It looks simple, but it is unbelievable hard.
I want to have such layout:
It's ListView which should take a maximum height of buttons (number of visible buttons is dynamic).
I tried this
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
...
<Grid Grid.Row="1">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel>
<Button/>
<Button/>
...
</StackPanel>
<ListView Grid.Column="1"/>
</Grid>
</Grid>
Problem: ListView has a very weird behavior to size self to content. If I add many items, then suddenly it takes all window space.
Question: how to limit ListView height to not exceed buttons total height (StackPanel height)?
P.S.: mvvm, so pure xaml is preferable.
P.S.S.: I have feeling it will be a binding of something to something. But of what to what?
You just need to data bind the ActualHeight of your StackPanel to the ListView.Height so that the ListView won't grow larger than the Button's StackPanel:
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Row="1">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel Name="ButtonPanel" Grid.Column="0">
<Button Content="Click" />
<Button Content="Click" />
<Button Content="Click" />
</StackPanel>
<ListView Grid.Column="1" ItemsSource="{Binding Tests}"
Height="{Binding ActualHeight, ElementName=ButtonPanel}" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
You can bind the MaxHeight property of your lower content grid to the ActualHeight of the buttons StackPanel. Futher more, you need to set the VerticalAlignment of the buttons panel to Bottom.
This way, you can add more parts in vertically, but still stick to the buttons panel height.
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
...
<Grid Grid.Row="1"
MaxHeight="{Binding ElementName=ButtonPanel, Path=ActualHeight}">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel Name="ButtonPanel"
VerticalAlignment="Bottom">
<Button Content="Button"/>
<Button Content="Button"/>
<Button Content="Button"/>
</StackPanel>
<ListView Grid.Column="1"/>
<!-- Multiple controls can be added here,
but the lower part will still stick
to the size of the buttons panel -->
</Grid>
</Grid>
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I have a problem with my first ListView usage. My custom item should have (currently) 2 rows with 3 columns each containing a label (1st column width="Auto"), a textbox (fill-up 2nd column (tested with="" or width="100") and a button in the 3rd column (width="Auto")
Unfortunately the second column does not scale to use full Listview width but behaves like width="Auto".
Note that initially I used a StackPanel as top control in the DataTemplate and replaced it by a grid, just to check if it could solve the problem.
Testing the DataTemplate Grid in a test application directely in a window dows work as expected.
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Label Content="Input Paths"/>
<ListView Grid.Row="1" ItemsSource="{Binding PathListAccess.PathList.PathList}">
<ListView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid>
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<!--Row 0-->
<Label Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Content="Input Directory:"/>
<TextBox Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Text="{Binding InputPath}"/>
<Button Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="2" Content="..."/>
<!--Row 1-->
<Label Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Content="Output Directory:"/>
<TextBox Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Text="{Binding OutputPath}"/>
</Grid>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</ListView.ItemTemplate>
</ListView>
</Grid>
I think the problem is that the ListView default value for HorizontalContentAlignment is Left.
Try to set HorizontalContentAlignment to Stretch
<ListView Grid.Row="1" ItemsSource="{Binding PathListAccess.PathList.PathList}"
HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch">
I have a grid with 2 rows one for a name and button and the other for output.
I want the first row to stretch the full width and the button to align to the right.
Wondering what I am missing as I thought the stackpanel would fill the width.
<Window x:Class="Sample.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" >
<TextBox Name="NameTextBox" MinWidth="150" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"/>
<Button Margin="10,0" Name="AlertButton" Content="Say Hello" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" />
</StackPanel>
<TextBox Name="OutpuTextBox" MinLines="5" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0"/>
</Grid>
</Window>
Horizontal StackPanel ignores horizontally alignment of its children. You can change your layout to 2 columns and put Button in the second column of first row and set bottom TextBox to span across 2 columns
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBox Name="NameTextBox" MinWidth="150" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"/>
<Button Margin="10,0" Name="AlertButton" Content="Say Hello" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Grid.Column="1" />
<TextBox Name="OutpuTextBox" MinLines="5" Grid.Row="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="2"/>
</Grid>
I have a StackPanel control in my WPF project, and it is in column 0 row 2 of a Grid. How can I autofit the StackPanel size to the size of that grid cell? Setting the StackPanel width and height to "auto" will just size it to its contents. I could explicitly set its width and height to numerical values, but I was wondering if there was a cleaner, more accurate way. Thank you.
Relevant XAML:
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="74*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="74*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="421*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Label Content="{StaticResource LoginWindow_Title}" Style="{StaticResource TitleH1}" Grid.ColumnSpan="2"/>
<Label Content="{StaticResource LoginWindow_Subtitle}" Style="{StaticResource TitleH2}" Grid.Row="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="2"/>
<Border BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Grid.Row="2" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Left" Grid.Row="2" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<Label Content="Log in"/>
</StackPanel>
</Border>
</Grid>
Your StackPanel is not in Grid, it`s inside Border. So for it to take all available space you can set horizontal and vertical alignment to Stretch both for it and its parent Border:
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="74*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="74*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="421*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Border HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1" Grid.Row="2">
<StackPanel VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<Label Content="Log in"/>
</StackPanel>
</Border>
</Grid>
Even so, like others mentioned, some other panel almost definetely will be better in this case.
