I have two sets of controls within a row. They are both in their respective stack panels. The first is aligned to the left and the second is aligned to the right. It looks good, except that the controls on the right are cut off by the application window. I can stretch out the window with my mouse and it looks fine, but it would be better if the buttons would just push in as the application window collapses.
Here is the xaml:
<Grid Grid.Row="5">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"></ColumnDefinition>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel Grid.Column="0"
Orientation="Horizontal"
HorizontalAlignment="Left">
<Label Content="Instant Message Text"
Margin="5"></Label>
<TextBox x:Name="txt_Message"
Width="400"></TextBox>
<Button Name="btn_instantMessage"
Content="Send Message"></Button>
<Label Content="Send To All Zones"></Label>
<CheckBox Name="chk_sentMessageToAllZones"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
HorizontalAlignment="Right"></CheckBox>
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel Grid.Column="2" Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Left" >
<Button Content="Stop All Ads"
Margin="5"
Name="btn_stop"></Button>
<Button Content="Play All Ads"
Margin="5"
Name="btn_play"></Button>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
Here is a screen shot of the damage. You can see how the button "Play All Ads" is getting cut off.
You should set SizeToContent property on your window/UC.
SizeToContent="Width"
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I have this WPF button in my StackPanel:
<StackPanel Grid.ColumnSpan="6" Grid.Row="12" Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Center" Background="LightGray" Height="40">
<Button x:Name="btnSave" Click="btnSave_Click" Content="{x:Static res:Strings.ToolPanelEditView_Button_Save}" HorizontalAlignment="Right" />
</StackPanel>
For some reason, the button shows on the left although I set its HorizontalAlignment to Right:
How can I make my save button show on the right?
P.S. when I change the StackPanel's HorizontalAlignment to Right instead of Stretch, the button does show on the right like it should (but then the gray background of the StackPanel does not stretch either...
I think that a Grid is more appropriate for your case
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Center" Background="LightGray" Height="40">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Button x:Name="btnSave" Grid.Column="1" Content="Save" HorizontalAlignment="Right" />
<!--Your Other Button Grid.Column="2"-->
</Grid>
or you could as well replace the stackPanel with a DockPanel
You can use DockPanel as container, stretch it and dock your button to the right side
<DockPanel Grid.ColumnSpan="6" Grid.Row="12" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Center" Background="LightGray" Height="40">
<Button Content="Save" DockPanel.Dock="Right"/>
<Button Content="Cancel" DockPanel.Dock="Right"/>
</DockPanel>
I'm trying to create a custom expander header that will show one text box on the left, and several others on the right, and as the windows grows horizontally the left and right text blocks get further apart. It feels like this should work, but everything stays left justified.
<Expander.Header>
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" Name="LeftJustifiedCol" ></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" Name="EmptySpaceCol" ></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" Name="RightJustifiedCol" ></ColumnDefinition>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="0" Margin="5,0,5,0" Text="{Binding GroupByValue}"></TextBlock>
<DockPanel Grid.Column="2" HorizontalAlignment="Right">
<TextBlock DockPanel.Dock="Right" Margin="5,0,5,0" Text="Net: $0.00"></TextBlock>
<Button DockPanel.Dock="Right" Margin="5,0,5,0" Width="Auto" Name="DeleteEntityBtn" Click="DeleteEntityBtn_Click" >Del</Button>
</DockPanel>
</Grid>
</Expander.Header>
any suggestions?
I am guessing WPF isn't rendering the middle column because it contains no content, so it takes up no space in the UI. Perhaps a DockPanel with LastChildFill="False" would work better than a Grid
For a WPF application I have a user control MyUsrCntrl with Height=300 and Width=300
When i place MyUsrCntrl in a window and set its size to 600x600 the user control get resized but the controls in that does not get resized ,
is there any solution for this.
If you want to extend and compress the height and Width of your Usercontrol then make the Parent Controls Height="*" and Width="*" and don't assign any height and width to your controls present inside UserControl. Something like:
<Grid Margin="4" Background="Orange">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="50"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel Grid.Column="0">
<TextBlock Text="It is fixed" Margin="1"/>
<Button Content="It is fixed"/>
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel Grid.Column="1">
<TextBlock Text="It is variable" Margin="1"/>
<Button Content="It is fixed" Margin="2"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
I want to design a browse files control. Basically it is a textbox + button('...') + button ('upload')
Can I use a stackpanel for this? I want the two buttons to be on the right end of the panel. Upload button will be visible only if the textbox has text. The textbox should fill all the space.
Do you have an example hoe to put the first button('...') in the textbox itself?
