I am developing a small appplication which is single windowed...
I have formated everything with care .. The window contains a grid which has 2 columns.. The second is auto and the first is of type *.(takes the remaining space)
Is there a way to change the content of the first column ?(to display a chart for example)
The only solution i can think is a tabcontrol with invisible tabs to switch programmatically, or create a custom user control and place it somehow..but the last solution i think sucks because the content i want to display isnt just a user control..
In java i could do this very easilly,is there any solution here?(i dont want to mess the design view!)
You could
put a <ContentControl> in XAML where you want to exchange contents.
give it a name (x:Name)
Now you can target the control. It supports IAddChild such that you can attach any child object to be displayed.
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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":
Oculus UI
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.
He I am a beginner to C# and I am working on a reaction manager plug-in for some bigger project. (Yes I am a intern)
Now I just can't find a way to create a view similar to this:
My full design:
How to realize this design? I cant find any default templates in the devexpress which are suitable for this. I come from php and in php I can use html. I am a beginner to C# and I don't have any clue on how t do this. Do I have to use canvas to literally draw this? OR is there a standard template I can use for this purpose.
You have many comment boxes that contain the same layout - a label comment text, author name, date, etc. There is no control that lays things out like that, you will have to make your own custom control (Project->Add User Control). This control will be a composite control - ie made up of other controls. Probably a label for each text field (comment, author, date, etc) laid out in the right places. Maybe call it CommentBox or something.
Then in the main form you now have available CommentBox controls which you can add to the form. Create a panel to put them in so you have many CommentBox controls in the panel, one for each comment (or maybe add them at runtime).
Now in WPF it's slightly easier because there is a StackPanel control that you can simply add controls to and it automatically arranges them vertically one beneath another in a stacked list. In fact your use case is exactly fitting what a StackPanel is for.
In WinForms there is no StackPanel, but you can use a normal Panel control*. It's just you'll have to position the CommentBox controls manually one beneath another. You will also need to set the AutoScroll property to true to turn on the vertical scroll bar if the content doesn't fit the view.
*or there's apparently an alternative How can I get a StackPanel-like layout in WinForms
I'm new to WPF but I need to implement following functionality:
I have a window that contains one Grid (might be changed to stack panel or something else). In that Grid I have 2 columns, each of them contains another Grid. Lets call them gridFirst and gridSecond. There is also GridSplitter in first column allowing to resize the columns.
I want to provide a button that will allow to separate gridFirst from this window and display it "as it is" in another window. How do I do that?
It would be nice if the new window had a same menu as the original window without me having to copy-paste (that not a good coding practise) all its code to the new window.
Thanks for answers
It sounds to me like you'd want to create a UserControl and put gridFirst in it. That way you can add your user control to your main grid and your window.
If the DataContext of your control is the same then it should look the same where ever you put it.
I'm trying to create a DataGridView cell class which hosts a control (all the time, not just while editing). So far, my approach has been to add the control to the grid and try to synchronise its position with that of the cell.
Would it be possible instead to keep the cell offscreen, route mouse and keyboard events to it, and paint it onto the cell?
UPDATE: By 'offscreen', I don't mean that it should be added to another control such that it isn't displayed; I mean that it should never be added to another control at all.
You can create a control without adding it to the form, then using it as the Cell editor whenever you need to. Usually with grids, when you click on a cell to edit it, it's going to either create a new control and put it in the right place, or it's going to use an existing control. You can make this process a lot easier by creating your own custom cell / column types. See this MSDN page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7fb61s43.aspx.
Most grids (including DataGridView and 3rd Party Grids) have a facility for adding custom cells.