Find actual position of an element in WrapPanel - c#

I have a WrapPanel and three buttons on it. the third button in WrapPanel is in second line.
I want to find the real psotion of button4.
<WrapPanel Height="100" Width="200">
<Button Content="Button" Height="23" Name="button2" Width="75" />
<Button Content="Button" Height="23" Name="button3" Width="75" />
<Button Content="Button" Height="23" Name="button4" Width="75" />
</WrapPanel>
I use this code but it is 0 because margin is 0.
int top = button4.Margin.Top //I want in this case top become 23 but it is 0.

To find the button position in the WrapPanel, you should use TransformToAncestor (msnd)
Point currentPoint = button4.TransformToAncestor(myWrapPanel).Transform(new Point(0, 0));
Where myWrapPanel is your WrapPanel.

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I have a simple WPF application
<Grid>
<Border BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1"
HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="388" Margin="10,10,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="329"/>
<Image x:Name="PreviewImg" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="400" Margin="10,10,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="329" MouseDown="PreviewImgMouse" AllowDrop="True" PreviewMouseWheel="PreviewImg_PreviewMouseWheel" MouseEnter="Entered" Focusable="True"></Image>
<Label Content="Matched Products" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="344,10,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="290"/>
<Label Content="Unknown Products" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="661,10,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="290"/>
<TextBlock x:Name="MatchedProducts" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="349,36,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="TextBlock" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="362" Width="295"/>
<TextBlock x:Name="UnknownProducts" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="666,36,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="TextBlock" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="362" Width="295"/>
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="50" Margin="10,410,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="957">
<Button x:Name="FinalizeBtn" Content="Finalize" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="826,10,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="120" Height="30"/>
<Button x:Name="NewEntryBtn" Content="Create new entry" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="701,10,0,0"
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<Button x:Name="FreeBtn" Content="Free Button" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="576,10,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="120" Height="30"/>
</Grid>
</Grid>
All the events defined under the Image component are not firing, I tried all of googles first page searches, but none of them work.
I read about the difference of Routed events in my application both MouseDown and PreviewMouseDown should work.
The only thing that can block the image is Border component, but I did try without it and still nothing, and since it is declared first the image should overlay it...?
All function names are correct since they were automatically generated.
I can paste in the .cs file if it can help.
Thanks
E1: Somehow it works now, but I have no idea what fixed it...
One change I did was mode the image inside the border:
<Border BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="388" Margin="10,10,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="329">
<Image x:Name="PreviewImg" Height="400" Margin="0" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Width="329" MouseDown="PreviewImgMouse" AllowDrop="True" PreviewMouseWheel="PreviewImg_PreviewMouseWheel" MouseEnter="Entered" Focusable="True"/>
</Border>
But I can't image that this fixed it.
You need to define a source for your image like <Image Source="image.jpg". Without the image the events will not fire.
For advanced users
Use a Button styled as an Image, see #Richard's answer with WPF Image Control with Click event
For beginners
The Image component needs a source to fire events as posted by #Örvar. Adding a transparent source is the solution, although a hacky one.
One way of achieving what you want is to place the image in a button and removing the button styles. There is an excellent example here:
WPF Image Control with Click Event

The objects inside the xaml form are being scrambled (resized or hidden) after resizing main window?

I have a problem in resizing the main window of my app.xaml form: after resizing it, the objects (buttons,combo boxes, textboxes, etc) inside the form are being resized, hidden or moved to another place in the form. I just want to resize the main window not the other objects. in the other words, I want to unlink these two (main window & other objects) from each other. after doing that, I can resize main window and then, manually move the objects to their new place in the form. the code of the form is given below.
<Window x:Class="WPFClient.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Window1" Height="550" Width="834" MaxHeight="550" MaxWidth="834" MinHeight="550" MinWidth="834">
<Grid>
<Grid.Background>
<LinearGradientBrush>
<GradientStop Color="LightSlateGray" Offset="0"/>
<GradientStop Color="White" Offset="0.5"/>
<GradientStop Color="LightSlateGray" Offset="0.9"/>
</LinearGradientBrush>
</Grid.Background>
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<TextBox x:Name="loginTxtBoxUName" Height="23" Margin="277,200,313,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
<Label x:Name="loginLabelIP" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="179,232,0,255" Width="70">Service IP:</Label>
<TextBox x:Name="loginTxtBoxIP" Margin="277,232,313,0" Text="41.235.135.104" Height="23" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
<Button x:Name="loginButtonConnect" Background="Transparent" Margin="277,0,313,222" Click="buttonConnect_Click" Height="23" VerticalAlignment="Bottom">Connect</Button>
<Label x:Name="loginLabelStatus" Height="44" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" FontFamily="Jokerman" FontSize="20" Foreground="White" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Width="167" Margin="0,0,40,71">Offline</Label>
<ComboBox x:Name="loginComboBoxImgs" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,200,197,222" Width="98" Background="Transparent" />
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<Polyline x:Name="loginPolyLine" StrokeThickness="2" Stroke="White" Points="140,90 140,300 700,300 700,90 140,90" Margin="-9,42,116,165" />
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Margin="277,232,313,0"
These margins are relative to the parent Grid. So the code above says:
Place the element 277 from the left, 232 from the top, 313 from the right and 0 from the bottom.
Therefore, when the Grid gets resized, these margins will be recalculated, and thus, screw up the positioning of the elements.
To combat this, you should look into using relative positioning. There is already an answer to this question here.
I found a simple solution.when I select an object like button or ..., a small link icon(similar to above Hyperlink icon) appears on each edge of the object (or on grids around it). by clicking on these icons, you can change them into Unlinked or Linked situation. now when you want to resize the main window, you should do the following:
1. move all the objects to the new place you want in the form.
2. select the objects one after another and click on link icon at the side that you want to decrease the main window's width or height from that side.for example, if you want to decrease the width/height of the window from right/down side, you should unlink every "right/down" side link icon.
3. resize the width or height of main window by dragging its edge according to the 2nd step example. you can see that resizing window does not affect other objects at all.

