I'm now facing the most common problem faced my many while working with listboxes. Though I found many answers the the forum, nothing seems to work for me or else i have got it wrong. .
I have created a listbox through code. Every listbox item has a stackpanel and within it two textblocks. the stackpanel has vertical orientation.The foreground of the textblocks have been set to specific colors. When an item has been selected or clicked it moves to another page and on the close of the new page it returns to the old page.
My problem is that, when a listbox item has been clicked, it does not show the selection color which is by default the phones accent color before moving to the next page. Is it because the color of the textblocks have already set while creating the listbox?
So i tried to set it the foreground of the selected item through the SelectionChanged() like this
ListBoxItem selItem = (ListBoxItem)(listboxNotes.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromIndex(listboxNotes.SelectedIndex));
selItem .Foreground = (SolidColorBrush)Application.Current.Resources["PhoneAccentBrush"];
But this does not work, and i assume its cuz there is a stackpanel inside the item.
How exactly this needs to be done? Do i need to retrieve the textblocks inside the stackpanel and set the foreground?? I have not used binding here. Visual Tree Helper???
Thanks
Alfah
In general, the selected color doesn't change on lists where you're navigating.
From my experience with android, there's no 'selector' background on WP7. If you're looking for a cool UI effect that shows some action is happening, the TiltEffect is definitely recommended, and very easy to implement.
http://www.windowsphonegeek.com/articles/Silverlight-for-WP7-Toolkit-TiltEffect-in-depth
However - if you're creating an app that doesn't have immediate navigation, it is possible that you might want a 'selected' cell color / etc. I've attached an image:
https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=ef08824b672fb5d8&resid=EF08824B672FB5D8!366&parid=EF08824B672FB5D8!343
If you note here, the buttons are related to the selected item on the list - I.e. the user can perform 4 different actions based on the selected item, (but they must select an item first!).
internal void SelectionChanged()
{
var item = (((ListBoxItem) _view.servers.SelectedItem).Content) as StackPanel;
if (item != null)
{
for (int i = 0; i < _view.servers.Items.Count; i++)
{
var val = (((ListBoxItem) _view.servers.Items[i]).Content) as StackPanel;
var tb = val.Children[0] as TextBlock;
var tb2 = val.Children[1] as TextBlock;
if (i == _view.servers.SelectedIndex)
{
tb.Foreground = tb2.Foreground = (SolidColorBrush) App.Current.Resources["PhoneAccentBrush"];
}
else
{
tb.Foreground = tb2.Foreground = (SolidColorBrush) //regular color here, b/c all these should no longer be selected
}
}
}
}
The ListItemContainer will have it's Foreground changed automatically. To inherit this, simply don't specify a colour (or style) on your TextBlock.
Related
I am writing an UI test case, in which I need to perform an action, and then on the current page, scroll the only UITableView to the bottom to check if specific text shows up inside the last cell in the UITableView.
Right now the only way I can think of is to scroll it using app.tables.cells.element(boundBy: 0).swipeUp(), but if there are too many cells, it doesn't scroll all the way to the bottom. And the number of cells in the UITableView is not always the same, I cannot swipe up more than once because there might be only one cell in the table.
One way you could go about this is by getting the last cell from the tableView. Then, run a while loop that scrolls and checks to see if the cell isHittable between each scroll. Once it's determined that isHittable == true, the element can then be asserted against.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xctest/xcuielement/1500561-ishittable
It would look something like this (Swift answer):
In your XCTestCase file, write a query to identify the table. Then, a subsequent query to identify the last cell.
let tableView = app.descendants(matching: .table).firstMatch
guard let lastCell = tableView.cells.allElementsBoundByIndex.last else { return }
Use a while loop to determine whether or not the cell isHittable/is on screen. Note: isHittable relies on the cell's userInteractionEnabled property being set to true
//Add in a count, so that the loop can escape if it's scrolled too many times
let MAX_SCROLLS = 10
var count = 0
while lastCell.isHittable == false && count < MAX_SCROLLS {
apps.swipeUp()
count += 1
}
Check the cell's text using the label property, and compare it against the expected text.
