How to create custom checkbox that looks like the one shown below. The checkboxes are dynamically drawn and can have custom colors.
Well, you can just style it. Take the style from here and change it. The key component in the style is VisualStateManager, make sure you understand what it does.
Also you can create a custom control, you can read about it, for example, here.
What I would do is, create a custom control called ImageCheckBox which inherits from the default CheckBox class, add in three dependency properties of type ImageSource, called CheckedImage, IndeterminateImage and UncheckedImage. Just toggle their Visibility or Opacity based on the control's CheckStates, i.e. Checked, Unchecked and Indeterminate.
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I am making a template using Usercontrol in WPF(C#).
However, when applying this user control, is it possible to subtract a specific part? For example, removing a button?
To substract specific parts from UserControl, Visibility (Collapse, Hidden) option can be used.
Make sure to add dependency property in UserControl for Visibility to show & hide specific part.
It sounds like you are just trying to hide an existing button, which you should do by setting Visibility to Visibility.Collapsed or Visibility.Hidden. This should be done through a binding to the ViewModel of your user control.
If you need a pure XAML solution: No it is not possible as such. However, the reverse is possible: you can add content to a user control, and that effectively provides the same functionality.
What you could do is make a base user control that doesn't contain the button, and instead has a content presenter. A second user control could wrap the base user control and define a button as its content. Then when you don't want to use the user control with the button you can simply create an instance of the base user control.
I would like to create a custom button template that has a predefined content: a vector image (Path) and text (TextBlock). Then I would like to define a style that, for example, would control the Path.Fill or TextBlock.Foreground based on different visual states.
What is the best approach to achieve this? Do I need to create a custom control that inherits from ButtonBase, and then expose dependency properties for Path and Text, or is there a better way?
Just to be clear, the idea is that later I can create multiple instances of this button, and just assign to it a Path and a Text.
Define a Style for the Button, set the ControlTemplate in the style to use the Path and TextBlock. Define a couple of Attached Properties to modify Path and TextBlock visual state, if you have a need for something beyond what a button template could provide you.
In my app, there is a feature to customize it's own Controls (like Textbox, Labels, Textblocks, Buttons, etc), this feature interface is located inside a TabItem. Lets say i want to modify Button A, which is located in ANOTHER container. On the feature interface, i set it's Foreground property to White, at this moment i don't know whether the Button looks better or not, so i have to go to the container which contains that Button.
What am i trying to do is, i want to create a "preview" Control (which is the same type as the actual target) inside the feature interface. I want any changes on this "preview" control are reflected to the actual target Control. With this, i won't need to navigate to where the target Control located.
When i used the title ("How do you bind 2 controls)" with google, all results actually gives me "how to bind SINGLE property of a control to another control's property". What i want is how do you bind/link 2 Controls literally, i mean, i want to bind ALL properties of Control A to ALL properties of Control B.
Binding them one by one is one (tiring) way. Is there another way to achieve this?
I would prefer code-behind method.
There is no "fast" way to do this, you will have to bind one by one according to your buisness logic.
Also a binding is not cheap regarding performance so binding each and every property of a control even those you dont explicitly need, is a warning sign.
I am aiming at creating different UserControls for my college project, in which I am attempting to use ContentControl to wrap my UserControl. I've placed other Controls like Image, WebBrowser, MediaElement and the like, now I have reached a stage where I need to set the properties for my UserControls. Thus, I thought of making use of PropertyGrid Control, but now the problem I am facing is in the PropertyGrid control, as I get all the default properties of the Controls, which in my case I don't want.
For Eg: if I use Image Control then i need properties like Source and Stretch to be displayed only in the PropertyGrid. Can anyone help me in achieving this?
I tried to override some default properties like "Name" and assign it as [Browsable(false)] to hide it from being displayed. I don't want to do this for all the other properties which are being displayed and which are not under my requirements as well.
I am using Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit for my PropertyGrid.
It is explained in the documentation on how to do that:
http://wpftoolkit.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=PropertyGrid
When you change the selected object see SelectedObjectType and set PropertyDefinitions in code to match the properties you want to see for that type of object.
Is there a way to make a "click-to-edit" control in silverlight? I've got some items that
will be displayed in a treeview control, and I would like the labels to be editable directly in the treeview.
Anyone know how to do this?
Very easy actually. I have implemented many forms with such a swapping mechanism.
You could do this using a Converter and do a simple BooleanToVisibility conversion on an IsEditable property that exists on the entities that you bind to your TreeView. Within your TreeView ItemTemplate just bind the TextBlock in such a way that it is Collapsed whenever the IsEditable property is true and bind the TextBox in such a way that it is collapesed when IsEditable property is false (and vice versa).
If you wanted to build a custom ClickToEdit control you would need to do the following:
Create a class that inherits from ContentControl
Expose a new dependency properties of type DataTemplate: one called EditableTemplate.
Add a MouseLeftButtonUp event handler inside your OnApplyTemplate to listen for the click.
Change the active content template to be your EditableTemplate on the click event.
Change the template back when the control loses focus.
Now to use your custom control inside TreeView:
Override your ItemTemplate for your TreeView
Put your custom ClickToEdit control inside there
Implementing a custom control would allow you (or other developers) to easily specify what control they wanted to use as the content editor. For example, they could specify a NumericUpDown or a DateTimePicker instead of just using a TextBox.
Check out DataForm in Silverlight 3. It has similar functionality but the switching of the editable vs. read-only is not done by a click.