TextBox seems to have a maxlength by default - Cant disable - c#

When I try and push the source code from a site such as google into a textbox, the code is truncated after what appears to be a max length or height. I'm not quite sure which one it is yet.
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Center">
<CheckBox Margin="0,0,30,0" Content="Live Edit" IsChecked="{Binding isLiveEdit, Mode=TwoWay}"/>
<Button Width="130" Content="Run" Click="Run_Click"/>
<Button Content="Save Mods" IsEnabled="{Binding siteSaved}"/>
</StackPanel>
<ListBox Height="455" ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
<TextBox Text="{Binding source, Mode=TwoWay}" TextWrapping="Wrap" Width="600"/>
</ListBox>
</StackPanel>
It appears to not matter if I use TextBox or TextBlock. It hits this invisible limitation. The height of the control is still correct. For example I can keep scrolling but there is no text.
Here is a screenshot of where the textbox appears to end however the listbox that it is in will still allow me to continue to scroll as if it is populated with invisible data.

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Problems with flyout over itemscontrol in Windows Phone 8.1

I've got the following piece of XAML code:
<Grid Grid.Row="1" x:Name="ContentRoot" Margin="19,9.5,19,0">
<ScrollViewer>
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding History}">
<ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" Tapped="HistoryItemTapped">
<FlyoutBase.AttachedFlyout>
<Flyout>
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<ScrollViewer>
<TextBlock Foreground="{ThemeResource PhoneMidBrush}" FontSize="{ThemeResource TextStyleExtraLargeFontSize}" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Text="{Binding Expression}" />
</ScrollViewer>
<ScrollViewer>
<TextBlock FontSize="{ThemeResource TextStyleExtraLargePlusFontSize}" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Text="{Binding Result}" />
</ScrollViewer>
</StackPanel>
</Flyout>
</FlyoutBase.AttachedFlyout>
<TextBlock Foreground="{ThemeResource PhoneMidBrush}" FontSize="{ThemeResource TextStyleExtraLargeFontSize}" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Text="{Binding Expression}"
TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis"/>
<TextBlock FontSize="{ThemeResource TextStyleExtraLargePlusFontSize}" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Text="{Binding Result}"
TextTrimming="CharacterEllipsis"/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>
</ScrollViewer>
</Grid>
There are two problems I can't solve:
The flyout is shown upon tapping on one of items:
private void HistoryItemTapped(object sender, TappedRoutedEventArgs e)
{
FlyoutBase.GetAttachedFlyout((FrameworkElement)sender).ShowAt((FrameworkElement)sender);
}
However, no matter how I set up the flyout it always shows on the top of the screen, not over the tapped item. Why?
The flyout contains two TextBlocks on separate ScrollViewers. The text on one of them exceeds width of the flyout, bt the scrollviewer does not appear to be working (I cannot scroll horizontally the textblock). Why is that?
So let's knock these out real quick. Your #1 would be expected result, it's just going off the default FlyoutPlacementMode enumeration wherein generally your flyout is just meant to appear over the top in one of 5 spots, Top, Bottom, Left, Right, or Full(Center)
How to fix it, ditch the flyout control and just animate your own panel to do the same thing on a tap event or whatever, not hard at all.
Your #2, if I remember right the default on ScrollViewerfor something like the HorizontalScrollBarVisibility is False by default. So just add HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" to it.
Hope this helps, cheers

Text longlistselector not completely visible

I have a little problem using the longlistselector (well more specifically the multilonglistselector) in windows phone 8.
I use binding to bind the name of an object to the items, the XAML code is as follow:
<Grid>
<TextBox x:Name="searchBox"
IsEnabled="{Binding IsConnected}"
HorizontalAlignment="Left" KeyUp="CheckKey"
Height="72" Margin="10,10,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" InputScope="Search" GotFocus="Select"/>
<toolkit:LongListMultiSelector EnforceIsSelectionEnabled="True" SelectionChanged="AdjustAddSelectionButton" x:Name="resultList" ItemsSource="{Binding Results}" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Height="434" Margin="10,87,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" >
<toolkit:LongListMultiSelector.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Title}" TextWrapping="Wrap">
<toolkit:GestureService.GestureListener>
<toolkit:GestureListener DoubleTap="OpenArticleDetail" />
</toolkit:GestureService.GestureListener>
</TextBlock>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</toolkit:LongListMultiSelector.ItemTemplate>
</toolkit:LongListMultiSelector>
</Grid>
The Binding takes place perfectly, but the text is sometimes too long and doesn't fit the screen. How would I go about wrapping this text to another line?, I 'll give a screenshot here
You didn't really state any specific problem or question you want answered. Please try to be a bit more clear in the future.
If you don't like that the TextBlock cuts off words that it can't fit, then you have several solutions.
TextBlocks have a TextWrapping property, so doing TextWrapping="Wrap" will enable the TextBlock to resize itself to display all the content.
TextBlocks have the TextTrimming property, so writing TextTrimming="WordEllipsis" will replace any cut off words with an ellipsis.
If you want to keep the one line but also show all the content, you can put the TextBlock inside a Horizontal ScrollViewer, which will let the user scroll the text left and right. Not great, but a decent solution
Code for 3.
<ScrollViewer ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible">
<TextBlock Text="Text"/>
</ScrollViewer>
I added a huge right padding to my main TextBlock to work around this issue.
<phone:PhoneApplicationPage.Resources>
<DataTemplate x:Key="MyTemplate">
<StackPanel VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="0,-4,-50,0">
<TextBlock FontWeight="Bold" FontSize="18" Text="{Binding title}" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="0,0,0,6"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding text}" TextWrapping="Wrap" FontSize="30" Padding="0,0,125,0"/>
<Rectangle HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Height="1" Fill="#78c5a6" Margin="0,18,0,18"/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</phone:PhoneApplicationPage.Resources>

Silverlight TextBlockcutting off text?

