When I run the project and maximize the window, the design layout covers on the top left portion of the window. How can I fill the entire window with the layout on maximization?
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="40"/>
<RowDefinition Height="50"/>
<RowDefinition Height="320"/>
<RowDefinition Height="70" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="50" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="50" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="50" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="50" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="50" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="50" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="50" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="290" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Menu Background="#FFDED9D9" Grid.Row="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="8" />
<Menu Background="#FFDED9D9" Grid.Row="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="8" />
<DataGrid Grid.Row="2" Grid.ColumnSpan="8" />
<StatusBar Grid.Row="3" Background="#FFDED9D9" Grid.ColumnSpan="8" Margin="0,0,0,30" />
</Grid>
Instead of setting Height and Width of all Rows and Columns of LayoutGrid, set Height and Width of any one Column and Row as *
Here, for example your DataGrid row can have Height as * <RowDefinition Height="*"/>. Similarly last ColumnDefinition can be <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
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My DataGrid is not taking the whole space when I maximize the window in my WPF application. This is how I created the layout:
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Width="265">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="200" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Label Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Content="Date From:" />
<Label Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Content="Date To:" />
<DatePicker Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" Margin="3" x:Name="DateFrom" />
<DatePicker Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" Margin="3" x:Name="DateTo" />
<Button Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2" HorizontalAlignment="Right"
MinWidth="80" Margin="3" Content="Send" Click="PopulateGrid" x:Name="BtnPopulateGrid"/>
</Grid>
<StackPanel Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1">
<DataGrid Width="Auto" x:Name="Grid" Height="553"
Padding="10 0 0 0" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible" Margin="10,0,-707,0" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
and this is how it looks like on regular size:
and this is how it looks like when window is max:
What can I try next? I am new to WPF.
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="200" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Label Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Content="Date From:" />
<Label Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Content="Date To:" />
<DatePicker Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" Margin="3" x:Name="DateFrom" />
<DatePicker Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" Margin="3" x:Name="DateTo" />
<Button Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2" HorizontalAlignment="Right" MinWidth="80" Margin="3" Content="Send" Click="PopulateGrid" x:Name="BtnPopulateGrid"/>
</Grid>
<Grid Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1">
<DataGrid x:Name="Grid" Padding="10 0 0 0" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
Firstly if you wanna make your datagrid fill a container automatically, you need to use Grid, not StackPanel also your datagrid sizes need to be set auto.
Edit:
As #Erjon said : You don't have to use a container when you have a single DataGrid.But if you have more components with your DataGrid, Grid will be a better container choice instead of StackPanel.
Your main GridDefination sizes were set as Auto, that was wrong.You need to work with "*" if you want a resposive design.Auto means that "Set this control's size with its children".
Try adding in the datagrid ColumnWidth="*"
It will expand all columns to avaiable space and the datagrid will fill it's parent
The second ColumnDefinition of the first grid should be <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
And as #Zacos said in my answers comment you have to remove Width
In the WPF grid below, the middle column is not 6. Text B is all the way to the right instead of 6 away from Text A. I have tried * instead of Auto for the other columns but the result is the same.
How do I make the middle column 6? Is there a workaround? Why is it happening? Is it intended behaviour or a bug?
I make my grids this way so that I don't have to set a margin on every element.
<ScrollViewer HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="6" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="6" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<TextBlock Grid.ColumnSpan="3" Grid.Column="0" HorizontalAlignment="Left">xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="2">Text A</TextBlock>
<Rectangle Fill="YellowGreen" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" />
<TextBlock Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="2" Background="LightCoral">Text B</TextBlock>
</Grid>
</ScrollViewer>
Note: My window width is Auto.
Edit:
Using #flq's solution but added a scrollviewer with horizontal scrolling, the problem is back. It's probably the same reason as why the solution doesn't show properly in the designer, something to do with WPF not knowing how to calculate widths without a constraining width.
I cannot confirm that setting the third column to * does not work. With the following XAML:
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Left">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="6" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="6" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<TextBlock Grid.ColumnSpan="3" Grid.Column="0" HorizontalAlignment="Left">xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="2">Text A</TextBlock>
<Rectangle Fill="YellowGreen" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" />
<TextBlock Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="2" Background="LightCoral">Text B</TextBlock>
</Grid>
I get this:
I think you want to use "*" on the other columns that are not a fixed length
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="6" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
How do I make the middle column 6? Is there a workaround?
