How is following dialog box designed, sorry But I am no gui developer but with some initial help I can do this. What I want is tree view is attached to right pane and how it change with selection in the tree view and the lower text also change with each selection.
Any starting point would be helpful.
Pure guessing so maybe it's not entirely correct:
Pardon the cheesy colors, I don't know why I did this...
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I have a wpf grid setup where I have two custom buttons that are next to each other. First picture is how the design window looks like, however, functionally, it looks like the second picture. I want them to function like the grid doesn't block them (closely resembling the first picture.)
The current xml I have is based on this MSDM which is very basic.
I do not know how to proceed. Do I have to use a different control panel/container or is there a setting to allowed them to extend passed the grid if the other button isn't above it (like zpanel?)
E: I couldn't find any other questions for this, so please link to any searches/posts with information on it.
Turns out I can use canvas and just do a bit more xml to keep the design the same. I would still like to know if it is possible to overlap them in any way for future use.
I don't know if it is okay to ask it here but i hope i can get a good response.
I just want to align the button OK in the right side and also i already change the properties of it to right from default but still when i run my project it stay always in the left side. Did i miss something? Or is there any better way to align my button inside popup menu? can someone help me please.
this is the current output when i run my system.
and you can see that the button okay still in the left side.
Actually there is an TextOptions.HAlignment property which is used by BarButtonItem.Appearance, BarButtonItem.ItemAppearance and BarButtonItem.ItemInMenuAppearance and has values Far,Center,Near. Still, it is not supported in all cases (as it is referred in Note section of the link) and I'm afraid the popupmenu is one of them, because it cannot be found in Designer, you can access it only by code. Also all my tries to change the value of property had no effect in caption alignment. My proposal is to add empty space in your caption in order to bring it to center, supposed your menu width will stay the same
Sorry but I am a newbie to WPF, I would really appreciate if you could help me-
Tag 1 in pic- Which control can I use to create a menu similar to that in the picture ? The closest I came was using a gridview within a listview but that ends up using a header for the gridview. Normal listview just highlights the entire strip and doesn't look good at all.
Tag 2 in pic // (No longer relevant, sorry)
Edit:
Looking for something simple like when using gridview with listview (as in pic below) there is automatically that standard window gradient & bevel effect etc. (As an idea, implementing it with buttons seems to cumbersome, first strip button border, then create all these effects.) So essentially anything already inbuilt in WPF.
Thanks for any help :-D !!!
ListBox or ListView are good controls to use. If it's just the 'pretty' factor you don't like, you can provide Templates to change the appearance. But functionally, ListBox and ListView provide the function of that menu.
When working with WPF, that should be your primary motivation when choose controls. What FUNCTIONS the way you want. You can always make it LOOK different with Templates, but getting the right FUNCTION is the primary goal for the control.
I have what I consider to be a pretty unique problem here, and no idea how to implement. From what I've seen, there is no documentation, tutorials, samples and/or articles on this. I've spent weeks researching, with nothing to show.
The problem:
I need the user to be able to select the contents of a Label Control at runtime, and edit it.
If this can be done by extending the existing Label control, great! Or, if this requires a whole new Label Control to be created, fine. So be it.
Using a TextBox is not an option I'm afraid.
Any help at all is greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
jase
If it's just because a look & feel issue you can make a TextBox control look the same as a label would looks like (just guessing since I can't imagine any reason for not using a TextBox).
Could you pop up a window with a text box in it and then have them edit it there, then set the text property of the label based on the edited text box or do you need to edit it in place? You can set the label text at runtime, but for user input you will have to use a text box.
I have a form which has a Combo Box Control. I have selected the drop down style property to DropDown. I have also set the DropDown Width to 250.
I have set the auto complete mode to suggest and the auto complete source to listitems.
it works absolutely fine when i click on the drop down. but when i type in somethin, the auto complete mode activates a drop down which has a small width.
any help appreciate.
i wanna know how to increase the width of the auto complete drop down via code so that the list items are viewed properly.
I am using C#
Yes, this is by design. ComboBox uses the SHAutoComplete API function to implement the autocomplete feature. Note the declaration, the function takes a handle to the text box portion of the ComboBox. As such, it has no idea that it is actually providing autocomplete info for a ComboBox instead of a TextBox. Accordingly, there is nothing it can do to compensate for the non-standard dropdown width you use.
Well, that explains why it doesn't work. Fixing it is technically possible but quite ugly. You would have to run code in the KeyUp event and use EnumTheadWindows() to find the autocomplete window handle. Then you can use SetWindowPos() to make it larger. There is already code similar to this in ComboBox.cs (AutoCompleteDropDownFinder.FindDropDowns), use the Reference Source or Reflector to help you get this right. Good luck!
EDIT:
I removed my first suggestion to come up with a new link:
Actually its possible to control the width of the Autocomplete dropdown box, but its a little bit tricky and involves using win API extensively ...
Combobox too small when doing Suggest
Maybe this article that I wrote on Codeproject might help you in relation to the combo-dropdown boxes and a way that I hacked this...