I am struggling with a ListView of many Buttons - I want to stretch the text of all buttons to the same size. I saw this answer for TextBlocks, but I need a solution for Buttons. I broke my problem down to this minimal example.
This is my template. I am stretching the Text of my Button with a ViewBox.
<DataTemplate x:Key="MyTemplate">
<Button>
<Button.Template>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="Button">
<Border BorderThickness="3" BorderBrush="Black" Margin="1,1,1,1">
<Viewbox Stretch="Uniform">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}"/>
</Viewbox>
</Border>
</ControlTemplate>
</Button.Template>
</Button>
</DataTemplate>
I am using the template in a ItemsControl with a UniformGrid like this:
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding MyItems}" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource MyTemplate}">
<ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<UniformGrid Columns="4"/>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
</ItemsControl>
The result of this combination is like this. Every Button is stretching the text different.
But I want to stretch the Text of every button to the same FontSize. So the FontSize of my Buttons sould be the largest possible FontSize of all Buttons.
The result should look like this:
Is there a way to reach this? I appreciate any help!
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Is it possible to adjust the width of all TextBlocks in the WrapPanel to the size of the largest TextBlock within the WrapPanel? The end result should be that the width of the control containing "Some data" has the same width as the control containing "Even more data than before." I have attached to my initial code as a starting point. I have used strings as an example, but the collection data and template could be anything, so I can't rely on the length of the string.
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:System="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"
xmlns:Collections="clr-namespace:System.Collections;assembly=mscorlib"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
<Window.Resources>
<Collections:ArrayList x:Key="data">
<System:String>Some data</System:String>
<System:String>Some more data</System:String>
<System:String>Even more data than before</System:String>
</Collections:ArrayList>
</Window.Resources>
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{StaticResource data}">
<ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<WrapPanel></WrapPanel>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Border Margin="5" BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="Black">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}"></TextBlock>
</Border>
</DataTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>
</Window>
And an image of the desired output:
Use a shared size grid:
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{StaticResource data}" Grid.IsSharedSizeScope="True">
<ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<WrapPanel></WrapPanel>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" SharedSizeGroup="ColumnSize" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Border Margin="5" BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="Black">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}"></TextBlock>
</Border>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>
All columns are guaranteed to be the same width as they share a size group. As they are sized auto, they will also size to the largest instance of any of the grid's content.
You have to create your own custom version of a wrappanel that is derived from wrappanel to achieve what you want.
Normally for a custom panel you have to override following 2 methods :
MeasureOverride
ArrangeOverride
In your case you need measueoverride where you will iterate over the elements and find out which one is the biggest and then use that same size for all elements in arrangeoverride.
Some more info on how to create a custom panel :
http://www.wpftutorial.net/CustomLayoutPanel.html
You can add HorizontalContentAlignment=Stretch and Add UniformGrid in itemsPanel.
<Window.Resources>
<Collections:ArrayList x:Key="data">
<System:String>Some data</System:String>
<System:String>Some more data</System:String>
<System:String>Even more data than before</System:String>
</Collections:ArrayList>
</Window.Resources>
<ListBox ItemsSource="{StaticResource data}" HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch">
<ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<UniformGrid IsItemsHost="True"></UniformGrid>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Border Margin="5" BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="Black" >
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}" Width="{Binding
RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent},
Path=Width}"></TextBlock>
</Border>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
This is an alternative to Philip Stuyck's custom panel suggestion that you may find more straightforward for your particular scenario. (It is a bit of a hack admittedly.)
You can calculate the length of a string using the FormattedText class. So you could iterate over your strings and calculate the maximum length (this also assumes that you know the font family and size). Then just bind the width of your text blocks to the maximum width. I would store the width value in a single property at the parent level, then using a RelativeSource binding:
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}"
Width="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=ItemsControl},
Path=MaximumWidth}}"
/>
(One drawback of this approach is that if the items collection changes, you'll have to recalculate MaximumWidth.)
I am using a WPF UniformGrid to bind alist of items and the xaml is like this
<ListBox Name="lviewSearch" ItemsSource="{Binding SearchSettingsCollection}" SelectionMode="Multiple">
<ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<UniformGrid Columns="2"/>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<ItemsControl Margin="3" Padding="5">
<DockPanel>
<Label Content="{Binding Label}" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Cursor="Hand" />
</DockPanel>
</ItemsControl>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
But if the no of items is less then the spacing between rows is too much like this
http://i.stack.imgur.com/Xr5qy.png
How can i ireduce thi s?
Like people said, your UniformGrid has too much vertical space so it expands the rows to take up all that space (stretches).
What you need to do is prevent this default behavior of stretching by setting
VerticalAlignment="Top"
The whole point of the UniformGrid is that the size of cells is uniform and therefore the same size. If you only have a small number of rows compared to the vertical space then each row is going to be pretty tall. Conversely if you have many rows and little vertical space then each row becomes tiny. If this is not an appropriate appearance then you need to use a different method of laying out.
Without knowing much more about the visual design it becomes impossible to recommend a possible alternative. Is the ListBox always the same size or will it vary in height? Does the number of displayed results vary or stay constant? All these change how you might achieve the required result.
