I need to show and hide various buttons that are all on the ribbonbar in designer.
Depending on what the user has selected on the form at the time depends on what i want to show/hide.
I cannot figure out how to get the ribbon to refresh properly, showing both the new button (without scrolling mouse over the new button) and resizing (width ways) to allow the new button to fit properly.
i have looked all over the web for other questions that answer this, and asked devcomponents forums, (still waiting on response from that)
I have figured out what works for this.
ribbon.Refresh()
'refresh size of ribbonPanel1, barlayout for the show/hide of miRoom
RibbonPanel1.PerformLayout()
ribbon.PerformLayout()
my button was within RibbonPanel1, and this was shown by a tabItem on the ribbon, the RibbonPanel1 was also on the ribbon (as otherwise it wont show)
Here is the KB article which covers working from code and other details: http://www.devcomponents.com/kb2/?p=472
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I have made a custom MessageBox for my application and it launches as a UserControl. I have two buttons inside it and I would like to allow users to press Tab to switch between Buttons. However, since it's a UserControl overlaying the content, Pressing tab more than twice makes the focus go in the background on elements that aren't supposed to be tabbed at.
I can't figure out a good idea how to prevent this, I've thought of making a method that will select all elements and make their IsTabStop values to false and then restore them later, but I think that would be more of a problem then a solution.
Is there a way around this to limit tabbing only to the UserControl?
I would also appreciate advice on working with the message box.. the whole messagebox is an async function that has an infinitive loop until the answer is given. Is there another way to stop the application until one of the message box options was selected?
Crowcoder's reference has lead to correct MSDN page where I found my solution:
dialog = new UCMessageBox("Are you sure you want to exit the application?", MBType.YesNo);
AppMessageBox.Children.Add(dialog);
KeyboardNavigation.SetTabNavigation(dialog, KeyboardNavigationMode.Cycle);
The key was to call .SetTabNavigation function and direct it to my dialog (custom UserControl for the message box) and setting the KeyboardNavigationMode to Cycle.
After closing the UC rest of the application continued normally regarding navigation.
I have a GMap.NET control on my main form, and then I have a second form that will show when the user clicks on a button. The problem is, that when the user leaves the second window and hovers over the GMap control from the main form, the main form comes to the front. This does not happen when i hover over the rest of the main window with the second window on the front. Also I have another form that will show while the program searches for some data, and this one will also disappear when the user hovers over the map.
I hope I explained it well enough, basically when I hover over the map the main window comes to the front. And it does only happen when there is another form of my project in front of it, not when there is any other window like firefox or something in the front.
So my question is: why does this happen and can I change this behavior? Is it a standard of the GMap.NET control? I am using the Version 1.7.0.0 control btw.
you must use
GMap1.DisableFocusOnMouseEnter = true;
i added this code to my program and problem solved.
It would help to see some code as to how you are showing the forms, but it sounds like you are doing something like secondwindow.Show() instead of secondwindow.ShowDialog(), and then an event from GMap for OnEnter is doing a Focus().
Then, when you have the "other form" in front of it, it's opened in a way that will restrict access to the parent form (ShowDialog(), etc).
I want to create simple wizard with 3 pages
Page 1 have just next button
Page 2 have next and previous
Page 3 have previous and finish
I have created the pages and add to them needed buttons and in the events I have call to the next pages, for instance in page one in the button click I added the following code
private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
p2 = new Page2();
NavigationService.Navigate(p2);
}
In the main window cs I have changed the inheritance to NavigationWindow instead of Window and in the xaml also. Currently its working but I have 3 questions.
The pages which displayed is part of the main window, how can i avoid it, since when I run it the buttons place is not like I put in the designer? It was changed.
The button currently in the Grid, should I put them in different control (the button place should be like any wizard in the left buttom of the page) ?
How can I avoid the navigation arrows in the page right upper screen?
Thanks!
To answer your questsions in reverse,
3. How can I avoid the navigation arrows in the page upper right screen?
I have an opensource library http://winchrome.codeplex.com/ that re-styles navigation windows in several ways. For example these are all NavigationWindow s
In short you just style the NavigationWindow to only show the parts you want.
