The Media Center Sandbox

I have been searching for the past hour and can't find the simple solution of how to overlay my application page. I have a page I would like to overlay something like the built in media center slide deck. How to I get it to show up overtop as opposed to navigating to a new page? Sorry, I know this is probably quite basic.

It's a bit like doing overlays in web pages... you need to create the overlay and put it in your MCML, but make visible="false" on the element.

Then, when you want to display the item, set visible="true" to bring it up. Put a NavigateInto in your overlay UI to get focus on the first item on the overlay, and put a ColorFill that captures mouse clicks behind the overlay to stop the page behind from being focused.

Cheers,
Andrew

As always, thanks!!

Hey Andy,

I've got this all up and working finally. Thanks! Question for you. I've used NavigateInto to give my slide focus when it is visible. Once a button is clicked on my slide I lose focus to the backround. My navigate into is based on the slide being visible (property in my c# code). Is there a way to make sure it keeps the focus until my visible property (in c#) is set to false thus making the slide disappear? Or any thought on how to solve this one?
Thanks!

I was able to fix this by removing key interactivity on all items in the background while my slide is visible.

The easier way to do that is to set <Panel Name="YourOverlay"  Navigation="ContainAll" >.... That way the navigation never gets outside of that panel.

eMpTy3000 that's genius, I've just used that in my app and it's stopped an annoyance I had with "popup" menus. Thanks.