I'm designing Silverlight ChildWindow and I met one intersting problem. I defined a button on a window title as follows:
<ChildWindow.Title>
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="This is textblock" Grid.Column="0"/>
<Button Content="Help" Name="btnHelp" Grid.Column="1" Width="100"
Margin="300,0,0,0" />
</Grid>
</ChildWindow.Title>
This window is resizable. When you try to resize the window, the "btnHelp" button is covered by the close button, and the "btnHelp" button is not aligned to the edge of the window also. I tried before to use a StackPanel, also I used margins in both variants (StackPanel and Grid) and they didn't help me properly. The variant in the code is latest:) Could you please give a hint, what can I do with that?
Thanks in an advance.
This is a result of what appears to be a strange choice in the ChildWindow's control template -- the Title content is not stretched, so you can't really right-align anything without hard-coding it. So, you could go ahead and just apply fixed widths to the Grid column widths:
<controls:ChildWindow.Title>
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="250"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="100"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="This is textblock" Grid.Column="0"/>
<Button Content="Help" Name="btnHelp" Grid.Column="1" />
</Grid>
</controls:ChildWindow.Title>
That's quick-and-dirty, but not very satisfying. An alternative would be to modify the ControlTemplate (at the link above) so that it behaves how you would expect. Find the ContentControl that displays the Title, and make it stretch to fill the available space, by adding HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch":
<Style TargetType="controls:ChildWindow" x:Key="MyChildWindowStyle">
<!-- etc ... -->
<ContentControl Content="{TemplateBinding Title}" FontWeight="Bold"
HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" IsTabStop="False" Margin="6,0,6,0" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
<!-- etc ... -->
</Style>
This allows you to use the normal layout controls like Grid, and it will render as expected:
<controls:ChildWindow Style="{StaticResource MyChildWindowStyle}"
...
<controls:ChildWindow.Title>
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="This is textblock" Grid.Column="0"/>
<Button Content="Help" Name="btnHelp" Grid.Column="1" Width="100"/>
</Grid>
</controls:ChildWindow.Title>
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I have textboxes with some textblocks above it.
I want my application to have resizable width (not height) so I have setted only MinWidth for window. So when I click on right or left border of window I can scale it however I want.
My problem is, that when I use textboxes I don't get result what I would like to have.
If I position textboxes with textblock above it on MinWidth of window, after making the window bigger those textboxes will stay with same width on the same place according to ColumnDefinitions.
It does make sence since those textboxes have fixed width setted on 160 but if I try same thing with buttons according same columndefinitions and stuff those buttons gonna stretch according window size and it will be sorted by columndefintions.
Is there way how to acomplish same thing with textboxes? So when I stretch window from 1050px to full size 1920px mine textboxes would change width so it can be dynamically? Width="Auto" doesn't solve it for me
Adding images below so you can imagine it better hopefully.
xaml:
<UserControl x:Class="App.NewUI.Textboxes"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:App.NewUI"
mc:Ignorable="d"
d:DesignHeight="720" MaxHeight="720" d:DesignWidth="1050">
<Border Padding="10">
<StackPanel>
<!-- TextBoxes + update button -->
<Grid Margin="0 5 0 0">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBox x:Name="txtBoxFirstname" Text="{Binding SelectedItem.Firstname, ElementName=dg}" Grid.Column="0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="160"/>
<TextBox x:Name="txtBoxLastname" Text="{Binding SelectedItem.Lastname, ElementName=dg}" Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="160"/>
<TextBox x:Name="txtBoxTelephone" Text="{Binding SelectedItem.Telephone, ElementName=dg}" Grid.Column="2" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="160"/>
<TextBox x:Name="txtBoxBorn" Text="{Binding SelectedItem.Born, ElementName=dg}" Grid.Column="3" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="160"/>
<TextBox x:Name="txtBoxCategory" Text="{Binding SelectedItem.Category, ElementName=dg}" Grid.Column="4" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="160"/>
<Button x:Name="btnUpdateRecord" Content="Update Record" Grid.Column="5" Click="btnUpdateRecord_Click"/>
</Grid>
<!-- datagrid -->
<Grid Margin="0 15 0 0">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="3*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<DataGrid x:Name="dg" Grid.Column="0" Margin="0,0,0,-350" Width="auto" Height="350"/>
</Grid>
</StackPanel>
</Border>
I've tried to set textboxes width to auto but then textboxes will be tiny without text and won't stretch anyway. Thank you for any tip
Imgur images of window
Deleting fixed width and set horizontal alignment to strech figured it out.