2.The button currently in the Grid, should I put them in different control (the button place should be like any wizard in the left buttom of the page) ?
If you look at the styles from WinChrome then you will see that it is just a case of rebuiliding the UI as you want and providing a ContentPresenter to hold your pages. e.g. the VS2012 style applies lots of styles on the window but avoids adding back and forward buttons., whereas the Win7 style rebuilds the back and forwards in a Win7 Style.
If you do this however you will need a means of passing your enabled or visible states to the buttons outside the pages. Take a look at http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/8197/Designer-centric-Wizard-control for how to do this in Winforms. In WPF you could either derive from your Pages to create WizardPage classes with CanBack, CanNext or IsFinish properties, or alteratively define attached properties to do the same (There are examples of how to do this in VS2012.cs where we define the glow color)
And finally
1. The pages which displayed is part of the main window, how can i avoid it, since when I run it the buttons place is not like I put in the designer? It was changed.
I'd need to see some code to comment on how you've done it, but if you look at any of the demo programs in WinChrome then you can see how I've done it without problems.
Good luck!
I want to preface this by saying I'm a noob with WPF/.net programming.
Here is my question that requires a bit of guidance. I have a window and I load pages in and out as my navigation. On one particular page, when the user clicks on one of the items (button for example), I need to display a small form to gather more information. I'm not sure what the best approach is... what I would love (but do not know where to begin even searching for this solution) would be to open a popup balloon style window with a few textboxes and a submit button.
Other options I've explored would be to use a separate page. Save off the current page and load a new page with these textboxes and a submit button. Or to use a custom messagebox instead (least favorite option).
I would like this new extra info page to blend in with rest of the app so that the main page is still visible in the background. Any suggestions??
You can use WPF's Popup control
<Popup>
<!-- Your Content Here -->
</Popup>
Personally I have issues with WPF's Popup, so have my own custom UserControl that works like a Popup.
I ended up using modal window (ShowDialog) method for this.
Did anyone ever try to create a jQuery "LightBox"-Like "Popup" (WPF UserControl) for displaying Images?
See this page for an example: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
Thanks!
Here is a site that appears to have done it, but it is only version 0.5 and might change dramatically before 1.0:
http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/#
This should be what you're looking for, and here is a sample of their code to implement:
$(function() {
$('#gallery a').lightBox({fixedNavigation:true});
});
I hope this helps,
Thanks!
EDIT:
Sorry that I didn't fully understand what you ment in version one of your question. Here is an updated answer (with code / source) to your question.
First I created a control that will act as a modal dialog box that grays everything out in the background. Then I added the ability to put a picture in there, with added ability to have a comment with each picture. Here are images of the final product:
First Image Loaded:
First Image Loaded http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/8941/firstpictureopen.jpg
Second Image Fading In:
Second Image Fading In http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/3172/secondpicturefading.jpg
Second Image Loaded:
Second Image Loaded http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/5404/secondpictureopen.jpg
I also added animations to resize the images like the Lightbox project does. I added the ability to have a forward and back buttons, accelerator keys, forward and back arrow control, and escape to exit. I think I've captured what you're looking for in this control.
As usual, I've uploaded the full source code to Google Code for your download.
The direct link to the zip file is here:
http://stackoverflow-answers-by-scott.googlecode.com/files/1755872.zip
I hope this helps,
Thanks!
Duplicating the functionality you linked to is absolutely trivial in WPF. Just:
Create a UserControl with a single ItemList property of type IEnumerable<ImageSource>
Add a Popup to the UserControl
Add a Grid to the Popup that lays out the LightBox the way you want, including panels for the Image, TextBlock, and Button
Add a StoryBoard that is triggered by the Loaded event that animates the changes.
Use an EventTrigger to set the Popup's IsOpen property to false when the button is clicked
Bind the Image.Source to {Binding ItemList/} to show the current item in the ItemList
Add a Background="Transparent" rectangle to each side of the Grid that runs code-behind to change the current item in ItemList
Optionally also repeat the BeginStoryboard when changing the current item