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Display icon over select images in wpf listbox

I've looked at some related answers (Content of a Button Style appears only in one Button instance, and Images only showing in last ListBoxItem), but can't seem to get their answers to work in my example.
My app wpf stack is relatively complex.
I've a UserControl within another window. Within the UserControl, I've a ListBox with nested elements ListBox.ItemTemplate > DataTemplate > Border > Grid > StackPanel
Within the StackPanel is a TextBlock, followed by an Image and a StackPanel.ToolTip
I'm wanting to place an icon over the Image, so I've further obfuscated the image by putting it in a Grid, and adding a ViewBox accessed via a Control Template (as suggested in the above links), so that the ViewBox is centered on the image. Here's the Grid:
<Grid>
<Image RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality"
Height="{Binding ElementName=_this, Path=ThumbSize.Height}"
>
<gif:ImageBehavior.AnimatedSource>
<MultiBinding Converter="{c:ImageConverter}">
<Binding Path="ThumbLocation" />
<Binding Path="FullName" />
</MultiBinding>
</gif:ImageBehavior.AnimatedSource>
</Image>
<Control Template="{StaticResource PlaySymbol}" Visibility="{Binding PlayVisible}" />
</Grid>
The ViewBox's ControlTemplate is in the UserControl.Resources up at the top
<ControlTemplate x:Key="PlaySymbol" TargetType="{x:Type Control}">
<Viewbox Stretch="Uniform"
RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5"
Opacity="0.75"
x:Shared="False"
>
<Viewbox.RenderTransform>
<TransformGroup>
<ScaleTransform ScaleX="0.5" ScaleY="0.5"/>
</TransformGroup>
</Viewbox.RenderTransform>
<ContentControl Content="{StaticResource appbar_control_play}" />
</Viewbox>
</ControlTemplate>
The appbar_control_play is in the Resources directory in an Icons.xaml file.
<Canvas x:Key="appbar_control_play" Width="76" Height="76" Clip="F1 M 0,0L 76,0L 76,76L 0,76L 0,0">
<Path Width="20.5832" Height="31.6667" Canvas.Left="30.0833" Canvas.Top="22.1667" Stretch="Fill" Fill="{DynamicResource BlackBrush}" Data="F1 M 30.0833,22.1667L 50.6665,37.6043L 50.6665,38.7918L 30.0833,53.8333L 30.0833,22.1667 Z "/>
</Canvas>
The goal is to only display the icon for 'play' on movies. I've set the PlayVisible to return the proper visibility for movies, and not for other files. Yet, it is only displaying for the last movie. I've heard that this is the case for controls only able to have one parent. I've tried setting x:Shared="False" on the ViewBox, but to no avail.
The app works, but I've recently decided to add movies to the listing and want to display the play icon over their thumbnails, but not the other items. It seems simple on the outset, but I've yet to figure out what is needed.
Any help would be appreciated, otherwise I feel I may have to resort to overlaying the icon on the actual thumbnails of the movies.

It looks like the problem is not related to the Viewbox but the image resource appbar_control_play it references.
There is no need to add the Viewbox via a Control. Just add it directly to the DataTemplate.
Generally prefer a ContentControl over a templated Control if you wish to display content.
The x:Shared attribute is only required on a UIElement that is not part of a template but defined in a ResourceDictionary. For example, when you define the Viewbox in as a resource, you must set the x:Shared attribute to false. Otherwise it is only allowed to appear once in the visual tree.
In case the image resource is an image file, a proper DataTemplate could look as followed:
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel>
<Grid>
<Image Source="path to image" />
<Image Source="path to overlay icon"
Stretch="UniformToFill"
Width="50"
Height="50" />
</Grid>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
In case the icon is a XAML resource like a Geometry or a Segoe MDL2 Assets font icon, the DataTemplate should look as followed:
App.xaml
<Application.Resources>
<Viewbox x:Key="PlayIcon" x:Shared="False">
<TextBlock FontFamily="Segoe MDL2 Assets"
Text="" />
</Viewbox>
<Viewbox x:Key="appbar_control_play"
x:Shared="False">
<Path Width="20.5832"
Height="31.6667"
Stretch="Fill"
Fill="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestroType=ContentControl}, Path=For4ground}"
Data="F1 M 30.0833,22.1667L 50.6665,37.6043L 50.6665,38.7918L 30.0833,53.8333L 30.0833,22.1667 Z " />
</Viewbox>
</Application.Resources>
MyControl.xaml
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel>
<Grid>
<Image Source="path to image" />
<ContentControl Content="{StaticResource appbar_control_play}"
Width="50"
Height="50"
Foreground="Pink" />
</Grid>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>