Solved by setting a MaxWidth inside the ScrollViewer (I used the largest double value).
Why is it happening? Is it intended behaviour or a bug?
In a ScrollViewer (or the designer), there is no maximum width. Somewhere in the layout calculations it is assigning the column width as 6 + *.
I think ultimately it is a bug because the column width can be calculated without needing a max width (it is specified as a fixed value and does not even need to be calculated).
<ScrollViewer HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
<Grid MaxWidth="1.79769E308">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="6" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="6" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<TextBlock Grid.ColumnSpan="4">xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="2">Text A</TextBlock>
<Rectangle Fill="YellowGreen" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2" />
<TextBlock Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="2" Background="LightCoral">Text B</TextBlock>
</Grid>
</ScrollViewer>
I have the following XAML which shows a textblock in a grid. The problem is that it just stretches out, it even stretches itself greater than the windows width.
<Grid Background="Gray">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Label Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Padding="0" FontWeight="Bold" Margin="0,0,5,0">Description:</Label>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" Text="{Binding Description}" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" />
</Grid>
You need to restrict the width of the second column to make the text wrap -
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
I have a grid with an overlaying separator which I am using as a cursor for the grid. I am programmatically moving the separator on the grid by setting the margin to a percentage of the grid ActualHeight. This works fine until the margin is set to more than (grid.ActualHeight / 2) at which point the separator is no longer visible.
I have tried setting the vertical alignment (which is defaulted to Top) to Bottom or Center and changing the location accordingly with similar results.
Is there some reason why the grid hides the separator? And how can I ensure the separator is visible?
Thanks,
Stuart
Edit:
Here is the XAML for the grid. Borders are added to the grid programmatically, which is why the grid contains the rows and columns.
<Grid Name="graph1" Grid.Row="1" Margin="2" MouseLeftButtonDown="MouseDown" Background="#00000000">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Separator Name="graph1Cursor" Grid.RowSpan="5" Grid.ColumnSpan="6" VerticalAlignment="Top"/>
</Grid>
And the code I am using for setting the margin:
graph1Cursor.Margin = new Thickness(0, y, 0, y);
where y is the height of the cursor location with respect to the ActualHeight of the grid.
I found a solution, although I'm not sure why the solution works over the original... Instead of putting the separator in the Grid directly, I nested it within a StackPanel. All the code other than that remained the same.
Here is the XAML for the Grid with nested StackPanel:
<Grid Name="graph1" Grid.Row="1" Margin="2" MouseLeftButtonDown="MouseDown" Background="#00000000">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel Grid.RowSpan="5" Grid.ColumnSpan="6">
<Separator Name="graph1Cursor" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
I will mark this as answered. If anyone has a better solution, I will remark it.
A other solution is to set the Grid.Row-Property from the Separator instead the Grid.RowSpan-Property and than in your code only set again the Row-Property:
Xaml:
<Grid Name="graph1" Grid.Row="1" Margin="2" Background="#00000000">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Button Click="Button_Click"/>
<Separator Name="graph1Cursor" Grid.Row="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="6" VerticalAlignment="Top"/>
</Grid>
In your code, yo set the Row-Property from the graph1Cursor:
Grid.SetRow(graph1Cursor, 4);
So for example... in the following user control I have a grid with two rows. I want the bottom row to be the height of it's contents and the top row to be the height of the rest of the grid. I can set a absolute height as in the example, but that isn't particularly flexible. Say someone changes a font sizing the text could get clipped. Is there any built in way to achieve this?
<UserControl x:Class="Tournament.View.TeamCreator"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" >
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White" ShowGridLines="True">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="1*" />
<RowDefinition Height="20" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Row="1" >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="1*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" Text="TEAM NAME" />
<TextBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" />
<TextBlock Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="0" Text="MANAGER NAME" />
<TextBox Grid.Column="3" Grid.Row="0" />
<Button Grid.Column="4" Grid.Row="0" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
</UserControl>
In WPF this is as simple as:
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="1*" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
I suspect the same works in Silverlight?