The charms bar is the menu on the right side of the screen in Windows 8 (by default hidden). When a mouse is used you can activate it by moving your mouse to the right top or bottom corner. On a touch enabled device you can swipe from the border to the left to activate it.
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Disable Windows 8 edge gestures/hot corners for multi-touch applications while running in full screen
I have a full screen AS3 game maby with Adobe AIR that runs in Windows 7.
In this game it may not be easy to exit (think about kiosk mode, only exit by pressing esc and enter a password).
Now I want this game to run in Windows 8. The game is working…
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Programmatically open charm bar, power bar and start menu with C#
How to programatically open:
Charm Bar
Power Options
Start Menu
in windows 8?
I want to be able to open them from within my c# application
Cannot find the documentation I need
Thanks!
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How to add new line while sharing text in WinRt
I want to share some text using mail client on windows 8, in which I want to display new lines. It displays it correctly in notepad on using \r\n but doesn't work with the SetText function in DataTransferManager.
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How can i set settings propperties in charms bar in XAML, Windows 8?
I'm trying to get the charms bar working in windows 8, but i can't find any thing using google.
What i want is to let users acces settings and privacy policy throuw charms bar.
I all ready have this:
public MainPage()
{
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apero
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Trouble Attaching File Programmatically to Email in Windows Metro App C#/XAML using Share Charm
I'm simply trying to attach a file named Document.pdf in the DocumentsLibrary to an email using the Share Charm. My code below works perfectly on the Local Machine:
private async void OnDataRequestedFiles(DataTransferManager sender,…
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Fill Windows Share Charm with Clipboard Data
I want to share data in the Clipboard (for example Images) through the share charm. Is it possible to use the windows clipboard content in the Windows 8.1 Share Charm? Unfortunately the DataTransferManager isn't available in desktop apps, so how am…
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Virtual keyboard opens automatically when closing charms/settings
My application uses the virtual keyboard. The keyboard becomes hidden when the charms bar is opened, but it will always reappear when the charms bar is closed. I want to control whether it reappears or not.
My program has several folders with…
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Disable Windows 8 CharmsBar in WPF-Fullscreen App
I want to create a new fullscreen "kiosk" WPF Application for Windows 8.
It's not a modern UI app.
The app should be start automatically and must be unclosable.
A few things are already implemented.
The app disables the hardware windows key with a…
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Cannot open the Windows Search Pane in WPF: Element not found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070490)
I have a WPF project with only these changes from an empty project:
This line added to the .csproj: 8.0
A reference added to Windows
A button with a Click handler executing this:…
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How to navigate within settings flyout in Windows 8.1 Store app?
I am working on my first Win 8.1 Store app and have some trouble understanding the SettingsFlyout.
Thanky to the docs creating Flyouts for my custom settings and adding them to the Settings Charm is not a problem.
However I have not been able to…
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Add text to Windows 8 Search charm menu
I would like to be able to add some text (not a link) to the Windows 8 search charm menu (not a flyout, the menu itself). I'm currently adding commands/links to the menu like this (simplified for this post):
WinJS.Application.onsettings =…
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Metro App Detect Printer Charm Open and Close
I have a metro application and would like to detect when the Printer charm is opened and closed. Is this possible?
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windows store app crashes when launched from charm bar. works well otherwise
windows store app crashes when launched from charm bar. works well otherwise
can anyone tell how to debug the app and launch in visual studio like from charm bar
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MFC- Programmatically Disable Charms Bar
I need to programmatically disable Windows 8 charms bar.
On MSDN i can find sample code to do that.
However while using that code snippet with Windows 8 SDK installed on my machine i am getting Linker error.
The code snippet can be found at…
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Enable CharmBar to Our App in Windows8 Metro apps?
Hi I have developed a metro app using HTML5 and JavaScript, I want to work with charm bar when am inside my app.But here default Charm-bar is showing but not enabled to my app?
Here actually am not following the groups…
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