I'm exploring logical and visual trees from the same application without success going deeper through the levels.
My code uses a generic explorer:
private static void ProcessGenericTree(object current, List<FrameworkElement> leaves, Type treeType)
{
if (current is FrameworkElement)
{
if (!leaves.Contains(current as FrameworkElement))
leaves.Add(current as FrameworkElement);
}
DependencyObject dependencyObject = current as DependencyObject;
if (dependencyObject != null)
{
if (treeType.Equals(typeof(VisualTreeHelper)))
{
for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(dependencyObject); i++)
{
ProcessVisualTree(VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(dependencyObject, i), leaves);
}
}
else
{
foreach (object child in LogicalTreeHelper.GetChildren(dependencyObject))
{
ProcessLogicalTree(child, leaves);
}
}
}
}
ProcessLogicalTree and ProcessVisualTree simply iterate (doing something before the ProcessGenericTree re-call).
The result looks complete, but when I'm trying to retrieve a TextBlock into a GridViewColumn Header it looks like the item doesn't exist neither in the Logical nor in the Visual leaves list of FrameworkElement.
It seems to be a Visual Element into a Logical Element. In fact adding a watch this TextBlock appears in the Visual Children of my GridView (retrieved as logical, it stands in a Tab Item not selected), but my code isn't unable to get it.
My call is pretty simple:
ProcessVisualTree(root, _visualElements);
ProcessLogicalTree(root, _logicalElements);
where root is the MainWindow.
So, how can I explore my tree at its deepest level? Maybe re-iterating through the retrieved FrameworkElement list? I think my ProcessGeneric code already does it.
Update: the WPF Visualizer shows a structure of this kind:
ListView > ScrollViewer > Grid > DockPanel > Grid > ScrollContentPresenter > GridViewHeaderRowPresenter > GridViewColumnHeader > HeaderBorder
The GridViewColumnHeader level contains my TextBlock but the visual tree doesn't.
Update 2: using the recursion starting from the main window with my element visible I'm not able to Find the object with a specified name with this code:
public static T FindVisualChild<T>(DependencyObject depObj) where T : DependencyObject
{
if (depObj != null)
{
for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(depObj); i++)
{
DependencyObject child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(depObj, i);
if (child != null && child is T)
{
return (T)child;
}
T childItem = FindVisualChild<T>(child);
if (childItem != null) return childItem;
}
}
return null;
}
I'm pretty sure the VisualTreeHelper is not able to retrieve elements inside Header property but the WPF Inspector works correctly.
I wonder if it uses a different approach to traverse the tree (maybe inspecting the Properties like Header too). Suggestions?
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I want to modify the content in a TabItem of a TabView. And that TabItem uses DataTemplate.
When I am trying to access the children of that item like the following:
var container = tabview.ContainerFromIndex(tabview.SelectedIndex);
int count = VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(container);
I got the ArgumentException: Wrong Parameter Reference on the second line. How should I use VisualTreeHelper to modify it?
Here is a easy method:
public static T GetChildObject<T>(DependencyObject obj, string name) where T : FrameworkElement
{
DependencyObject child = null;
T grandChild = null;
for (int i = 0; i <= VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(obj) - 1; i++)
{
child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(obj, i);
if (child is T && (((T)child).Name == name | string.IsNullOrEmpty(name)))
{
return (T)child;
}
else
{
grandChild = GetChildObject<T>(child, name);
}
if (grandChild != null)
{
return grandChild;
}
}
return null;
}
From your description, you can already get the container of the target element. Let's assume that the element you need is named TargetEle and the type is TextBlock. You can write it like this:
var target = GetChildObject<TextBlock>(container,"TargetEle");
Update
I tested your code and found that you didn't capture the events loaded by the page.
In fact, the SelectionChanged event is fired when the TabView is just created, but the visual tree is not loaded yet, and you can't get the content from it through the code. You can create an IsLoaded property in the page, set it to True when Page Loaded, and determine this property in the SelectionChanged time.
Only when it is True, proceed to the next step.
I would like to find all of the controls within a WPF control specially in Datagrid, DataGridTemplateColumn. I have had a look at a lot of samples and it seems that they all either require a Name to be passed as parameter or simply do not work.
What have you tried that "require a name to be passed or simply don't work" and what's wrong with the former?
private void FindAllChildren()
{
var depObj = dataGrid;
for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(depObj); i++)
{
DependencyObject child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(depObj, i);
if (child is DataGridTemplateColumn)
{
// do a thing
}
}
}
Adapted from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/978352/1189566
I am new with WPF, so I'm not sure if the title of the question is correct or makes any sense, please edit if it can get more relevant. I am using Kinect.Toolbox MouseControl in my application. For using the magnetic controls I have a problem. I know that I can define them in XAML by adding:
<Page ...
xmlns:local ="clr-namespace:Kinect.Toolbox;assembly=Kinect.Toolbox">
...
<Button local:MagneticPropertyHolder.IsMagnetic="True" ... />
....
But I need to do it in the code. Is there anyway to set the magnetic controls in the code? I can get all the controlls in the page like this:
public static IEnumerable<T> FindVisualChildren<T>(DependencyObject depObj) where T : DependencyObject
{
if (depObj != null)
{
for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(depObj); i++)
{
DependencyObject child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(depObj, i);
if (child != null && child is T)
{
yield return (T)child;
}
foreach (T childOfChild in FindVisualChildren<T>(child))
{
yield return childOfChild;
}
}
}
}
foreach (Button tb in FindVisualChildren<Button>(this))
{
//Set the buttons to be magnetic
}
However I cannot understand how to set them progmatically.
