Limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight

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Limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight | Tmao Coders — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:50:59 GMT

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re: Limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight

patrick8639 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:17:45 GMT

It seems that you forget the real reasons why many people use windowless mode: to have support for mouse wheel and right-click events which are not doable without this.

Patrick

re: Limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight

Karl Erickson — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:38:31 GMT

Thanks for the tip, Patrick. I have updated the post to reflect the scenario of creating an HTML layer on top of a Silverlight layer, which is necessary for the mouse wheel and right-click handling that you mention.

-Karl

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re: Limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight

BobStrogg — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:31:25 GMT

Karl - How does this compare to Flash? I've seen some pretty well-performing Flash 9/10 apps running with transparent backgrounds (for instance the "thumbnail slider" at http://www.next2friends.com).

Thanks!

re: Limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight

Karl Erickson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:21:02 GMT

My understanding is that the limitations of windowless mode are pretty similar for both Flash and Silverlight, since the issues are on the browser side, rather than the plug-in side.

Note that the example you link to does not actually use a transparent background (if you view source, you will see <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />).

-Karl

re: Limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight

j2yau — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:48:19 GMT

Karl - would you know any alternative method to Windowless that allows HTML layers to go on top of Silverlight components?

Thanks!

re: Limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight

Karl Erickson — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:56:07 GMT

Windowless mode is the only way to create user interfaces that blend HTML and Silverlight, regardless of which one is on top. Without Windowless mode, the Silverlight plug-in has its own window, which is always on top, and cannot blend in HTML UI from underneath.

-Karl