I've created a custom Usercontrol based on the Calendar control. I would like to use this calendar as the popup control within a datepicker, though it is not a style thus:
CalendarStyle="{StaticResource customCalendar}"
Does not work.
Is there anyway to do this without having to create an entire custom DatePicker?
I have found a solution, I can actually easily do this using styling.
<Style x:Key="CustomCalendar" TargetType="Calendar">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type Calendar}">
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Center" Name="PART_Root" Background="LightGray">
<CalendarItem Background="{TemplateBinding Control.Background}" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding Control.BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding Control.BorderThickness}" Name="PART_CalendarItem" Style="{TemplateBinding Calendar.CalendarItemStyle}"/>
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</StackPanel>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
then placing all other controls I wish to use within the stack panel.
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I am using Extended Toolkit to create a wizard in WPF.
I choose PageType = WizardPageType.Blank.
I want to see an empty page, but I still see the footer area (I hide all buttons).
How can I hide this footer area?
There is no property to hide the footer area.
However, you can override the control template of the wizard. FYI, the default style is available on GitHub.
Assuming the namespace xmlns:xctk="http://schemas.xceed.com/wpf/xaml/toolkit", your "very basic" control template could look like this:
<Style TargetType="{x:Type xctk:Wizard}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type xctk:Wizard}">
<Border Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"
BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}"
BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}"
Padding="{TemplateBinding Padding}">
<Grid>
<ContentPresenter Content="{Binding CurrentPage, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}" />
</Grid>
</Border>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
Place this into Window.Resources or Application.Resources or wherever you like.
In my sample WPF-MVVM application , ihave one textbox and i have applied some Inner shade effects like this
<Style TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}" x:Key="TxtBoxStyle">
<Setter Property="Margin" Value="2,4" />
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}">
<Grid x:Name="txtgrid">
<Border x:Name="txtBorder" CornerRadius="5" Background="LightGray" BorderBrush="DarkGray"
BorderThickness="1" ClipToBounds="True">
<Border Background="Transparent" BorderBrush="Black"
BorderThickness="1" Margin="-2">
<Border.Effect>
<DropShadowEffect ShadowDepth="5" BlurRadius="10"/>
</Border.Effect>
</Border>
</Border>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
But after applying these effects I am unable to enter values in textbox.
Please let me know whether my code is correct or not.
You have replaced the default template, but not provided anywhere to display the content. Your template only contains Borders.
If you take a look at the default TextBox template, you can see that it defines a named part called PART_ContentHost that takes the content. Try adding that to your template.
<ScrollViewer Margin="0" x:Name="PART_ContentHost"/>
I'm using the well known technique of styling a list box to look like a radio button group.
The style presents a BulletDecorator for each item in the list. In order to do this I need to reference a specific theme assembly such as PresentationFramework.Aero.dll, and then explicitly use that in my style.
xmlns:theme="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Windows.Themes;assembly=PresentationFramework.Aero"
<BulletDecorator.Bullet>
<theme:BulletChrome
Background="{TemplateBinding Control.Background}"
BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding Control.BorderBrush}"
IsRound="True"
RenderMouseOver="{TemplateBinding UIElement.IsMouseOver}"
IsChecked="{TemplateBinding ListBoxItem.IsSelected}" />
</BulletDecorator.Bullet>
Is there a way to create a BulletDecorator which is styled using the current or default theme, so that I don't need to reference an explicit theme?
You don't need to recreate the RadioButton template... why don't you just use a RadioButton in the ItemContainerStyle?
<Style x:Key="RadioButtonGroup" TargetType="ListBox">
<Setter Property="ItemContainerStyle">
<Setter.Value>
<Style TargetType="ListBoxItem">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="ListBoxItem">
<RadioButton IsChecked="{TemplateBinding IsSelected}" Content="{TemplateBinding Content}" GroupName="ListBoxItems" />
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
Note that there's an issue with this approach: if you use this style for several ListBoxes in the same window, all RadioButtons will be mutually exclusive, because they will share the same GroupName. See this article for a workaround.
I've taken a DatePicker and customised the style for usage on a tablet. I'm finding that while days can be selected the month cannot be changed. Neither clicking the previous/next button or on the month name has any affect, although the mouseover style is applied.
I've taken the default Calendar style and inserted a Viewbox to increase the size, as suggested by Mike Taulty: http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2010/11/17/touched-part-5-touch-ready-controls.aspx
<Style TargetType="controls:Calendar" x:Key="TabletCalendar">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="controls:Calendar" xmlns:vsm="clr-namespace:System.Windows;assembly=System.Windows">
<StackPanel x:Name="Root" HorizontalAlignment="Center" >
<Viewbox Width="480" Height="440">
<controlsPrimitives:CalendarItem x:Name="CalendarItem" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" xmlns:controlsPrimitives="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls.Primitives;assembly=System.Windows.Controls" />
</Viewbox>
</StackPanel>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
<Style TargetType="controls:DatePicker" x:Key="TabletDatePicker">
<Setter Property="CalendarStyle" Value="{StaticResource TabletCalendar}" />
.....
</Style>
Fixed by moving the Viewbox up a level in the visual tree, not sure why there was a fault here but is working fine now!
I have a Silverlight 4 out-of-browser application with a ScrollViewer that has several RichTextBoxes inside. The RichTextBoxes are only used for displaying text, and are never edited and never scroll.
However when the mouse is hovering over a RichTextBox the mousewheel event seems to not reach the ScrollViewer. Is there any way to overcome this limitation?
The reason a readonly RichTextBox doesn't scroll is because the default template for RichTextBox uses a ScrollViewer instead of a ContentControl. So to solve the problem, you need to create your own template for RichTextBox.
What I did was to create a copy of the RichTextBox template in Blend, and strip it down for the readonly case. This removes about 90% of the template. The following style/template remains:
<Style TargetType="c:RichTextBlock">
<Setter Property="IsReadOnly" Value="True" />
<Setter Property="Background" Value="Transparent"/>
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate>
<Grid x:Name="RootElement">
<Border x:Name="Border" CornerRadius="0"
BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}"
BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}"
Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"
Padding="{TemplateBinding Padding}"
>
<ContentControl x:Name="ContentElement" IsTabStop="False" />
</Border>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
Use this style/template for your readonly RichTextBox'es, and you should be good to go.
Goood luck,
Jim McCurdy
Face to Face Software and YinYangMoney