In the form pictured below, the entire content of the right side changes when an item is selected on the left side. Which control can I use to accomplish this effect? I’ve tried a ListBox if anyone can put the code or the design tools .
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The left side is most likely a Win32 TreeView control. The pane on the right is almost certainly a ListView control.
There's really nothing that will automatically swap the views out when you click on the tree control. You'll have to write you own code to toggle the main pane's view based on the item selected in the tree.
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I currently have an application that uses a ToggleButton/Popup feature and it all works as expected, but I wanted to see if there's a way (either through control templates or custom controls) that allows the toggle button to be included as part of the popup window.
The effect I'm going for is similar to the standard TabControl/TabItem layout but instead the ToggleButton would replace the header of the TabItem and the Popup would serve as it's content.
In the end, I want to have the Popup window display to the immediate right side of the ToggleButton and have one continuous border that wraps around the outside edges of the ToggleButton and the outside edges of the Popup window with no border inbetween. The final appearance would show no separation between the two controls, and the user would perceive the ToggleButton and the Popup as a single control object.
I was thinking it might be possible to edit a template of a standard TabItem and have it's content property display as a popup, but haven't tried it yet.
Let me know if you think this is the way to go or if there's any other potential solutions. Thanks.
Almost everything in WPF can be done in multiple ways. The same is true with your goal.
If you plan on reusing this control in multiple places, I would suggest building it as a custom control. I build custom controls and UI libraries for a living, so I am a bit biased.
I would build a custom control that inherits from HeaderedContentControl. The Header property is the content of your ToggleButton, and the Content property would be the content of your Popup. Since you own the ControlTemplate and code, you can make it look and function exactly how you need it to with no compromises.
I am trying to achieve this look&feel in WPF.
It basically acts like a TabControl, with the tabs on the left (vertically)
The right side of the window completely changes depending on which item you have clicked on the left "nav bar":
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What I did:
I started doing a Custom Control. A grid with two columns, a StackPanel in the left column in which there will be a clickable button/label for every menu entry (vertically of course). A Property MenuEntries which is a List<string>.
How do I get the control to add a "tabpage" (a grid/canvas?) programmatically for every MenuEntry the user adds at design time?
How can I achieve the behavior of the TabControl during design time, i.e. the content on the right side changes as soon as the user clicks an item on the left (in the designer/editor)? (kind of like the TabControl itself?)
Is this the right approach or would you do that completely differently?
Yes, you can use TabControl for that, just set TabStripPlacement="Left", (some more details)
The whole rest: colors, margins etc is set via styles.
Also, to save you a lot of trouble, use MVVM (with some framework for WPF) for that. Set ViewModel collection as ItemsSource for the TabControl.
Then, when you select one of the tabs, the control will display the view for the selected VM.
DO NOT set TabItems in xaml for each tab, this is wrong way to go in the long run.
I'm styling WPF's Calendar control and I've reached a point in XAML where there's a grid with no elements in it, just divided by rows and columns where the day numbers are.
I've snooped and decompiled (void PopulateGrids()) and have learned that in code-behind the Calendar is creating CalendarDayButton and feeding it to the grid.
I need to change the style/theme in-order to change the colors (of those CalendarDayButton) and I'm not sure how to do that.
I've tried applying a style to all CalendarDayButton in said grid, but that didn't work.
Any suggestions?
P.S. I'd rather stay away from code-behind because what I'm working on is a style in a resource-dictionary and not a user-control.
Go to the Microsoft page for Calendar Styles and Templates, copy the style code into your resources block and make changes as needed. If you need to create additional properties for settings etc then you can do so with an attached property, that way you don't need to create a new calandar control. If you're having difficulty figuring out which parts of the template correspond to things you're seeing on-screen then put a breakpoint in your code somewhere, add the calandar control variable name to your watch window and click on the little magnifying glass to bring up the WPF visualizer...that will let you traverse the visual tree and visually see which part of the control each section is rendering.
I am re-designing some GUI items and want to implement something like the following:
As you change options in the TreeView on the left, the controls on the right change according to the option selected.
My question is, what is the best way to implement this? I was thinking of setting the visible property to true / false for each control to it's respective TreeView option selection; however, designing this on the VS GUI editor would be pretty painful as there would be hundreds of controls all over the place and on top of each other.
User controls. Create the blocks you have outlined in red as user controls and add/remove as you select/change node in the treeview.
If you want a "buffer" effect to avoid flicker when removing an existing control, then use a tab control with two pages (without showing the tabs.) Start with showing TAB1 then when selecting a node in the treeview add the correct control to TAB2 and then make TAB2 the active page. And then remove any existing controls from TAB1. And then the other way around when the next node is selected. etc etc.
I'm working on a custom user control that essentially displays a name value pair (name is on a black background, value on a white). I have my control displaying correctly, even showing up in Designer and on my build page.
What I'd like to do from here is have the ability to right click on the user control and have a menu come up that has a "Copy Value" option, that when selected will copy the value in the "value" part of the user control to the clipboard. What is the best method of approach?
I'm not sure where to start since most of the documentation on user controls I've found deals with displaying the control, not necessarily interacting with it. Additionally, since I'm still learning C#, I might have left out an important part of my problem in this question, so please point that out if it's the case.
I'm using Visual Studio 2008 (if that matters).
Examine the ContextMenu control and the ContextMenu property of other controls. By assigning a ContextMenu control to the ContextMeny property of another control, you will have the right-click->popup menu wiring done for you. Then you only need to implement the click event of the different menu items in the context menu.
Then you can use the Clipboard.SetText (as suggested by BFree) to set the desired value to the clipboard.
Add a ContextMenu to the control. The, hook into the MouseClick (or MouseDown, whichever works better) event and if it's a Right-Click, then call show on the ContextMenu (there are a few overloads, try to mess with them see which works best for you). Then, in the click event of your context menu, just call Clipboard.SetText(...) to set the value to the clipboard.