//If there is only one label within the cell
let textInLastCell = lastCell.descendants(matching: .staticText).firstMatch
XCTAssertTrue(textInLastCell.label == "Expected Text" && textInLastCell.isHittable)
Blaines answer lead me to dig a little bit more into this topic and I found a different solution that worked for me:
func testTheTest() {
let app = XCUIApplication()
app.launch()
// Opens a menu in my app which contains the table view
app.buttons["openMenu"].tap()
// Get a handle for the tableView
let listpagetableviewTable = app.tables["myTableView"]
// Get a handle for the not yet existing cell by its content text
let cell = listpagetableviewTable.staticTexts["This text is from the cell"]
// Swipe down until it is visible
while !cell.exists {
app.swipeUp()
}
// Interact with it when visible
cell.tap()
}
One thing I had to do for this in order to work is set isAccessibilityElement to true and also assign accessibilityLabel as a String to the table view so it can be queried by it within the test code.
This might not be best practice but for what I could see in my test it works very well. I don't know how it would work when the cell has no text, one might be able to reference the cell(which is not really directly referenced here) by an image view or something else. It's obviously missing the counter from Blaines answer but I left it out for simplicity reasons.
I have a number of Panels which, when expanded, show the corresponding questions for that particular 'Category'
The issue I have is, say for example I answer the questions for the 1st panel, the content will scroll down, eventually hiding the panel... fair enough.
However, when I click on the Next Category (Production Area), I need to the page to scroll back up to the first question in the Category, or maybe even just display the selected category at the top of the page.
Is this possible?
Currently, the user has to continually scroll back if when they select the next Category.
You can achieve it using scrollToElement()
var oPage = sap.ui.getCore().byId("pageId"); // you page ID
var oList = sap.ui.getCore().byId("ListId"); // element ID to which it has to scroll
if (oPage && oList) oPage.scrollToElement(oList, 1000);
Execute the above code inside the panel event expand.
you can try to use this control instead which suits your needs
https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/#/entity/sap.uxap.ObjectPageLayout
After trying everything, this is what worked for me.
onExpand: function (oEvent) {
if (oEvent.getParameters().expand) {
var focusID = oEvent.getParameter("id");
var elmnt = sap.ui.getCore().byId(focusID);
elmnt.getDomRef().scrollIntoView(true);
I have a custom drawn combobox with style CBS_DROPDOWNLIST and CBS_OWNERDRAWVARIABLE I can draw the items of the dropdownlist ok but whe user select an item it is drawn in the combobox static part [the part of combo that stay visible after selecting item and show the selection], I want to give it a custom text like in the following image
But I can't determine it I found a code like this
if(DrawItemStruct.CtlType == ODT_COMBOBOX)//the static part of the combo
DrawComboText(pDC, DrawItemStruct.itemID, &DrawItemStruct.rcItem);
else//the rest items
{
// Copy the text of the item to a string
char sItem[256];
GetString(sItem, DrawItemStruct.itemID);
biDrawText(pDC, sItem, -1, &DrawItemStruct.rcItem, f | DT_VCENTER | DT_SINGLELINE);
}
but when I used it I get all the items has CtlType == ODT_COMBOBOX, when I debugged the above code It return ODT_COMBOBOX for the static part, and for items of the drop down list it return ODT_LISTBOX.
I want to know how to fix this problem, how to detect that I'm drawing the static part or a regular item in the dropdown list?
I just check the state for ODS_COMBOBOXEDIT. If ifthe dcumentation says that this flag is set for the edit Control, it works for the drop down list to.
I have checked combo box implementation like you that works in the sane way.
bool bDrawStaticControl = (pDIS->itemState & ODS_COMBOBOXEDIT)!=0;
I have a problem with my product view. I want to display product data. each product is a "box" with an image and text. I want to display six products on a panel. As of the fact that i have many products i want to have a "carousel like view". My idea was the following: Place 6 products on a panel. Load 3 panels and place each panel as a carousel item so that i can swipe to get to another "page".
