Playing round windows using WPF

Question

Is it possible with WPF to create a circle-shaped window and use a background movie for playback?

Answer 1

To create a non-rectangular window, you need to do three things first.

• Set Window.WindowStyle to WindowStyle.None
• Set Window.AllowsTransparency to True
• Set the .Background window to transparent (or {x: Null})

Now your window is completely transparent. You can use other tips in this thread to draw a piece of media in the geometry of the window.

Answer 2

You just need to add something like this to your xaml:

<Ellipse Height="80" Width="80">
    <Ellipse.Fill>
        <VisualBrush TileMode="None">
            <VisualBrush.Visual>
                <MediaElement Source="myMovie.wmv" />
            </VisualBrush.Visual>
        </VisualBrush>
    </Ellipse.Fill>
</Ellipse>

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Answer 3

AllowsTransparency, , :

http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsdk/archive/2008/09/08/custom-window-chrome-in-wpf.aspx

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Answer 4

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