I have a grid with 3 defined columns. Is there a way to divide column 1 into 3 grid rows without affecting the other 2 columns? I've tried defining RowDefinitions, but it spans all 3 columns. I don't want that. I only want it to affect the 1 column.
No, you cannot. If you declare a Row inside Grid it will be for all the Columns.
One thing you can do is declare a Grid inside the first Column and define three rows in that Grid
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition/>
<ColumnDefinition/>
<ColumnDefinition/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Column="0">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
</Grid>
</Grid>
You should use nested Grids. Put an inner Grid into column 1 and define some rows:
<Grid Name="outerGrid">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid Name="innerGrid" Grid.Column="0">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
</Grid>
</Grid>
You could try this layout:
<Grid ShowGridLines="True" >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition></ColumnDefinition>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Column="0">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition></RowDefinition>
<RowDefinition></RowDefinition>
<RowDefinition></RowDefinition>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
</Grid>
</Grid>
Related
I have UserControl with a Grid that is divided into rows and columns. Something like this:
how can I add ListView on multiple rows and columns? For example:
Part of my xaml:
<Grid Margin="30,0,30,0" Background="#00000000">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="80" />
<RowDefinition Height="60" />
<RowDefinition Height="160"/>
<RowDefinition Height="50"/>
<RowDefinition Height="50"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.4*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.4*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions >
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.5*"></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.5*"></ColumnDefinition>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Label Grid.Column="1"
FontSize="28"
FontFamily="../Fonts/#GeForce-Bold"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Foreground="White">
<TextBlock Text="Deploy" TextDecorations="Underline"/>
</Label>
...
...
</Grid>
<Grid Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions >
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.5*"></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.5*"></ColumnDefinition>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="0.3*"></RowDefinition>
<RowDefinition Height="0.7*"></RowDefinition>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
...
...
My goal is to display ListView at rows 0-3 and columns 0-2.
Mark already gave the hint in the comments, but for the sake of having an answer including an example, here it is:
You are locking for the Grid.ColumnSpan (or Grid.RowSpan) property.
The following code will place the list view starting in column 1 and extending over a total of 2 columns:
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="10"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="10"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="10"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ListView Grid.Column="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="2">
<ListViewItem>item 1</ListViewItem>
<ListViewItem>item 2</ListViewItem>
</ListView>
</Grid>
How can I stop this Grid from expanding vertically and adding all this extra space between the rows?
<ContentPage.Content>
<StackLayout>
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Image Source="testsquare" />
<Image Source="testsquare" Grid.Column="1"/>
<Image Source="testsquare" Grid.Row="1"/>
<Image Source="testsquare" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1"/>
</Grid>
</StackLayout>
</ContentPage.Content>
This is what it should look like (ignore the background color change)
Use "Auto" instead of "*"
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
It appears to be a bug, where the grid height is being treated as if the image is being displayed at its full height.
<Grid BackgroundColor="CornflowerBlue">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Image Source="testsquare" />
<Image Source="testsquare" Grid.Column="1" />
</Grid>
There is a spacing property in Grid .
Grid has properties to control spacing between rows and columns. The following properties are available for customizing the Grid:
ColumnSpacing – the amount of space between columns. The default value of this property is 6.
RowSpacing – the amount of space between rows. The default value of this property is 6.
You can set RowSpacing or ColumnSpacing to check whether can solve it .
<StackLayout Padding="5">
<Grid RowSpacing="5" ColumnSpacing="5">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Image Source="icon.png" BackgroundColor="Accent"/>
<Image Source="icon.png"
BackgroundColor="Accent"
Grid.Column="1" />
<Image Source="icon.png"
BackgroundColor="Accent"
Grid.Row="1" />
<Image Source="icon.png"
BackgroundColor="Accent"
Grid.Column="1"
Grid.Row="1" />
</Grid>
</StackLayout>
About Image , The Aspect property determines how the image will be scaled to fit the display area, with Fill or AspectFill .(Default is AspectFit)
I have a WPF application where I use a background image.
<Window.Background>
<ImageBrush ImageSource="Images/background.png"/>
</Window.Background>
In the window I have grids and columns definitions.
<Grid ShowGridLines="False">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition/>
<ColumnDefinition/>
<ColumnDefinition/>
<ColumnDefinition/>
<ColumnDefinition/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
Everytime the window size is changed, the background image is resized, which is okay.
The problem is that the controls in the form are loosing their position.
The background looks this way:
I need to add textboxes in between the lines so it can look like this:
So far I tried canvas, dockpanel, putting the textboxes in different user control, but nothing helped.
The controls do not have margins/width or height only rowspan and columnspan.
Any idea would be helpful :) thanks!
Your Textboxes need to be sized relative to the window size. You can define the colum widths and line heights as fractions of the width and height by specifying a size with a star (*).
See example below for a starting point. You can of course tweak the numbers a bit.
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.2*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.29*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.02*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.29*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.2*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="0.55*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="0.1*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="0.1*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="0.1*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="0.1*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<TextBox Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1"/>
<TextBox Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="3"/>
<TextBox Grid.Row="3" Grid.Column="1"/>
<TextBox Grid.Row="3" Grid.Column="3"/>
</Grid>
How can I put button into row which is inside column?
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="200" />
<ColumnDefinition MinWidth="300" Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Column="1">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition MaxHeight="50" MinHeight="50"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
</Grid>
Grid.Row="2" is out of index. Grid.Colum="1" puts the button into correct column. What might be the correct way to use those rows?
Your initial row index guess was correct. You just need to put your button in the proper place in your XAML.
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="200" />
<ColumnDefinition MinWidth="300" Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Column="1">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition MaxHeight="50" MinHeight="50"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Button Grid.Row="2"/>
</Grid>
</Grid>
I have some label "my text".
I have some UserControl, inside it have text ("text part") and some visual part near text.
Left picture is what i want to achieve. Right is what i got.
I want center my UserControl not by its default center but by custom point.
Because "my text" may vary in length, meanwhile it should be centered relative to my controls "text part" center.
Goal ^ Current ^
You will need to define separate columns, one which is centered for your centered texts, and another one for your visual label.
The tricky part now is synchronizing one column from within the UserControl with one outside of it. You can use SharedSizeGroups for this, like in this example, I just used a ContentControl instead of the UserControl for convenience:
<Grid IsSharedSizeScope="True">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Background="Red">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" SharedSizeGroup="colLeft"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" SharedSizeGroup="colRight"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Label HorizontalAlignment="Center" Background="LightBlue">MyText</Label>
</Grid>
<ContentControl Grid.Row="1">
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Background="Yellow">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" SharedSizeGroup="colLeft"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" SharedSizeGroup="colRight"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Label HorizontalAlignment="Center" Background="Lime">text part a little longer
</Label>
<Label Grid.Column="1">someVisualLabel</Label>
</Grid>
</ContentControl>