I have a image that I want to have a larger preview using a tooltip.
<Image MaxWidth="585" Margin="2" Source="{Binding Preview, IsAsync=true}">
<Image.ToolTip MaxWidth="800"> <!-- Error: Attribute "MaxWidth" is not allowed in property element -->
<Image Source="{Binding Preview, IsAsync=true}" />
</Image.ToolTip>
</Image>
How do I change the MaxWidth property of the ToolTip? Second question: How can I use the parent Source value within the child binding?
The issue is the ToolTip property is of type object, so it does not have a MaxWidth property. Because the ToolTip can accept an arbitrary object, to set the MaxWidth you should put a ToolTip (or another WPF element) inside of the ToolTip property and set the MaxWidth on that.
Something like:
<Image MaxWidth="585" Margin="2" Source="{Binding Preview, IsAsync=true}">
<Image.ToolTip>
<ToolTip MaxWidth="1000" MaxHeight="600">
<Image Source="{Binding Preview, IsAsync=true}" />
</ToolTip>
</Image.ToolTip>
</Image>
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I have a user control that shows a TextBox along with a small help icon.
My goal is to have a ToolTip pop-up, show some databound text and stay open when the mouse hovers over the help icon.
So, to that end I have created a HelpText dependency property in the user control allowing me to bind a help text string to the user control.
So, my user control looks something like this
<UserControl Name="textField" ...>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBox Text="{Binding ElementName=textField,Path=Text}"/>
<Image Source="{StaticResource Help.Icon}">
<Image.ToolTip>
<ToolTip Content="{Binding ElementName=textField,Path=HelpText}"/>
</Image.ToolTip>
</Image>
</StackPanel>
</UserControl>
This code does show the tooltip, except that it is empty! Also, the StaysOpen property does not make any difference as the tooltip shuts down after a few seconds.
Funny thing is that when I set the same binding directly on the Image control's ToolTip property the bound text is shown allright in the tooltip pop-up, however it still does not stay open:
<Image Source="{StaticResource Help.Icon}" ToolTip="{Binding ElementName=textField,Path=HelpText}">
So my to questions are:
How come the binding against the user control's HelpText dependency property does not work in the first code sample but does work in the second?
How do I make the ToolTip stay open or rather how do I make the ToolTip both stay open and show the databound text?
Thanks!
ToolTips are not part of the same VisualTree as the rest of your XAML, so the DataContext is not inherited the way you would expect it to be.
Writing ToolTip="{Binding SomeProperty}" will automatically set the ToolTip's DataContext to SomeProperty, however if you build a custom ToolTip you must do this yourself.
<ToolTip DataContext="{Binding PlacementTarget.DataContext,
RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}}" ... />
This will bind the ToolTip's DataContext to the DataContext of whatever object the ToolTip is on.
To accomplish what you're trying to do, your <ToolTip> would probably look like this, since PlacementTarget would be your Image:
<!-- Could also use something like Tag if DataContext is actually used -->
<Image DataContext="{Binding ElementName=textField, Path=HelpText}"
Source="{StaticResource Help.Icon}">
<Image.ToolTip>
<ToolTip Content="{Binding PlacementTarget.DataContext,
RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}}"/>
</Image.ToolTip>
</Image>
As for why it won't stay open, I'm not positive but it might be because the ToolTipService.ShowDuration property defaults to 5 seconds, and that probably overwrites the StaysOpen property.
You can try setting it to something higher, such as
<Image ToolTipService.ShowDuration="60000" ... />
Or you can try this workaround of using a Popup styled to look like a ToolTip instead. The code would probably look something like this:
<Popup PlacementTarget="{Binding ElementName=MyImage}"
IsOpen="{Binding IsMouseOver, ElementName=MyImage, Mode=OneWay}">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding ElementName=textField, Path=HelpText}" />
</Popup>
How do you set the Foreground colour for a single Image's ToolTip? (There are multiple Image controls on the page but I want to have the style applied to just one)
Andrew
For the image that you want to set the foreground to, add the following xaml code:
<Image Name="image1" Source="Untitled.png">
<Image.ToolTip>
<ToolTip Foreground="Red">
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock FontWeight="Bold">Submit Request</TextBlock>
<TextBlock>Submits the request to the server.</TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
</ToolTip>
</Image.ToolTip>
</Image>
The Foreground="Red" sets the color of the foreground for that specific tool tip.