Not sure what's happening on your side but the following just works:
<Window x:Class="abc.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:system="clr-namespace:System;assembly=System.Runtime"
mc:Ignorable="d"
Title="Window1">
<Grid>
<ListBox>
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<DataTemplate.Resources>
<BooleanToVisibilityConverter x:Key="BooleanToVisibilityConverter" />
</DataTemplate.Resources>
<Border Width="64" Height="64" BorderBrush="Red" BorderThickness="1">
<Grid>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalAlignment="Center" />
<Rectangle Fill="DeepSkyBlue"
HorizontalAlignment="Right"
VerticalAlignment="Bottom"
Margin="2"
Width="16"
Height="16"
Visibility="{Binding Converter={StaticResource BooleanToVisibilityConverter}}"
x:Name="Button" />
</Grid>
</Border>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<system:Boolean>True</system:Boolean>
<system:Boolean>False</system:Boolean>
<system:Boolean>True</system:Boolean>
<system:Boolean>False</system:Boolean>
<system:Boolean>True</system:Boolean>
<system:Boolean>False</system:Boolean>
</ListBox>
</Grid>
</Window>

WPF ItemsControl DataTemplate not shown on canvas

I'm currently working on a .NET 4.7.1 application. I use a XAML WPF UI. I need to show rectangles on a canvas according to the values in a list in the bound view model.
I can show a static rectangle on my canvas, nevertheless I don't know how to show the rectangles from the ItemsControl DataTemplate.
Also, I need to use a certain style for my rectangles. I defined the style in the Canvas.Resources for now.
My current coding looks like this:
<Canvas x:Name="canvas" Grid.Row="2" ClipToBounds="True" Background="Gainsboro">
<Canvas.Resources>
<Style TargetType="Rectangle">
<Setter Property="Fill">
<Setter.Value>
<DrawingBrush TileMode="Tile"
Viewport="0,0,2,5" ViewportUnits="Absolute"
Viewbox="0,0,2,30" ViewboxUnits="Absolute">
<DrawingBrush.Transform>
<RotateTransform Angle="45"/>
</DrawingBrush.Transform>
<DrawingBrush.Drawing>
<GeometryDrawing>
<GeometryDrawing.Pen>
<Pen Brush="Red" Thickness="10"/>
</GeometryDrawing.Pen>
<GeometryDrawing.Geometry>
<LineGeometry StartPoint="0,15" EndPoint="30,15"/>
</GeometryDrawing.Geometry>
</GeometryDrawing>
</DrawingBrush.Drawing>
</DrawingBrush>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</Canvas.Resources>
<!-- The static Rectangle works fine -->
<!--<Rectangle Width="100" Height="100" Canvas.Left="100" Canvas.Top="100"/>-->
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding RItems}">
<ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Rectangle Width="{Binding Width}" Height="{Binding Height}" Canvas.Left="{Binding Y}" Canvas.Right="{Binding X}"/>
</DataTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>
<Grid Width="{Binding ActualWidth, ElementName=canvas}" Height="{Binding ActualHeight, ElementName=canvas}">
<Label Content="Beginning" FontWeight="Bold" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Left">
<Label.LayoutTransform>
<RotateTransform Angle="270"/>
</Label.LayoutTransform>
</Label>
<Label Content="End" FontWeight="Bold" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Right">
<Label.LayoutTransform>
<RotateTransform Angle="270"/>
</Label.LayoutTransform>
</Label>
</Grid>
</Canvas>
My basic RItems collection in the View Model looks like this:
public List<RItem> RItems { get; set; } = new List<RItem>
{
new RItem
{
X = 100,
Y = 100,
Width = 100,
Height = 100
}
};
Do you know what I'm doing wrong? How can I show my RItem from the View Model class on the Canvas?
Thanks a lot!!