How to be able to have a two line text on Button content WPF ? And be able to click on text and activate Button1_click

The code is shown below. When I try to click on the middle of the button you are actually clicking the TextBlock and not triggering the Button2_click event. Only if you click outside of the TextBlock and still inside of the Button it would trigger the event.
What is the right way of having a two line text inside the content of the Button.I'm a new on StackOverFlow so I don't have enough reputation to add a picture. Please some Help with this question. Thanks for the Help in Advance.
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Put your TextBlock inside your button:
<Button HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="70,136,0,0" Name="Button2" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<TextBlock Padding="2" FontSize="16" TextWrapping="NoWrap" Foreground="#FF8787DB" FontWeight="Bold">
Calculate CTR Losses
<LineBreak />
(From FTD Data)
</TextBlock>
</Button>
This will implicitly set Button.Content, it's an equivalent of:
<Button HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="70,136,0,0" Name="Button2" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<Button.Content>
<TextBlock Padding="2" FontSize="16" TextWrapping="NoWrap" Foreground="#FF8787DB" FontWeight="Bold">
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<LineBreak />
(From FTD Data)
</TextBlock>
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Your original code overlays the TextBlock over the button, so both of these elements aren't related.

Source information is missing from the debug information

What i want to do is to add event handlers to the controls inside canvasBackground so i could move all its child elements to different window location using mouse dragging.
But when it starts looping through each Controls in foreach loop, it throws an exception:
XamlParseException occurred The invocation of the constructor on type "AgentWindow.xaml"
that matches the specified binding constraints threw an exception. Line number '3' and line position '9'.
Source information is missing from the debug information for this module
AgentWindow.xaml.cs:
public AgentWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
foreach (Control control in canvasBackground.Children)
{
control.PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown += this.MouseLeftButtonDown;
control.PreviewMouseMove += this.MouseMove;
control.PreviewMouseLeftButtonUp += this.PreviewMouseLeftButtonUp;
}
}
AgentWindow.xaml:
<Canvas x:Name="canvasBackground">
<Canvas Background="Black" Canvas.Right="10" Canvas.Top="10" Height="200" Width="153">
<Button x:Name="btnF1" Content="f1" Height="56" Width="60" Margin="10,12,79,132" Background="#DDD"></Button>
<Button x:Name="btnF2" Content="f2" Height="56" Width="60" Margin="80,12,9,132" Background="#DDD"/>
<Button x:Name="btnF3" Content="f3" Height="56" Width="60" Margin="10,73,79,71" Background="#DDD"></Button>
<Button x:Name="btnF4" Content="f4" Height="56" Width="60" Margin="80,73,9,71" Background="#DDD"></Button>
<Button x:Name="btnF5" Content="f5" Height="56" Width="60" Margin="10,134,79,10" Background="#DDD"></Button>
<Button x:Name="btnF6" Content="f6" Height="56" Width="60" Margin="80,134,9,10" Background="#DDD"></Button>
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<Button x:Name="btnSomeButton" Content="someb" Height="56" Width="60"
Background="#FFFBFBFB" Canvas.Left="292" Canvas.Top="193"/>
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All this started when i changed GroupBox to Canvas. I did that because i couldn't figure out how to access those buttons inside GroupBox... I'm new to wpf so please be gentle. :)
Canvas is not a Control. Also Children is UIElementCollection so you should loop over UIElement and not Control.
foreach (UIElement control in canvasBackground.Children)
{
....
}
On a side note this loop will hook mouse events on child Canvas and button, not on inner buttons. If you want to do for inner buttons, you have to loop over child of inner canvas as well.
Anyhow, you can use XAML only to hook events. Hook on parent element itself.
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PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown="MouseLeftButtonDown"
PreviewMouseMove="MouseMove"
PreviewMouseLeftButtonUp="PreviewMouseLeftButtonUp">
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<Button x:Name="btnF1"/>
<Button x:Name="btnF2"/>
<Button x:Name="btnF3"/>
<Button x:Name="btnF4"/>
<Button x:Name="btnF5"/>
<Button x:Name="btnF6"/>
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I am using WPF and DevExpress. I want to add two buttons in dock panel. As I added 2nd button it said: Content is set more than once. Why is it so ? Did I made any mistake or is dock panel doesn't allow this.
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<dxdo:LayoutGroup Caption="LayoutRoot" Margin="0,0,0,172">
<dxdo:LayoutGroup Orientation="Vertical">
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</dxdo:LayoutGroup>
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You can place more than one control into the LayoutPanel.Content property. Just wrap your buttons into panel:
<dxdo:LayoutPanel ... >
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
<Button x:Name="button1" ... />
<Button x:Name="button2" ... />
</StackPanel>
</dxdo:LayoutPanel>
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