<TextBox x:Name="txtBoxFirstname" Text="{Binding SelectedItem.Firstname, ElementName=dg}" Grid.Column="0" HorizontalAlignment="stretch" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
I have a problem designing my GUI in wpf.
How do i set the Grid ColumnDefinition Width dynamically,
I have a expander. And when the expander is clicked the grid should also expand and adjust with the size of the expander
As of now i have this GUI
enter image description here
And this is the xaml code
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="127"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="665*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Expander Background="Gray" x:Name="expander" ExpandDirection="Right" Expanded="Expander_Expanded" >
<Expander.Header>
<TextBlock Text="Objects">
<TextBlock.LayoutTransform>
<RotateTransform Angle="-90"/>
</TextBlock.LayoutTransform>
</TextBlock>
</Expander.Header>
<StackPanel Margin="10,4,0,0">
<CheckBox Margin="4" Content="Option 1" />
<CheckBox Margin="4" Content="Option 2" />
<CheckBox Margin="4" Content="Option 3" />
</StackPanel>
<!-- Stuff XD -->
</Expander>
<Grid Grid.Column="1" Background="Red"/>
</Grid>
As of now the ColomnDefinition width is 127
I want it to adjust to at least 30. So the window will be filled with other stuff
like this
enter image description here
But my problem is how do i expand the grid when the expander is expanded.
And another thing. I can't get the size of the expander when expanded. It gives me NaN which i can't use to set the columndefinition width
Thank you so much. Sorry for my bad english
Use Auto in first column Width and it will define size of expander based on content.
If you would like that column "0" has some min Width just set the property MinWidth. (but in that case I will not recommend, but show below)
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" MinWidth="30"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
Also I will recommend use GridSplitter, then you will have splitter between two columns that allows to change width of columns by user in UI
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" MinWidth="30"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="5"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<GridSplitter Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Background="DarkSalmon"/>
Also in expander you can only have one user-control, so "stuff" you said need to be inside some layout control like stack-panel,dock or another grid etc.
Let me know if it works as you expected.
Trying to use GridSplitter but it's not working. Dragging the splitter to the left is fine, but dragging to the right has no effect. I think the Right grid is the problem. But I'm not sure. Please give me some advice.
Here is my code:
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="100"/>
<RowDefinition Height="{DynamicResource DefaultMargin}"/>
<RowDefinition/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition MinWidth="100"/>
<ColumnDefinition x:Name="columnDefinition_One" Width="{DynamicResource DefaultMargin}"/>
<ColumnDefinition x:Name="columnDefinition_Two" MinWidth="230" Width="{Binding ActualWidth, ElementName=Element1}"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid x:Name="Layout" Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0">
</Grid>
<GridSplitter x:Name="gridSplitter" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" ResizeDirection="Columns" ResizeBehavior="PreviousAndNext" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2" Background="{StaticResource DarkGray}" />
<Grid x:Name="grid_MonitoringView" Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="2" Style="{DynamicResource DefaultPanel}" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<Border>
<view1:ViewExample x:Name="viewExample"/>
</Border>
</Grid>
</Grid>
I copied your code into my demo project, and it works fine for me. #lomed found that you might have an incorrect MinWidth value and I agree with that too. But you say that your 'grid_MonitoringView' has not been affected.
Do you notice that my right border layout correctly? So the real problem is ViewExample class. Your ViewExample has incorrect layout values such as MinWidth or other visuals inside with larger layout width.
the GridSplitter cant reduce width of column than their MinWidth value.
You'll see it works fine if you maximize the window,
or for demostartion try remove the MinWidth value:
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition x:Name="columnDefinition_One" Width="50"/>
<ColumnDefinition x:Name="columnDefinition_Two"/>
On my Window, I've got a GroupBox. I'd like to build out a horizontally aligned form inside of that GroupBox. By horizontally aligned, I mean a form where the label and the input reside on the same grid row or x axis. Separate form labels + inputs reside on their own row.