This looks like an attached property.
To set it, you'd do something like
tb.SetValue(MagneticPropertyHolder.IsMagneticProperty, true);
or possibly
MagneticPropertyHolder.SetIsMagnetic(tb, true);
A quick glance at the Kinect Toolbox source code suggests that either would work. The second is more type safe.
See How to I access an attached property in code behind? for more information.
I have the following code that is supposed to find an element inside of something. The problem is that I have a DataGrid, whose first column has a CheckBox in it's header. The checkbox itself is defined in a Style, which exists in the <controls:ChildWindow.Resources> dictionary of the parent child window.
At runtime, if all elements of the binding collection of the grid are "selected", than I need to select the damn checkbox. However, since the checkbox exists in the style it is not easily accesible and thus I need to walk through the entire DOM to find the specific checkbox.
This is the code that makes the DOM Traversal. It is implemented as an extension method to FrameworkElement so I can call the FindElement or GetChildren methods from any control that inherits from FrameworkElement:
public static class FrameworkElementExtensions
{
public static FrameworkElement FindElement(this FrameworkElement parentFrameworkElement, string childFrameworkElementNameToSearch)
{
FrameworkElement childFrameworkElementFound = null;
parentFrameworkElement.SearchElements(ref childFrameworkElementFound, childFrameworkElementNameToSearch);
return childFrameworkElementFound;
}
public static List<FrameworkElement> GetChildren(this FrameworkElement parentElement)
{
List<FrameworkElement> childFrameworkElementsFound = new List<FrameworkElement>();
parentElement.GetChildren(childFrameworkElementsFound);
return childFrameworkElementsFound;
}
public static void SearchElements(this FrameworkElement parentFrameworkElement, ref FrameworkElement childFrameworkElementToFind, string childFrameworkElementName)
{
int childrenCount = VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(parentFrameworkElement);
if (childrenCount > 0)
{
FrameworkElement childFrameworkElement = null;
for (int i = 0; i < childrenCount; i++)
{
childFrameworkElement = (FrameworkElement)VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(parentFrameworkElement, i);
if (childFrameworkElement != null && childFrameworkElement.Name.Equals(childFrameworkElementName))
{
childFrameworkElementToFind = childFrameworkElement;
return;
}
childFrameworkElement.SearchElements(ref childFrameworkElementToFind, childFrameworkElementName);
}
}
}
public static void GetChildren(this FrameworkElement parentFrameworkElement, List<FrameworkElement> allChildFrameworkElement)
{
int childrenCount = VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(parentFrameworkElement);
if (childrenCount > 0)
{
for (int i = 0; i < childrenCount; i++)
{
FrameworkElement childFrameworkElement = (FrameworkElement)VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(parentFrameworkElement, i);
allChildFrameworkElement.Add(childFrameworkElement);
childFrameworkElement.GetChildren(allChildFrameworkElement);
}
}
}
}
So the issue at hand is that when i call something along the lines of SomeDataGrid.FindElement("HeaderCheckBox"); it always returns a null. The assumption here is that I have a DataGrid called SomeDataGrid and a CheckBox defined within a style called HeaderCheckBox.
Upon further debugging I also found out that no matter what control I call these extension methods from, the VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount method call used in the last two methods in my code always returns 0 ??? WTF?
Anyone has any idea on how to fix this?
Thanks,
Martin
Sure, no problem. Here it is.
It was made with VS2010 and Silverlight 4... just in case.
sorry about not making myself clear enough and not putting enough effort (wont happen again :)). i'm building a form App where users have to fill out the form. i have a TabControl with 3 TabItem one of the TabItem has TextBoxes the second has TextBoxes and RadioButton and third has only CheckBoxes. i have written a code to dictect error by on clicking submit using ValidationRule/ValidationResult and and using GroupBinding (got it from msdn samples). now the problem am having is code to search through the tabs, compare the controls (e.g. controlA,controlB) to know wich one comes before the other and return the tabindex. one of the use i want with this is letting the user jump to the uncompleted TextBox,RadioButton or CheckBoxes in order like starting from the first Tabitem in the TabControl
with this code i could work the tree to locate the controls(code from Philipp Sumi blog but i modified it a little)
private void Button_Click(
object sender,
RoutedEventArgs e)
{
IEnumerator enumerator = FindLogicalChildren(_parentStackPanel).GetEnumerator();
while (enumerator.MoveNext())
MessageBox.Show(enumerator.Current.ToString());
}
private IEnumerable FindLogicalChildren(
DependencyObject depObj)
{
if (depObj != null)
{
foreach (object childObj in LogicalTreeHelper.GetChildren(depObj))
{
DependencyObject child = childObj as DependencyObject;
if (child != null && child is Control)
{
yield return (Control)child;
}
foreach (Control childOfChild in FindLogicalChildren(child))
{
yield return childOfChild;
}
}
}
}
but i dodnt know how continue to get the tabindex of each control in order form as i work down the tree. can any one please help me on this? Thanks
im using this method:
private int Compare(
Control controlA,
Control controlB)
{
DependencyObject commonAncestor = controlA.FindCommonVisualAncestor(controlB);
for (int index = 0; index < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(commonAncestor); index++)
{
Visual childVisual = (Visual)VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(commonAncestor, index);
Control control = (Control)childVisual;
control.TabIndex = index;
}
return controlA.TabIndex.CompareTo(controlB.TabIndex);
}
that returns 1,-1 or 0 to compare two controls to find out which one comes before the other. the question is, can anyone tell me a better way of doing this.