The canvas should be inside the itemscontrol as it's itemspanel.
Something very roughly like:
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding RItems}">
<ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<Canvas />
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
.....
</DataTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<ItemsControl.ItemContainerStyle>
<Style>
<Setter Property="Canvas.Left" Value="{Binding Left}" />
<Setter Property="Canvas.Top" Value="{Binding Top}" />
</Style>
</ItemsControl.ItemContainerStyle>
</ItemsControl>
Note also that each item goes inside a container and it is this which has to be positioned on the canvas.
I'm not sure why your grid is bound to the size of the canvas. Put the itemcontrol inside the grid and it'll fill the grid.

WP Horizontal Scrolling Grid Selection

I'm trying to create a scrollable gird, in my app i have a vertical scrolling listbox with text items as shown below.
<ListBox x:Name="selectionList" Margin="49,0,11,0" Padding="20,20,0,0" SelectionChanged="AlbumList_SelectionChanged" ItemsSource="{Binding ''}" Background="{x:Null}" Height="606" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="420">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding SlectionTitle}" FontSize="22" Margin="0,0,0,10" FontFamily="{StaticResource hevel}" Foreground="#FF99FFFF"/>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
So I Changed The TextBlock to this
<Border x:Name="Selection_List_Image" BorderBrush="#FFC4C3C3" BorderThickness="8" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="198" Margin="18,24,0,5" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="199" CornerRadius="12" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5" Padding="0">
<Border.Background>
<ImageBrush Stretch="Fill" ImageSource="{Binding SelectionArt}"/>
</Border.Background>
</Border>
This is fine for a single vertical scrolling list. I'm trying to get a grid that is for example permanently 4 images high and automatically wide, so if there are 4 images it shows a column of 4 if there are 8 images it shows 2 columns of 4 and so on
i have tried this example
WP7 - issues with Horizontal scrolling Listbox
but it just kept the list vertical and scrolled horizontal
any suggestions, thanks
// Solved
Thank you, i ended up having to use the example link aswel
<ListBox x:Name="AlbumList" Margin="49,0,11,0" ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"
ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled" SelectionChanged="AlbumList_SelectionChanged" ItemsSource="{Binding ''}" Background="{x:Null}" Height="748" >
<ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<toolkit:WrapPanel Orientation="Vertical" ></toolkit:WrapPanel>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Border x:Name="Album_List_Image" BorderBrush="#FFC4C3C3" BorderThickness="8" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="152" Margin="18,24,0,5" VerticalAlignment="Center" CornerRadius="12" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5" Padding="0" Width="152">
<Border.Background>
<ImageBrush Stretch="Fill" ImageSource="{Binding AlbumArt}"/>
</Border.Background>
</Border>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

If you're doing WP8.1 runtime you can easily do this by changing the <ItemsPanelTemplate> to a <WrapGrid> with Orientation set to Vertical and MaximumRowsOrColumns set to 4. Like so,
See MSDN WrapGrid (they actually do an example of what you want.. but in another Orientation)
<ListBox>
<ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<WrapGrid Orientation="Vertical" MaximumRowsOrColumns="4"/>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<!-- your data template -->
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
If you're doing this with WP8.0+ SL then it will be a tad bit harder. You will need the Windows Phone Toolkit and use a <WrapPanel> instead but you will need to Databind some values (or hardcode it...depending on how loose your ViewModel is)
<ListBox x:Name="myListBox" Height="412">
<ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<toolkit:WrapPanel Orientation="Vertical" ItemHeight="100" ItemWidth="100"></toolkit:WrapPanel>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<!-- your data template -->
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
In this example I hard coded each Item to be 100x100 and I hard coded the Height to be 412, thus making it have 4 items in the Vertical.
You can Databind the Height and ItemHeight and the ItemWidth if you choose to do so.