Since a GroupBox can only have one child content, I assume I need to either use a Grid or StackPanel. I'm trying to use a StackPanel because that seems simpler and should achieve what I'm aiming for.
The issue I'm trying to figure out is how to group the input and label into one unit so they can reside horizontally next to each other, but stack vertically as a pair within the StackPanel.
It's probably best to use a Grid that way you an get the labels and inputs to line up vertically. While it's not impossible with a stack panel it's a whole lot harder. If you set the grid's RowDefinition heights to "Auto" the grid will only be as tall as it needs to be:
<GroupBox>
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Text="Label1"/>
<TextBox Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" Text="{Binding Input1}"/>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Text="Label2"/>
<TextBox Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" Text="{Binding Input2}"/>
etc.
</Grid>
</GroupBox>
You'll probably need to play around with margins and/or padding and horizontal alignments to get the layout exactly how you want it, but this should give you the control you need to achieve what you want.
you can use a stackpanel with orientation equal to vertical inside your groupbox and inside that stackpanel you can have another stackpanel with orientation equal to horizantal for your label and input just like following sample code.
<GroupBox Header="Sample GroupBox">
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
<StackPanel Name="input1" Orientation="Horizontal">
<Label Content="input1"/>
<TextBox/>
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel Name="input2" Orientation="Horizontal">
<Label Content="input2"/>
<TextBox/>
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel Name="input3" Orientation="Horizontal">
<Label Content="input3"/>
<TextBox/>
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</GroupBox>
One feature you might find useful is grid shared size scope. It can help you align elements in multiple different Grids, by sharing their column\row sizes, like this:
<GroupBox Header="Sample GroupBox">
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" Grid.IsSharedSizeScope="True">
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" SharedSizeGroup="firstGroup" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" SharedSizeGroup="secondGroup" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Label Content="input11" Grid.Column="0" />
<TextBox Grid.Column="1" Width="100"/>
</Grid>
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" SharedSizeGroup="firstGroup" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" SharedSizeGroup="secondGroup" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Label Content="input2222222" Grid.Column="0" />
<TextBox Grid.Column="1"/>
</Grid>
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" SharedSizeGroup="firstGroup" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" SharedSizeGroup="secondGroup" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Label Content="input3333333333333" Grid.Column="0" />
<TextBox Grid.Column="1"/>
</Grid>
</StackPanel>
</GroupBox>
I don't say that it is necessary in the code above, but that is just example. Often, you want to use grid in for example ItemTemplate of ItemsControl, and you want all items to be aligned. Here shared size scope might help.
I have started with XAML as part of my freetime and now I have a problem with the padding of the standard button.
I have the following code for a grid which resides in another grid, so I have four grids inside my page and the problem is that the buttons are cut off and I am not able to change the width or the padding of the buttons.
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="3" HorizontalAlignment="Center" FontSize="24"/>
<Button x:Name="Player2MinusButton" Content="-" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" FontSize="20" ></Button>
<Button x:Name="Player2PlusButton" Content="+" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="2" FontSize="20" ></Button>
</Grid>
The problem is now, that the button is cut of as you could see in the screenshot here:
I have already tried to set a negative padding/margin and also to make a Custom Style:
<Style TargetType="Button" x:Key="ButtonStyle">
<Setter Property="Padding" Value="-10,0"/>
</Style>
Thanks for your hints and I hope I have nothing forgotten in my first question.
Michael
Since you want a narrower than standard button set the Buttons' MinWidth property:
<Button x:Name="Player2PlusButton" Content="+" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="2" FontSize="20" MinWidth=50 AutomationProperties.Name="Plus Button" ></Button>
If you copy the button template (right click on the button in the designer then select Edit Template... and follow the prompts) you'll find the following:
<x:Double x:Key="PhoneButtonMinHeight">57.5</x:Double>
<x:Double x:Key="PhoneButtonMinWidth">109</x:Double>
I assume you're running on the phone: the Windows Store Button template is different and doesn't set the minimums. Your buttons come out small there by default.