save/open Dialog Box (TOPMOST Property??)

[Guest]

Hi,

Feel pretty ignorant asking this but would truely appreciate any help.

I am designing an industrial piece of equipment which will only run my one
application on the machine. Therefore, i don't want the user to see the
bottom bar on the display (with the START menu, open windows, date/time etc.)

The only way I have been able to accomplish hidding this is by setting the
TOPMOST property = true on all my forms in my application.

The problem I'm running into is i want to open a save/open dialog box on a
form (which has the TOPMOST property set) and the dialog box is hidden!!!

If I change the Form's TOPMOST property to false, I can see the open/save
dialog box.

Therefore my question is:
1.) Is the TOPMOST property the best way to make your application seem like
the only thing running on a windows CE5.0 (CF2.0) platform??

2.) If TOPMOST property is the best way, then how can I get a save/open
dialog box to be visible (It doesn't have this property).

Thanks so much - truely appreciate any help (loosin hair over here quickly!!!)
WillieJoe

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

This has been covered a number of times before. You can search old messages
via GoogleGroups and the following link for this specific group:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...tframework?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

You want to seach on something like "kiosk", maybe. You can find it
searching on the obvious strings, but that one will limit your result set.

Paul T.