WPF: Set ListViewItem from textblock in the Listview within a DataTemplate

I have a Windows Phone 8.1 project with a ListView that has it's itemssource filled from c# code behind. It works but i end up with empty spaces between single line textblocks. I've tried setting heights on the textblock, a grid it sits within, the listview itself. I tried setting an ItemContainerStyle with binding the height to the height of the textblock but it doesn't work.
If I set the text of the TextBlock to the Actual Height binding I get 0 so I must be doing something wrong. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the height of the ListViewItems but since they are populated from code I can't figure out how to make them do what I want. I also tried switching to a ItemsControl for the list but it doesn't seem to scroll and work as well.
Here is the XAML of the Listview:
<ListView x:Name="TheList" IsHoldingEnabled="True"
ItemsSource="{Binding items}"
Loaded="WhenListViewBaseLoaded"
ContinuumNavigationTransitionInfo.ExitElementContainer="True"
IsItemClickEnabled="True">
<ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
<Style TargetType="ListViewItem">
<Setter Property="Height" Value="{Binding ElementName=txtBibleText, Path=ActualHeight}"/>
</Style>
</ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
<ListView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid x:Name="ItemTemplateGrid" Holding="ListViewItem_Holding" Background="Blue">
<FlyoutBase.AttachedFlyout>
<MenuFlyout>
<MenuFlyoutItem Text="Share"
Click="ShareFlyoutItem_Click" />
<MenuFlyoutItem Text="Add to Sharing"
Click="AddSharingFlyoutItem_Click" />
</MenuFlyout>
</FlyoutBase.AttachedFlyout>
<Grid x:Name="gridText">
<TextBlock x:Name="txtBibleText"
FontSize="{Binding TheFontSize}"
Grid.Column="1"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
Margin="0,0,0,0" FontFamily="Global User Interface">
<Run Text="{Binding VerseNumber}"/>
<Run Text="{Binding BibleText}"/>
</TextBlock>
</Grid>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</ListView.ItemTemplate>
</ListView>
Code behind that populates the ListView:
XDocument loadedData = XDocument.Load(TranlationFilePath);
var data = from query in loadedData.Descendants("testament").Descendants("book").Descendants("chapter").Descendants("verse")
where (string)query.Parent.Parent.Parent.Attribute("name") == GetTestament
where (string)query.Parent.Parent.Attribute("name") == GetBibleBook
where (string)query.Parent.Attribute("number") == GetChapter
select new BibleLoad
{
VerseNumber = (string)query.Attribute("number"),
BibleText = (string)query.Value.ToString(),
TheFontSize = FontSize
};
TheList.ItemsSource = data;
Thank you for your time. This is my first time posting a question so hopefully I did it right. I have searched and searched and experimented for quite awhile.
After editing the XML and making a record short.
With turning off the text wrapping.
With wrapping back on, height set to 20 and minheight set to 31.
MinHeight to 20 wrapping on:

