I am setting the background color of my Canvas as 'white'. However when I compare my canvas with a vendor application, their canvas is 'whiter', which is the color I want for my canvas too. I have looked at all the color choices available for canvas background color but nothing makes my canvas any whiter than it is. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Simple solution:
Use one of the browser plugins to get the actual "white" color of their app.
One example of a color-picker is Chrome plus the ColorZilla extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorzilla/bhlhnicpbhignbdhedgjhgdocnmhomnp
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I'm using Wizard control of Extended wpf toolkit package.
I would like to change color of the border. See sky blue in image below:
I tried set broder brush\background to wizard\wizard page\window controls, but it failed.
Anybody know how to change it?
Your assistance is appreciated!
Now that you have provided more info, I can see that your question title does not match what you asking to change. You are not asking to change the color of the border of the Wizard Control, you are asking to change the color of the WPF Window.
It takes some time to get things right, and I highly discourage doing this if you app will be used by people with disabilities, who need high contrast, who customized their desktop to a certain color because of color blindness, and the list goes on...Microsoft has worked very hard to address such issues with the defaults.
BUT...you can change this by restyling your Window Style. You can find plenty of code examples.
Here are two:
Can i set the window border color in WPF?
How can I style the border and title bar of a window in WPF?
My WPF VS 2008 application is working with many different images that are assembled and displayed at runtime. I would like to display some white text on top of those images. My problem is that some images contain a white or light color background.
My question is - is it possible to somehow specify a property or specify a setting in the image object, BitmapImage object (where the image is loaded from), or some other WPF object such that when white pixels from one image overlap white pixels from the other image - they turn a different color so the text will be viewable?
I think it depends on how you 'draw' your text on the images. If you use e.g. a Label, you can try out the 'DropShadowEffect', see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms748273.aspx
This effect should work with all WPF objects and you can try out some transparent black soft shadows surrounding the text (a little bit like a glow).
This will only be visible in bright environments if you adjust the opacity right.
Decided to use a dark background color for the text that is only partially (.35) opaque. This means that the background color of the image comes through for the most part, but for lighter colors it yields enough contrast so that the text is viewable.
I want to create animation like this image, i'm wondering how do i get start for this ? in silverlight xaml
this bar will increased or decreased in animation
thanks for any help
I would create image overlay to create grid effect and would draw solid rectangles under the image. Animate rectangles using standard XAML animations.
Or even better: animate black overlay rectangles covering top of bars.
Sent from windows phone.
I create a Silverlight OOB application in which I try to change the background color of the window transparent. I would like to use as wallpaper its own image. This is not square and therefore interferes with the white background color of the main window.
In the OutOfBrowserSettings I can put as the "Window Style" to "none ".
In WPF there are the two following window properties:
AllowsTransparency = "True"
Background = "Transparent"
Unfortunately, this does not seem to know about Silverlight, though! Does anyone know how I get the background color of the main window transparent?
Have you tried to set beackground to {x:Null}? Or maybe to set the alpha in color to 0 which means transparent. For example #00FFFFFF or #00000000.
This is not possible with the current version (4) of Silverlight.
I want to fade some elements (rectangles and ellipses) from the accent color to transparent using a LinearGradientBrush. However - the transparent color is always a color and it seems like the color "Transparent" is #00FFFFFF - that is white with 0% opacity.
I would like to fade from PhoneAccentColor to PhoneTransparentAccentColor. So if my accent color is red I would like to fade to #00FF0000 and if it is green I would like to fade to #0000FF00.
I can't find any built in color resource for transparent accent so what are my options here? I've tried the options below but with no real success and I can't find much on this topic by normal search channels so I'm not really sure what I'm missing here.
Some suggestions I came up with (however with no real success as stated earlier):
Create a custom resource in code behind and push it into the application wide resource dictionary?
Can I expose a property on my ViewModels with the Color and bind to it?
I can't think of a way to specify a transparent accent color directly with xaml. I do have a couple of possible solutions.
If possible you could animate the opacity of the object rather than the color itself.
Of you could generate the color in code (probably during start up)
var accentColor = (Color)Application.Current.Resources["PhoneAccentColor"];
var transparentAccentColor = accentColor.A = 0;
You could then store the color as a resource and reference it in xaml.
Application.Current.Resources.Add("TransparentPhoneAccentColor", transparentAccentColor);
Hope this helps.
As a general guideline, avoid using gradients on the phone due to the colour support available.
You could try using an OpacityMask in your LinearGradientBrush to achieve your desired results though.
Although not applicable in your case as you're using the accent colour, if you were able to produce images including gradients you should see How can I correct color banding in windows phone 7? for detais on how to avoid banding.