.I got a question but not related with FloatableWindow :)
I have a datagrid and dataform in main form;dataform in childwindow.When i click add new button ,i popup a childwindow to add record;the question is how can i check childwindow's dataform has errors and if it has errors,cancel adding records

Tim:
This control is fantastic! It is changing the way i develop LOB apps.
In some way, this is the kind of "dataform" I needed.
Now i have to acomplish how to put datafields and async validation inside it, then i will be happy!! lol.
Keep on going and thank you again!
Horacio

Just noticed something while I was trying to use this in conjunction with the navigator... when I tried to modify the ParentLayoutRoot programatically, it lets me set the ParentLayoutRoot do a new location, but then at compile time, it throws an error.

I got around this with the following code:

oldWin.ParentLayoutRoot.Children.Remove(oldWin);
oldWin.ParentLayoutRoot = this.Playground;
oldWin.Show();

Just thought this maybe useful to someone else so I figured I would share it

Awesome! Definitely going to be using this. BTW, maybe I'm using it wrong, but it doesn't seem to be playing the opening animation when using Show() instead of ShowDialog(). I'm guessing this is by design so that the overlay doesn't show up... I'll play with it later when I have time and see if I can change the template a bit if there's an issue.

Thanks for posting this! I missed it the first time around.

Hi Tim,

It is very nice. I have one more questions.

can we restrict the draging the FlatableWindow in a Grid instead of dragging the whole silverlight control area.

Thx
Siva

Hey Tim, wondering if there are any ready made styling templates for the Floatable Window? Just some sort of skin I can load on to change the appearance easily, something like that

It seems that the floating window is restricted to the first row in the layout root grid in my project. Am I doing something wrong, or is there a way to allow it to move/resize across multiple rows?

Hi Tim,

Is there a way to close the floating window from the "parent" application??

The "Parent" is the "this.LayoutRoot"

In this code segment...

public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();

floatableWindow = new FloatableWindow();

floatableWindow.ParentLayoutRoot = this.LayoutRoot;
floatableWindow.Title = "Loading the data...";
floatableWindow.ResizeMode = ResizeMode.NoResize;
Canvas.SetLeft(floatableWindow, (double)25);
Canvas.SetTop(floatableWindow, (double)25);
floatableWindow.Height = 200;
floatableWindow.Width = 200;
floatableWindow.VerticalOffset = 200;
floatableWindow.HorizontalOffset = 100;

floatableWindow.Show();


floatableWindow.Close();

}



I receive an error....

System.NullReferenceException was unhandled by user code Message="Object reference not set to an instance of an object." StackTrace: at System.Windows.Controls.FloatableWindow.Close() at KnowledgeBase.MainPage..ctor() at KnowledgeBase.App.Application_Startup(Object sender, StartupEventArgs e) at System.Windows.CoreInvokeHandler.InvokeEventHandler(Int32 typeIndex, Delegate handlerDelegate, Object sender, Object args) at MS.Internal.JoltHelper.FireEvent(IntPtr unmanagedObj, IntPtr unmanagedObjArgs, Int32 argsTypeIndex, String eventName) InnerException:


But the object is there, and I can see the title in the floatover debugger


thanks for your work on this!!


take care
tony

Same problem :/

Hi Tim: this control is just what I needed... But, It thows the following Exception once closed the control.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object in System.Windows.Controls.FloatableWindow.<Close>b__0(Object s, EventArgs args)
en System.Windows.CoreInvokeHandler.InvokeEventHandler(Int32 typeIndex, Delegate handlerDelegate, Object sender, Object args)
in MS.Internal.JoltHelper.FireEvent(IntPtr unmanagedObj, IntPtr unmanagedObjArgs, Int32 argsTypeIndex, String eventName)

Im not trying to access any information on the Closed EventHandler neither.
First I created a control by using the FloatableWindow template, And then i just created the Window on CodeBehind. But stills the same issue...

Im running v3.0.40624.4 Release of the dll on SL v3.0.50106.0 in a C# project w/RiaServices

Thanks

Tony , you have to set the ParentLayoutRoot Property
Ex
floatableWindow.ParentLayoutRoot = this.LayoutRoot;