I've been trying to get this working for a few hours now.
I have a Listbox control with items from a database in it. I have 2 window states, "default", and "details". I'd like to use the GoToStateAction behavior in the ItemTemplate so that when any item in the listbox is clicked it'll change the window state to "details".
I have been trying to set the TargetObject property of the behavior to the window, but I can't.
Am I missing something, or doing something wrong? Any help would be appreciated.
Have you tried TargetObject="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type Window}}}"?
You might want to change the type to something like {x:Type local:MyWindowType}.
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For some reason, i have this animation/effect by default when I press any items of my ListView (chat). I dont have any codes for that, it is just present/default.
Why is that? How can I turn it off or on?
It called "Ripple effect".
there are many related question in SO, see this https://stackoverflow.com/a/27237195/3814729 .
I am doing a windows phone app that I have a 6 x 6 grid of checkboxes, They have to be sized specifically to line up with a background image. I can get the content size correct, but the entire size of the control is too big. I am using the default controltemplate, and I have tried to set the padding to alter the padding between the content and the outer margin of the control but it does not change.
<CheckBox x:Name="chkc1r1" Content="" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="42,24,0,0"
VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="58" Width="42" Tap="chkc1r1_Tap"
BorderThickness="0" UseLayoutRounding="True" Padding="-10"/>
What am I missing here?
After doing some more digging, I found that the property that I looking for is the touch overhang property, has anyone ever altered this property? A very old post that says it can be done in the App.xaml, but did not say how. Anyone have any Ideas?
Anyone have any Ideas?
Specify your own control template for your checkboxes. In Blend, right-click on a checkbox, "Edit Template/Edit a copy", save. Then in visual studio edit the template, replacing "{StaticResource PhoneTouchTargetOverhang}" with e.g. "0".
I have a registration form on my layout grid, made out of a stackPanel. Textboxes are taking most of the screen (800px) along with a button. When user is positioned in one of the text boxes, keyboard covers almost half the screen and in order to access boxes below, they first have to click somewhere blank to remove the keyboard and then click another box. It isn't possible to scroll down.
I want to enable same behaviour like when editing name in contacts, but didn't manage yet. How to achieve this?
Try wrapping it into a ListBox or a ScrollViewer (probably easier), like so:
<ScrollViewer>
...
</ScrollViewer>
Also, check to make sure you don't have the same problem described here.
I'm not a WP7 developer but here's what I do in Android and iOS and you may get a hint of what to do.
I wrap my forms in a Scrollable View. This gives easy scrollable features to users without the need of anything else.
I have a peculiar problem in Windows Phone Development. I have 4 panorama items each of them containing a webBrowser control. On the start of the application, I have only the first panorama item visible while the remaninig are in collapsed state.
Based on the interaction in the first webBrowser, we Notify the WP7 app (webBrowser.ScriptNotify event) and decide which panoramaitems to display. The visiblity is set in the delegate that handles the ScriptNotify event.
the issue I am facing is that though i set the visibility in the delegate to Visible, it doesn't show up in the Panorama. I have tried using Dispatcher in the delegate to change visibility but it hasn't helped:
Deployment.Current.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(() => {
discussions.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
});
Can someone suggest what i could be doing incorrectly?
First of all, you shouldn't use a WebBrowser control inside a Panorama. It's very bad performance.
Secondly, Panorama and PivotItems don't have a collapsed state.
And thirdly, the dispatcher have nothing to do with this (unless you're not running the code on the UI thread).
So what you need to do, is to add the PanoramaItems dynamically to the Panorama control. This can be done by databinding (recommended), or directly from C#.
I don't know about performace but i'm sure that a PanoramaItem has a collapsed *visibility* state i tried to toggle it from code and it works like a charm if the initial state is visible.
But if the initial state is collapsed when the panorama loads then it doesn't work anymore. I guess it is because if it is collapsed then it is not included in the panorama and so it won't be visible when you set it to visible.
Maybe that's a bug or i don't know but it is a bit awkward.
To add the PanoramaItem to the Panorama could work.
I'm sorry for not answering the question but the other way around, enforcing the problem :) .
I do have the same problem, one PanoramaItem with an ItemsControl databounded to a collection of the ViewModel. The PanoramaItem visibility property is databounded to {Binding} and a CollectionToVisibility converter is used. During debug with a breakpoint set inside the converter code I managed to see that the return value is ok but the PanoramaItem is not visible when the collections has items.
My investigation took me to realize that in fact when the first get to the Collection occours the return value is null because the Collection data comes from a async call to a service and the converter return value is Visibility.Collapsed, and only when the Collection is populated and the PropertyChanged event is raised, the second get to the Collection property triggers the databind refresh and the return value of the converter is now Visibility.Visible, this leeds me to think that the PanoramaItem isn't included in the Panorama control tree during the applytemplate because the visibility is set to collapsed, and after that the UI never loads the PanoramaItem again.
I made a test to verify this scenario returning in the get of the Collection property an hardcoded list of items so that the first get have items in it and the converter returns Visible in the first get request.Everything works like a charm.I can even string the collection out of items and it gets collapsed and the other way around.
All this is pure Xaml, no code behind.
The intent of this is to hide PanoramaItems that for some reason does not have content to show.
Basically, the panorama keeps an internal list of visible item. This list isn't updated when you set an item to visible. The easiest way to force the control to update this list is setting the MainItem property. So after setting the visibility of your panorama item, just add the following line:
yourPanorama.DefaultItem = yourPanorama.DefaultItem;
(given that the panorama is called yourPanorama)
Windows Phone 7's People hub has an "all" panorama item with "search" and a "new" buttons right next to the header/title.
I can't seem to accomplish this with PanoramaItem in Visual Studio using the standard Panorama control. I don't know enough Silverlight/WPF either to be able to position something manually and control transitions/movement correctly.
How can I set a button (or any object, for that matter) to go alongside the header of a wp7 PanoramaItem?
Thanks!
A PanoramaItem Header doesn't have to be a string. It could be another StackPanel that has a CheckBox in it if you wanted, something like this:
<controls:PanoramaItem>
<controls:PanoramaItem.Header>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBlock>Item</TextBlock>
<CheckBox>CheckBox</CheckBox>
</StackPanel>
</controls:PanoramaItem.Header>
<Grid>
<TextBlock>Your Content</TextBlock>
</Grid>
</controls:PanoramaItem>
So you can basically put anything in there that you want. Images, buttons, checkboxes, etc.