I actually published that last week, but forgot to write about it on my blog since I was engrossed in some other issues – which I’ll blog about soon. Anyway, DimmerDialog is a .NET class I wrote, that shows a modal dialog which grays out the rest of the background, just like the Windows XP Shutdown dialog. This can be used when your application needs to show a very important message box or form that requires immediate user attention, though whether that’s good etiquette or not is up to you to decide, or perhaps your client to decide.
Article – A modal dialog that fades the background to gray-scale
System modal dialogs, redux… I cannot think of a single example where an application would suffer from using a normal application modal dialog. If you ask applications (or their creators) they sure will deem their dialogs “very important” – see the notification area for such an example :] And I am not sure if the client is the right one to decide such things as I doubt that most understand even basic usability implications.
— bg
P.S.: The code is nice and a cool experiment: I would not have think of creating a separate desktop for this :]
Hi Nish ,
First of all being a novice i found your idea to be very cool ,but how to do this using
MFC ,may be an idea will do .