One simple solution is to use grid outside Listbox. Set row height as auto. Now Uniform grid will take minimum space as required.
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<ListBox Name="lviewSearch" ItemsSource="{Binding SearchSettingsCollection}" SelectionMode="Multiple">
<ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<UniformGrid Columns="2"/>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<ItemsControl Margin="3" Padding="5">
<DockPanel>
<Label Content="{Binding Label}" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Cursor="Hand" />
</DockPanel>
</ItemsControl>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
</Grid>
I'd like to display basically a matrix of buttons, the number of buttons change in runtime.
My problem is that I want them to be next to each other to fill up all the space I give them. I thought WrapPanel is the perfect way to do that but it puts the buttons under each other and I have no idea how to solve it.
<Grid>
<WrapPanel Width="250" Height="50" Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="543,442,73,162" >
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding States}" >
<ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate >
<Button Width="50" Height="25" Content="{Binding StateName}" Padding="0" ></Button>
</DataTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>
</WrapPanel>...</Grid>
States is a list of Items that contains a name and a ID number. If i want to add or remove buttons I modify the list. So the buttons appear but in vertical order and they go beyond the limits of the WrapPanel so if it is not big enough only some appears. They only use 50 width from the 250 and more then the 50 height. In this case if I put 5 buttons in it only shows 2 of them.
Don't wrap ItemsControl inside WrapPanel. Instead set it as ItemsPanel of ItemsControl.
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding States}">
<ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Button Width="50" Height="25" Content="{Binding StateName}"
Padding="0"/>
</DataTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<WrapPanel/>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
</ItemsControl>
I have the following XAML which produces a vertical output of several TextBlocks and ListBoxes, however I want to change it so that it will go horizontally.
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock Margin="5" Text="Collated Results" FontWeight="Bold"
VerticalAlignment="Center" DockPanel.Dock="Top"/>
<ScrollViewer VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"
HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" CanContentScroll="True">
<ItemsControl x:Name="lstCollatedSensorData">
<ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock Margin="5" Width="100" Text="{Binding Name}"/>
<ListBox Margin="5" Width="100"
ItemsSource="{Binding CollatedResults}"/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>
</ScrollViewer>
</StackPanel>
The Textbox and Listbox in the StackPanel show correctly individually, however, each iteration is placed on top of each other, where I want them to be placed side by side horizontally. I have tried inserting WrapPanels in various locations without success, so there is obviously something that I am missing. It almost seems like the ScrollViewer is forcing the ItemsControl to be vertical rather than horizontal.
Put a stackpanel with orientation horizontal in the ItemsControl's ItemsPanel
<ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"/>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
Try setting Orientation on the stackpanel like so
StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"
In my project, I have an ItemsControl which has as its ItemsPanel template a Grid. I would like to add a single control with this grid, completely independent of the ItemsControl 'Items', which can be accessed in the code-behind. What is the best way to do this?
More detail:
I am implementing a keyframe animation timeline in WPF. I do this by having a set of 'Indicators' which is bound to an ItemsControl; the ItemsControl then positions each of these on a Grid according to their position using the Margin property:
<DataTemplate x:Key="keyIndicatorTemplate">
<Border Width="1" Height="1"
BorderBrush="Black" Background="Black" BorderThickness="0"
HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top"
Margin="{Binding Converter={StaticResource ResourceKey=keyIndicatorMarginConv}}"
></Border>
</DataTemplate>
This Grid of indicators then automatically sizes to the key frames, and is zoomed and panned using the ItemsControl LayoutTransform property, and the encompassing ScrollViewer:
<Grid>
<ScrollViewer Name="timelineScrollViewer" Background="LightCyan" HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Visible">
<ItemsControl Name="KeyGridPresenter" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource ResourceKey=keyIndicatorTemplate}" >
<ItemsControl.LayoutTransform>
<ScaleTransform
ScaleX="{Binding Path=ZoomX, ElementName=TimelineUserControl}"
ScaleY="{Binding Path=ZoomY, ElementName=TimelineUserControl}">
</ScaleTransform>
</ItemsControl.LayoutTransform>
<ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<Grid Name="KeyGrid">
</Grid>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
</ItemsControl>
</ScrollViewer>
</Grid>
I would like to add a semi-transparent 'highlighter/caret' which the user controls with the mouse, but since this design is based on the grid being an abstract 'surface' which the ItemsControl and ScrollViewer provide a 'window' to, I need to add the control in such a way that the transforms of the containers apply to it (i.e. a sibling or child of the grid)
How can I modify my ItemsTemplate, so that it instantiates a single control (border/rectangle/etc), independent of the Items?
You cannot modify the children of a panel being used as the ItemsPanelTemplate
What I usually do instead is put both the ItemsControl and the overlay control in an panel that allows its children to overlap, such as a Grid
For example,
<ScrollViewer Name="timelineScrollViewer" ...>
<Grid>
<ItemsControl Name="KeyGridPresenter" ... >
</ItemsControl>
<Grid x:Name="SomethingDrawnOnTopOfItemsControl">
...
</Grid>
</Grid>
</ScrollViewer>