Thanks a lot,
Radu
I would use a Grid instead. The StackPanel won't stretch the textbox.
<Grid >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="70"/>
<ColumnDefinition/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="26"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="60"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="File Path:" TextAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Center" Margin="0 0 10 0"/>
<TextBox Name="txtFilePath" Grid.Column="1" Margin="2"></TextBox>
<Button Name="btnPrompt" Content="..." Grid.Column="2" Margin="2"></Button>
<Button Name="btnUpload" Content="Upload" Grid.Column="3" Margin="2"></Button>
</Grid>
I am going through the process of designing my first Silverlight application based upon the PivotViewer control from Silverlight 4. I am having problems organizing the bar at the top as per my design:
(source: richard-slater.co.uk)
I have found ways of left aligning the Logo and Title, a way of right aligning the buttons with various combinations of panels however there are two major problems with it.
The XAML looks really really ugly, nesting panels seems to work but doesn't seem like good practice.
I can't seem to find a way of handling resizing the window down without either clipping or overlapping.
I have acheived the best results with the following code:
<StackPanel x:Name="LayoutHeader" Margin="4" Height="50" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" Orientation="Horizontal">
<Image x:Name="LogoImage" Height="50" Width="50" Source="/EVEMonPivot;component/EVEMonLogoBlue.png" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" />
<TextBlock x:Name="TitleText" Height="50" Text="EVEMon Pivot" FontSize="40" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" VerticalAlignment="Center" FontWeight="Bold" Padding="10,0,0,0" />
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel x:Name="NavHeader" Margin="4" Height="50" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Right">
<Button x:Name="StackExButton" Style="{StaticResource NavButton}" Click="StackExButton_Click">EVE Online StackExchange</Button>
<Button x:Name="BugsButton" Style="{StaticResource NavButton}">Bugs & Suggestions</Button>
</StackPanel>
I intend to move some of the properties into styles, however it still feels messy.
The above code can also result in the following in small windows:
(source: richard-slater.co.uk)
Is there a better way?
If you don't like nesting panels, a Grid might be a better option. With your four elements, have a five column grid like this:
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Image x:Name="LogoImage"
Height="50"
Width="50"
Source="/EVEMonPivot;component/EVEMonLogoBlue.png"
Grid.Column="0" />
<TextBlock x:Name="TitleText"
Height="50"
Text="EVEMon Pivot"
FontSize="40"
Grid.Column="1"
Grid.Row="0"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
FontWeight="Bold"
Padding="10,0,0,0" />
<Button x:Name="StackExButton"
Grid.Column="4"
Style="{StaticResource NavButton}"
Click="StackExButton_Click">EVE Online StackExchange</Button>
<Button x:Name="BugsButton"
Grid.Column="5"
Style="{StaticResource NavButton}">Bugs & Suggestions</Button>
</Grid>
This sets four columns to Auto-size, so they adjust to the size of your UI elements, and the centre column is Star-sized so it fills the rest of the space between them.
While you can use a star-sized grid column to enforce a collapsible region between the controls, you're still left to account for what happens when there simply isn't enough room (eg. 600 pixels of display in a 400-pixel wide area.) What I think you need is a ScrollViewer, which is a ContentControl that lets you determine when scroll bars appear.
In the markup below I am doing 2 things: First, I am using the Silverlight toolkit's DockPanel to isolate the left and right sections of the display (a very similar thing can be accomplished with a 3-column Grid with Cols 0 and 2 set to "Auto" and Col 1 set to "*", but the specific use of Left and Right in the DockPanel may make the intent more readable.) Second, the whole thing is being wrapped in a ScrollViewer with the HorizontalScrollBarVisibility set to "Auto" - when the contents is too big to fit, put up a scrollbar.
<UserControl xmlns:toolkit="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation/toolkit" x:Class="SilverlightApplication2.MainPage"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d"
d:DesignHeight="300" d:DesignWidth="400">
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<ScrollViewer Grid.Row="0" HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
<toolkit:DockPanel >
<StackPanel toolkit:DockPanel.Dock="Left" Orientation="Horizontal" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="50" Margin="5">
<TextBlock Text="Some long text" FontSize="30"/>
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel toolkit:DockPanel.Dock="Right" Orientation="Horizontal" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Height="50" Margin="5">
<Button Content="First Button" Margin="5"/>
<Button Content="Second Button" Margin="5"/>
</StackPanel>
</toolkit:DockPanel>
</ScrollViewer>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="1" Text="Body Content (DataGrid, etc.)" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
</Grid>