The answer is always the same... don't use a StackPanel for layout purposes. They are primarily used to arrange UI elements that are very unlikely to change size. Even if you resized the StackPanel to the correct size, it would not help because a StackPanel does not rearrange or resize it's content items. If you want this functionality, you'll have to use one of the other Panel controls like a Grid instead.
<Grid>
<Border>
<StackPanel VerticalAlignment="Center" ...
I have a typical MVVM structure. A mainwindow consists of some labels and a viewmodel (bound as ContentControl). This viewmodel has a listbox where I add entries. As the list grows the height of my viewmodel grows as well and thus the height of the whole application. Unfortunately the size doesn't stop at the edge of the screen and just grows out of the screen. I tried all the different size-restrictions on the mainwindow, the viewmodel is stretched in both dimensions.
Furthermore, I tried to get a scrollbar for the listbox but didn't succeed (or it's just there but not enabled if I force it.)
How can I restrict the maximal size to be the resolution of the screen (fullscreen) and get a scrollbar for the listbox when the size is reached?
€: Okay, here should be the relevant part of my code. I tried a fixed size of 1024x768 but even that doesn't work.
MainWindow.xaml
<Window x:Class="SWS.MainWindow"
DataContext="{Binding Main, Source={StaticResource Locator}}"
Width="1024"
Height="768"
MaxWidth="1024"
MaxHeight="768">
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<ContentControl Grid.Row="0" Content="{Binding CurrentViewModel}" />
</Grid>
</Window>
The ViewModel in question
<UserControl x:Class="SWS.Views.ProgramView"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<DockPanel Grid.Row="0">
<Label Width="65" Content="{x:Static p:Resources.PrV_Number}" />
<Label Width="75" Content="{x:Static p:Resources.PrV_Weight}" />
<Label Width="55" Content="{x:Static p:Resources.PrV_Action}" />
<Label Content=" " />
</DockPanel>
<ListBox Grid.Row="1"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
ItemsSource="{Binding ParticleCollection}"
ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="True"
ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<DockPanel>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding ID}" Width="53" />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Weight, StringFormat=F4}" Width="65" />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Action}" Width="52" />
</DockPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
</Grid>
</UserControl>
You need to set the row height to * on your Window for ContentControl and your ListBox in UserControl to fill available space than try to get what it needs.
This worked fine:
MainWindow.xaml:
<Window x:Class="SWS.MainWindow"
DataContext="{Binding Main, Source={StaticResource Locator}}"
Width="1024"
Height="768"
MaxWidth="1024"
MaxHeight="768">
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<ContentControl Grid.Row="0" Content="{Binding CurrentViewModel}" />
</Grid>
</Window>
and UserControl:
<UserControl x:Class="SWS.Views.ProgramView"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
...
</Grid>
</UserControl>
Could also do this in a couple more ways:
In your Window you can just remove the <Grid.RowDefinitions>...<Grid.RowDefinitions> completely. The default behavior is what your looking for.
When you have more than 1 row you can either choose to specify Height="*" or just remove the Height Property from the RowDefinition
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
I've a shell window constructed of an Header, Main Content and Footer.
The main content is a tab control.
According to the design, one of the tab items content (a user control) needs to expand a little bit over the footer.
At first I thought about implmenting this with a negative Margin, but the footer no matter what I did always get drawn on top of my content.
For example consider the following xaml:
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="33*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="33*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="33*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<StackPanel Background="Blue" Grid.Row="0"/> <!-- Header -->
<StackPanel Background="Red" Grid.Row="2"/> <!-- Footer -->
<TabControl Grid.Row="1" > <!-- Content -->
<TabItem>
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="33*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="33*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="33*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel Grid.Column="1" Background="Yellow" >
<Button Width="100" Height="50" Content="Text" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</TabItem>
</TabControl>
What I would want to achieve is making the Yellow StackPanel to reach the bottom of the screen somewhow, overlapping on top of the red footer.
Hope it is understandable.
Thanks
Ariel
Try this code sample:
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="33*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="33*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="33*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="33*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="33*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="33*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel Grid.ColumnSpan="3" Background="Blue" Grid.Row="0"/> <!-- Header -->
<StackPanel Grid.ColumnSpan="3" Background="Red" Grid.Row="2"/> <!-- Footer -->
<TabControl Grid.ColumnSpan="3" Grid.Row="1"> <!-- Content -->
<TabItem>
<Grid>
<Button Width="100" Grid.Column="1" Height="50" Content="Text" />
</Grid>
</TabItem>
</TabControl>
<StackPanel Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="3" Background="Yellow" />
</Grid>
The problem is that you want the stackpanel contained within the tab control, but you want it to extend beyond the bottom of the tab control. This isn't supported by the tab control.
No doubt TabControl is the problem. Maybe try to write your own TabControl.
Cheers.