Setting LCD background color

NETMF & Gadgeteer
1

Hello:

Just getting started…got som text up on my 7" screen, but would like to set the entier screen color to, perhaps, green…is there an easy way? I’ve tried a few things & poked atround, but not sure what parameter sets the screen (window) color.

 public Window CreateWindow()
        {
            // Create a window object and set its size to the
            // size of the display.
            mainWindow = new Window();
            mainWindow.Height = SystemMetrics.ScreenHeight;
            mainWindow.Width = SystemMetrics.ScreenWidth;
      
            // Create a single text control.
            text = new Text();

            text.Font = Resources.GetFont(Resources.FontResources.sego32);
            text.TextContent = Resources.GetString(Resources.StringResources.String1);
            text.HorizontalAlignment = Microsoft.SPOT.Presentation.HorizontalAlignment.Center;
            text.VerticalAlignment = Microsoft.SPOT.Presentation.VerticalAlignment.Center;
            text.ForeColor = Colors.Red;
            // Add the text control to the window.
            mainWindow.Child = text;
2

See Background property of the Window object

3

where is the best place to “see it”?

is there a good concise source for such help? I tend to get these links to Mcrosoft & they list 500 articles including setting the backgound color of Excel cells, doing things in VB, foxpro, monitoring a background task, etc. I just want info related to what’s doable in .netmf. I guess I want a help that is more focused.

Is there a concise list of the properties (with short descriptions, not large articles) available for .netmf? Just a listing of names is not useful. Then when I find what I want to use I can go find a lengthy treatise.

4

Here ([url]Microsoft Learn: Build skills that open doors in your career) are all the properties of a window object. You can see Background (it’s a brush inherited from Control).

5

here’s the bookmarks you want…

[url]http://www.tinyclr.com/support/[/url]

Part way down that page is “Library Documentation”

•Library documentation
◦ Microsoft .NET Micro Framework API Reference [url]Microsoft Learn: Build skills that open doors in your career
◦ GHI Electronics NETMF Documentation Sep. 29, 2011 [url]http://ghielectronics.com/downloads/NETMF/Library%20Documentation/Index.html[/url]
◦ WIZnet Ethernet Documentation (FEZ Connect) Sep. 29, 2011 [url]http://www.ghielectronics.com/downloads/NETMF/WIZnet%20Library%20Documentation/Index.html[/url]