I've seen a Windows Phone 7 app with a window/popup which shows, after a use choice, half covering the current window, sliding in from the left while it closes when the users taps outside that window. For Windows 8x Store apps, this is a PopUp Control in a Flyout. But this is not available for Windows Phone.The regular pop-up control doesn't slide in with
<toolkit:TransitionService.NavigationInTransition>
which does work in a page-to-page transition. I have not succeeded either in closing it when I tap outside the pop-up. I tried adding LostFocus="MyEndPopUp" but that method is never called and also tried to end it on a OnNavigateFrom. What do I miss here?
If anyone could e.g. point me to some sample code doing more or less what I want would be great.
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I'm developing an application for the game window but I encounter a strange issue. About 5% of users have different top window panels of the game. In the attachment, you can see the normal window panel and Incorrect (different) version. Every user uses Windows 10 and has the same version of the game application. I'm not sure but on the right side of the incorrect window panel, there is some old-styled leftover (kind of) off minimize/fullscreen/exit buttons. Does anyone know what may cause this strange problem? Maybe they need to change some windows settings, so their game window will look like a Normal window panel?
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We are doing User acceptance testing on a Xamarin Forms UWP app targeting windows 10 tablet. We are finding that when the user clicks on a textbox to enter data the soft keyboard appears as expected. However, when the user then clicks into the next textbox to enter a second required piece of data, the soft keyboard hides/closes. This results in the user having to double hit the second textbox (and any more than might need to be filled). The first click hides the keyboard, the second then causes the keyboard to reappear. To say the least this is not a good user experience. I'm guessing maybe the focus of the second is firing before the lost focus of the first? Has anyone else observed this behavior and is there any easy fix? As may want to target both Android and Windows I'm hoping for a simple solution but maybe UWP just does has some problems?
I have a 3 monitor setup which is connected to a PC. It displays a Google Chrome tab on each of the screens with some dashboard. It will auto log off every night from the website (I cannot control that). So I need to manually login to it, open the tabs, then move it to each of the monitors every night. I am trying to automate this task. I am trying to use Sikuli slides to do it. Right now I am able to login, open tabs, and click on buttons. But I am not able to drag the tabs to other monitors. It doesn't matter which tab is displayed in which monitor. The PC is running Windows 7. How can I get it done ? Any scripting language or tool which is available in windows is fine. Thanks in advance.
Edit: Added an image which describes my need
You're opening the same thing on the same computer on the same screens, so it will be in the same place every time.
AutoHotKey (AHK) can do click-and-drag from a start coordinate to an end coordinate:
https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/MouseClickDrag.htm
Run AutoHotKey, right click on the icon in the taskbar notification area (systray) and click 'Window Spy', and it will bring up AHK's helper tool. Now you can click on the Chrome tabs and look in AHK to see the coordinates of the mouse pointer, so you can plug those into the command. And drag/drop the browser and look at the mouse coordinates there, too.
(And if you weren't using Windows 7, but instead 8 or 8.1 or 10, you could use Aero Snap with Win+RightArrow, Win+RightArrow and Win+UpArrow to move the active window to the edge of the center screen, then to the right screen, then to fullscreen it).
(Or you could use Alt-Space, M, Arrow Keys to script moving the focused window around).
This is what I did to fix it:
Used MouseRecorder to record the mouse movements and keystrokes including my username and password. Using this, I logged in, opened tabs, clicked on buttons and moved them to different monitors.
Problem with this is that it is not possible to load a saved macro and run using the commandline (or I could not figure out). So I used Mouse Controller to record the mouse movement to open MouseRecorder and click on run. [It cannot record key strokes]. Mouse controller has option to run from commandline with ability to accept the filename as argument.
I wrote a batch file to open and run MouseRecorder and scheduled to run every night using task scheduler.
I know how to implement the back button. My question is about the desired behaviour (as I experienced there is a hype around it that the good implementation of back button is required to sell the app in the store).
There is the official source:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff402536(v=vs.105).aspx#BKMK_BackButton
But I have never used a WP8 for more than 5 minutes. I understood that the "Windows" button/key is the same as android home and ios home buttons. Is it true, that the WP8 back should be the same as the android back? (Briefly navigate back through pages (screens/activities), dismiss alerts or cancel confirm popups, or if it is the first/only/final page/activity, the app should exit.)
As I experienced, there is a long-press on the back button, which brings up the app switcher (~ios double home). Is it true that I should not take care about of this button? Is the default behavoiur the same for the remaining buttons (windows, power off, camera (half and full), search)? Should I override them? Can I override them (I think I can use camera, but can I use volume controls for other purposes)?
The certification requirements lay out what the back button should do pretty well. In short, it sounds like how you described the Android back button - here are the relevant requirements:
(5.2.4.1) Pressing the Back button must return the app to the previous page or return to any previous page within the back stack.
(5.2.4.2) Pressing the Back button from the first screen of an app must close the app.
(5.2.4.3) If the current page displays a context menu or a dialog, the pressing of the Back button must close the menu or dialog and return the user to the screen where the context menu or dialog box was opened.
You don't have to handle triggering the long-press, nor do you need to handle navigation specifically (assuming you're using the NavigationService for page navigation.)
You can definitely override the camera button, but search, power, and volume are off limits.
Simple question:
How do I detect that the onscreen keyboard has been displayed on windows mobile 7? Is there an event I can add a listener to?
It takes up about half the screen and I want to scroll the view up when it gets displayed...
EDIT:
A comment below indicates more clearly what I'm trying to do: I have a textbox input, and as the user types into it an autocomplete dropdown appears below it (like google suggest). By default, the active control (the textbox) scrolls into view when focussed, and the onscreen keyboard is directly below it. The onscreen keyboard appears in front of my autocomplete dropdown - what I want to do is make the screen scroll a little further up, so there's some room for my dropdown to be shown.
The windows phone UI design guidelines say: "When the keyboard is deployed, the application should scroll to ensure the active edit control and the caret are in view". This happens fine, it's just the non-active dropdown gets hidden behind the onscreen keyboard.
The guidelines also say that an application can choose to show the onscreen keyboard, and can also choose to close it.
At the moment i'm stuck, and I don't think (based on my research and the replies to this question) that it's possible to detect that the onscreen keyboard has been displayed. I'm moving my investigation to see if it's possible to determine the "visible area" of the page (width & height in pixels for example), and combine this with an onfocus for the textbox... not sure if this will prove fruitful though.
Detecting when the virtual keyboard is displayed won't be possible in 7.0, as confirmed by Microsoft's Peter Torr in the WP7 forum on MSDN.
Maybe, as a dirty workaround, you could detect when the position of your text box (or its parent scroll viewer's offset) has changed, as this would indicate that the virtual keyboard has appeared or disappeared.
You can listen to the TextBox.GotFocus and TextBox.LostFocus events to detect when a text box in your application acquires and looses focus.
If an editable element gets focus then the framework will automatically scroll the element into view. So you really shouldn't have to do anything.