I have the following setup
<grid>
<StackPanel>
<ListBox>
<TextBlock> ->Text you see getting cutt off<-
I have tried both just doing listbox.Add(String) and dynamically creating a TextBlock, assigning it text and then adding it to the listbox. Both produce identical results.
The image shows the listbox scrolled down half wayish. It appears the listbox has the correct height but the text inside hits some kind of limit.
UPDATE I changed the listbox to a scroll viewer and also hardcoded the Textblock in. Still same exact results
<Grid x:Name="theGrid" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,10,0">
<StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0">
<TextBlock Text="Networking Tools" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}" Margin="12,0"/>
<StackPanel x:Name="stack">
<TextBlock x:Name="inputIndicator" Margin="12,0,0,0">
<Run Text="Enter IP OR Domain"/>
</TextBlock>
<telerikPrimitives:RadTextBox x:Name="input" Text="google.com" HorizontalAlignment="Left" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalAlignment="Top" Grid.Row="1" Height="84" Width="458"/>
<telerikInput:RadListPicker SelectionChanged="picker_SelectionChanged" x:Name="picker" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="436"/>
<Button Click="Button_Click" Content="Go" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="456"/>
<ScrollViewer HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="392" Width="Auto" x:Name="list" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<TextBlock Name="content" Height="Auto" Width="Auto"/>
</ScrollViewer>
</StackPanel>
<UI:AdControl ApplicationId="test_client" AdUnitId="Image480_80" Height="80" Width="480"/>
</StackPanel>
<telerikPrimitives:RadBusyIndicator Margin="0,0,0,0" Height="106" Width="116" AnimationStyle="AnimationStyle1" x:Name="busyIndi" />
</Grid>
UI elements in Windows Phone 7 have a maximum renderable height and width of 2048 pixels. Any content that is larger than that gets clipped. The limit is only slightly higher for Windows Phone 8.
You did not mention how much text you are trying to show, but if it is very long, you could be hitting that limit.
There are a few ways you could handle this:
1) Break the text into smaller chunks and add individual TextBlocks to your StackPanel for each chunk.
2) Create a custom control that does the above for you, like this one: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/priozersk/archive/2010/09/08/creating-scrollable-textblock-for-wp7.aspx
3) Use a WebBrowser control instead of a TextBlock, and use its NavigateToString method to put your text in there.

How to highlight a selected item in the LongListSelector on WP8?

How is it possible to highlight the selected item in the new LongListSelector on Windows Phone 8? Actually nothing happend if I tapped one entry of the list. My list only contains a simple string which will be displayed through a TextBlock. But I want to highlight the selection of the user.
Thanks.
In my case I used a RadioButtonControl in the DataTemplate of the LongListSelectorItem to achieve this. You will have a checked oder unchecked sign at the left border.
In any case it is important, that you set the same group for all Radiobuttons, so the selection only represents one entry.
Inside the Contentor your RadioButton you can put the TextBlock bound to the String.
Im currently not at home, but if this wont solve your problem, I'll provide you some code when I'm at home ;)
Here you go:
<LongListSelector.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<ContentControl HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalContentAlignment="Left">
<RadioButton HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Margin="0,0,0,0" GroupName="A" Background="Black" >
<StackPanel toolkit:TiltEffect.IsTiltEnabled="True">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=XXX}"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
Foreground="Black"
Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextExtraLargeStyle}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=XXXX}"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
Foreground="Black"
Margin="14,-6,0,0"
Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextSubtleStyle}"/>
</StackPanel>
</RadioButton>
</ContentControl>
</DataTemplate>
</LongListSelector.ItemTemplate>

Why does the button size increases as the listbox size gets populated with data?

I'm a newbie to c#. I have designed a windows program with button and listbox. The listbox populates the log as the script runs the application. However, as the listbox gets populated with log, the button and label increases which makes the stack panel very ugly?
Any help/advice would be appreciated. Below is my xaml code.
<Grid>
<Border BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="2" Margin="0,11,0,5" CornerRadius="5" Background="White">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="7,10,7,2">
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
<TextBlock Text="City" Margin="5" HorizontalAlignment="Center"></TextBlock>
<ComboBox Name="City" SelectedValue="Chicago" SelectedValuePath="Name">
<ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Name,Mode=OneWay}"></TextBlock>
</DataTemplate>
</ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
</ComboBox>
</StackPanel>
<Button Name="btnEnter" Content="Enter" Width="200" Margin="4" Padding="6" Click="btnEnter_Click"></Button>
<Button Name="btnViewLog" Content="View Log" Width="100" Margin="4" Padding="6" Click="btnLog_Click"></Button>
<ListBox Name="lbLog" Visibility="Collapsed">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBox Text="{Binding Description}" IsReadOnly="True" BorderThickness="0" Background="Transparent"></TextBox>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
</StackPanel>
Thanks.
Ash
Without your Xaml, it is hard to diagnose the problem, so please try to post it with any further questions. It SOUNDS like it is a horizontal StackPanel, and the elements are all next to each other.
If the orientation of your StackPanel is Vertical, set the HorizontalAlignment on the button to Left, Right, or Center. If the StackPanel orientation is Horizontal, set the VerticalAlignment on the button to Top, Bottom, or Center.
I'm pretty certain both settings are "Stretch" by default, which means they will try to fill all the space that is available, rather than sizing to their content.

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