The extra space comes from the ListViewItem template for the ItemContainerStyle. The default template includes space not only for the ItemTemplate but also for adornments such as checkboxes used to mark selection. Note the CheckboxContainers' Rectangle's Height of 25.5 and the SelectedCheckMark's Height of 34.
<Grid x:Name="CheckboxContainer">
<Grid.RenderTransform>
<TranslateTransform x:Name="CheckboxContainerTranslateTransform" X="{ThemeResource ListViewItemContentOffsetX}"/>
</Grid.RenderTransform>
<Rectangle x:Name="NormalRectangle" Fill="{ThemeResource CheckBoxBackgroundThemeBrush}" Height="25.5" Stroke="{ThemeResource CheckBoxBorderThemeBrush}" StrokeThickness="{ThemeResource CheckBoxBorderThemeThickness}" Width="25.5"/>
<Path x:Name="CheckGlyph" Data="M0,123 L39,93 L124,164 L256,18 L295,49 L124,240 z" Fill="{ThemeResource CheckBoxForegroundThemeBrush}" FlowDirection="LeftToRight" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Height="17" IsHitTestVisible="False" Opacity="0" Stretch="Fill" StrokeThickness="2.5" StrokeLineJoin="Round" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="18.5"/>
</Grid>
and
<Border x:Name="SelectedBorder" BorderBrush="{ThemeResource ListViewItemSelectedBackgroundThemeBrush}" BorderThickness="{ThemeResource GridViewItemMultiselectBorderThickness}" IsHitTestVisible="False" Opacity="0">
<Grid x:Name="SelectedCheckMark" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Height="34" Opacity="0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="34">
<Path x:Name="SelectedEarmark" Data="M0,0 L40,0 L40,40 z" Fill="{ThemeResource ListViewItemSelectedBackgroundThemeBrush}" Stretch="Fill"/>
<Path x:Name="SelectedGlyph" Data="M0,123 L39,93 L124,164 L256,18 L295,49 L124,240 z" Fill="{ThemeResource ListViewItemCheckThemeBrush}" FlowDirection="LeftToRight" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Height="14.5" Margin="0,1,1,0" Stretch="Fill" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="17"/>
</Grid>
</Border>
If you don't need the selection behavior you can strip the ItemContainerStyle to just the pieces you need so it doesn't have to make space for adornments that aren't relevant to your app. If you do need selection you can move or resize the selection checks so they'll fit with your design.
You can generate the default ItemContainerStyle template by selecting your ListView in the designer, right clicking and chosing Edit Additional Templates.Edit Generated Item Container (ItemContainerStyle) Edit a copy...
You can then edit down the adornment Heights as needed.

Why are you trying to set minheight or height? try giving a font size and it will adjust the height itself keep the textwrapping=wrap... and another thing why are you setting grid.colum=1? ..you have only 1 column.

Grid with an image, textblock, and rectangle, inside a listbox not showing up exactly right

So I have this Xaml inside a ListBox Item Template:
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid Height="22" Width="Auto">
<Image Margin="-2,0,0,0" Source="{Binding Path=ADsPath, Converter={StaticResource ImxConverter}}" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="22" />
<TextBlock Margin="20,3,0,0" Text="{Binding Path=DisplayValue}" Width="Auto" />
<Rectangle Fill="White" Stroke="White" Margin="-2,0,-2,0.5" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Height="1" Width="Auto" />
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
The idea is that the rectangle, provides a thin white line across the bottom of the entire ListBox Item; however, with the Xaml above, it only extends as long as the text, not to the full width of the ListBox.

Setting your width to Auto basically tells it to only be large enough to fit everything inside. I think you need to set your Grid's HorizontalAlignment to Stretch for it to work properly.
Edit:
I did a small sample app. Here's how I would do what you are trying to do:
On your actual listbox, I would have the HorizontalContentAlignment property set to Stretch
and
I would change your Grid to a DockPanel:
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<DockPanel Height="22" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<Rectangle Fill="White" Stroke="White" Margin="-2,0,-2,0.5" DockPanel.Dock="Bottom" Height="1"/>
<Image Margin="-2,0,0,0" Height="20" DockPanel.Dock="Left" Width="22" />
<TextBlock Margin="20,3,0,0" Text="Daniel Manning" DockPanel.Dock="Left"/>
</DockPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>

Have you tried removing Width="Auto"? Auto is saying "only make me as big as I need to be" which, in your case, is determined by the length of the text. The default is "Stretch" which means "hey container, do me a favor and make me as wide as you are".