To save performance I tried to always have only 3 items in the carousel. The active "page" and the page before, and the page after, so that I can swipe to left/right and the next page can be loaded.
I tried to put my logic in the "onActiveItemChange"-Listener of the carousel, but I had massive problems with adding/removing carousel items. So my Question is is it possible to do what i want to accomplish?
Is there a better alternative? Of course my data is in a store, but I don't want that standard list view.
Another Question: Because my first attempt with the carousel failed i tried to build a Ext.Container (card layout) with the panels on it. But how can I listen to a swipe event on a Panel???
thanks for help ;-)
Even I am doing the same, using carousel & a store. Every page of carousel is a view(panel) which would have 4/6 child views(panels). On store load I am creating those children and then divide them into pages and add those pages to carousel.
This is working fine for me and on activeItemChange I am loading more pages:
activeitemchange: function(container, value, oldValue, eOpts) {
var activeItemIndex = container.getActiveIndex();
var galleryTotal = container.getInnerItems() ? container.getInnerItems().length : 0;
if ((activeItemIndex + 1 == galleryTotal)) {
console.log("At last page, time to load");
var store = this.config.store;
store.nextPage({ addRecords: true });
}
}
I think I understand your issue. Assuming you've got 3 items and you're always viewing the middle one (as you move forward, item 0 gets destroyed and one item gets created). And assuming that each item has an id associated with its location in the list.
var current_item = Ext.getCmp('carousel_name').getActiveItem().getId();
current_item = Number(current_item.replace('item', ''));
//Objects to create
var next_item = current_item + 1;
var previous_item = current_item - 1;
//Objects to destroy
var next2_item = current_item + 2;
var previous2_item = current_item - 2;
//Create items
var createItem = function(item_location, type){
var carousel_item = create_content(item_location);
if(type == 'next'){
Ext.getCmp('carousel_name').add(carousel_item);
}else if(type == 'previous'){
Ext.getCmp('carousel_name').insert(0, carousel_item);
Ext.getCmp('carousel_name').setActiveItem(1);
}
}
createItem(next_item,'next');
createItem(previous_item,'previous');
//Destroy items
if(Ext.getCmp('item'+previous2_item)){
Ext.getCmp('carousel_name').getItems().items[0].destroy();//This is a hack, for some reason with the above commented out line, the item was getting destroyed but wasn't being removed from carousel_name
}
if(Ext.getCmp('item'+next2_item)){
Ext.getCmp('carousel_name').getItems().items[Ext.getCmp('carousel_name').getMaxItemIndex()].destroy();//This is a hack, consistency with previous destroy (above)
}
i've started WP7 development about a week ago (and programming in general) and I've been working on a little app, but i faced a problem with getting ScrollViewer to function properly.
Application creates a new pivot item when certain conditions are met, and i'm trying to add a scrollable textblock in it, which shows randomly chosen strings of text from a list every time user taps the screen, from which some are long enough to require vertical scrolling.
// A bit cleaned version of my code,
// had to translate stuff a bit for them to make sense
// Sets the PivotItem header depending on user choice
// and creates ScrollViewer and TextBlock
PivotItem newPivotItem = new PivotItem { Header = choice, Name = "newPivot"};
ScrollViewer newScrollviewer = new ScrollViewer();
TextBlock newTextBlock = new TextBlock { Text = "tap the screen", Name = choice};
newScrollviewer.Content = newTextBlock;
newPivotItem.Content = newScrollviewer;
mainPivot.Items.Add(newPivotItem);
Text is added in Tap event, which just replaces the Text property with new string. Text updates just fine and as intended, but ScrollViever stops working after update.
newString = list[rand];
PivotItem selectedPivot = mainPivot.SelectedItem as PivotItem;
TextBlock selectedText = selectedPivot.FindName(choice) as TextBlock;
selectedText.Text = newString;
selectedText.Height = selectedText.ActualHeight;
Similiar ScrollViewer - TextBlock combination in another PivotItem which is declared in xaml works just fine.
I found what actually broke the ScrollViewer, it was transition animation which i had set to trigger on text update. I had a little typing error on it and somehow while the transition worked, scrollviewer didn't.