CAknDialog with grey background

[alav]

Hello,

When showing dialogs (for example progress dialog, wait dialog etc.) the content behind the dialog gets greyed out. I would like to achieve the same behaviour in my CAknDialog derived class, which contains a CCoeControl and fills (EEikDialogFlagFillAppClientRect flag) the client rect. Precisely, I'd like to get the status pane area (not the status pane itself necessarily, as the application may be a full screen one) greyed out.

Can you help me in achieving this?

Cheers,
Maciej

[deepchand86]

Have you tried watching the background what is happening out actually...

If u want the clientRec() to be greyed out..
try drawing a custom(transparent mask) for the ClientRect() area and then display ur custom CAknDialog..

[strike_noir]

You must derive your own dialog from CAknDialog.
There is a lot of example for deriving your own dialog, one that I recall is inside the ImageConverter sample in a class named CShowInfoDialog.
The ImageConverter sample is available for download in this forum.

Now after deriving your own dialog, you need to override the

        void Draw( const TRect& aRect ) const;

Inside it just draw a rect that fills the entire screen using a transparent color as show in the snippet below.

		TRgb color(KRgbWhite);
		color.SetAlpha(204);
		gc.SetBrushStyle(CGraphicsContext::ESolidBrush);
		gc.SetBrushColor(color);
		gc.DrawRect(aRect);

Now you have covered the whole screen with transparent white (you can change it to transparent grey of course). Add your controls and draw other things like text etc.

[alav]

Wow, I have a problem with dialog and... I stumble upon my own thread:)

Anyway - I want my dialog to have a skin background. I follow the way you should use CAknsBasicBackgroundControlContext (construction, MopSupplyObject method, resizing etc.). I also know the background should be drawn in the Draw method of the CCoeControl it is placed in (CAknDialog in this case).

Now here comes the problem. I have defined a void Draw( const TRect& aRect ) const; method in my CAknDialog derived class and... it is not called at all. Thus, I can't draw the background.

Any idea why the Draw method of CAknDialog is not getting called?

Thanks

[wizard_hu_]

It is supposed to be called, and in fact it may do some skinnig for itself: http://developer.symbian.org/xref/os...DIALG.CPP#1581
Do you enable skinning for your application? (EAknEnableSkin to AppUi::BaseConstructL)

[alav]

Thanks for your answer. Skinning is enabled. That's the source code of CEikDialog, I am using CAknDialog, maybe that's the difference? I did some logging in the Draw method, I even put a Panic and it doesn't crash. What are the most important differences between CEikDialog and CAknDialog?

My code:

class CMyDlg : public CAknDialog
{
...
void Draw(const TRect &aRect) const;
...
}

----

void CMyDlg::Draw(const TRect &aRect) const
	{
	User::Panic(_L("Draw"), 1);
	}

[wizard_hu_]

If you put CAknDialog into the search box on that page, you will find http://developer.symbian.org/xref/os...dialog.cpp#363 soon. However it is true that the open source code is a few versions later, than what your device is running.
It may worth checking IsBlank somewhere (construction time is most probably too early for that, try somewhere later).

[alav]

I have taken a look at the CAknDialog source code. IsReadyToDraw() seems to be the key. My dialog returns EFalse in PostLayoutDynInitL() and also later, for example in HandleResourceChange(). That prevents a control from being drawn.

Any ideas why my dialog wouldn't consider itself ready to be drawn?:)

[wizard_hu_]

I would not bet on that: if IsReadyToDraw is false, nothing seems to get drawn (including the child controls), you can check its usage in CCoeControl (http://developer.symbian.org/xref/os...c/COECNTRL.CPP), by the way, the method itself is also there.