OUTPUT:
SOURCE: http://wpftutorial.net/ToolTip.html
I am trying to display an image in my datagrid in a template column, the code:
<data:DataGridTemplateColumn Header="" x:Name="colPriority">
<data:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Border BorderBrush="Black" Background="{Binding TimeMarker.TimeMarkerBrush}" BorderThickness="1" Width="38" ToolTipService.ToolTip="{Binding Path=TimeMarker.TimeMarkerName, StringFormat='Priority: {0}'}">
<Image
Source="{Binding ImageFlag}"
ToolTipService.ToolTip="{Binding TaskFlagStatus}"
Height="32"
Width="32"
Margin="3"/>
</Border>
</DataTemplate>
</data:DataGridTemplateColumn.CellTemplate>
</data:DataGridTemplateColumn>
'ImageFlag' is a property of type 'image' in my object. The problem is that it is not showing up. When I change the source in the xaml to the relative URI of an image it shows up fine, but it won't show the image that is stored in the 'ImageFlag' property of my object. Why?
The object type you should be exposing in your model should be one that derives from ImageSource such as BitmapImage.
The Image class is the element that displays an ImageSource, you can't assign an instance of Image to the Source property of another Image.
I have a tooltip on an image inside of a listbox. The tooltip is setup as follows:
<Image Grid.Column="0" Source="{Binding PingRankImage}"
Width="16" Height="16"
HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<Image.ToolTip>
<ToolTip Content="{Binding Ping, StringFormat='Ping: {0}ms'}"
ContentStringFormat="{}Ping: {0}ms}" />
</Image.ToolTip>
</Image>
but the tooltip just displays the value and not the 'Ping: XXXms'
Any ideas?
You don't need extra {} prefix in ContentStringFormat. With ToolTip, also prefer using ContentStringFormat instead of StringFormat in binding.
Following works:
<Image.ToolTip>
<ToolTip Content="{Binding}"
ContentStringFormat="Ping: {0}ms" />
</Image.ToolTip>
I have a ListBox with a StackPanel that contains an image and label.
<ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<VirtualizingStackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" IsItemsHost="True" />
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
<Image Source="{Binding Image}" Cursor="Hand" Tag="{Binding Link}" MouseLeftButtonDown="Image_MouseLeftButtonDown" ToolTip="Click to see this product on adidas.com" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Left" />
<Label Content="{Binding Name}" Cursor="Hand" Tag="{Binding Link}" MouseLeftButtonDown="Label_MouseLeftButtonDown" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Foreground="White" Style="{StaticResource Gotham-Medium}" FontSize="8pt" HorizontalAlignment="Center" />
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
I want to show a third image (glow.png) behind the currently moused over image. I can't seem to add a second image to the stack panel, and set it's visibility to hidden. I haven't even tackled the mouseover part yet.
Is adding another image inside the stack panel, and then setting it's visibility to visible the right approach on mouseenter, and then swapping back on mouseleave?
Thanks.
You certainly can have one image behind another. Instead of directly adding the image to your StackPanel, add a Grid and then add both images, like this:
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
<Grid>
<Image Source="..." />
<Image Source="{Binding Image}" ... />
</Grid>
<Label Content="{Binding Name}" ... />
</StackPanel>
You might also like to look into Bitmap Effects, using which you can introduce a "glow" effect onto any WPF element.
Edit: Another way to achieve the effect you want (I believe) is to swap out the image's Source property in a trigger. I'm not going to try to write the XAML from memory here, but you could catch the IsMouseOver property for the image itself, and when it switches to True you could set its Source to the "glowing" version of the image.
Another possibility is to add a border to your image, set the color of the borderbrush to whatever you want and the opacity to 0. In your MouseEnter event handler set the opacity to 1.