ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames changes brush - wpf

Well hi, I am kind of new to WPF and this is the first time I tried change styles of WPF controls. Thanks to Expression Blend everything went better than expected until I made this style.
<Style TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}">
<Grid>
<VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<VisualStateGroup x:Name="CommonStates">
<VisualState x:Name="Normal"/>
<VisualState x:Name="Disabled">
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Opacity)" Storyboard.TargetName="PART_ContentHost">
<EasingDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="0.5"/>
</DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
<ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Shape.Fill).(SolidColorBrush.Color)" Storyboard.TargetName="Background">
<EasingColorKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="Red"/>
</ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
<ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Shape.Stroke).(SolidColorBrush.Color)" Storyboard.TargetName="Background">
<EasingColorKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="Yellow"/>
</ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
<VisualState x:Name="ReadOnly"/>
<VisualState x:Name="MouseOver"/>
</VisualStateGroup>
</VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<Rectangle x:Name="Background" Fill="{StaticResource ControlBackgroundBrush}" Stroke="{StaticResource NormalBrush}" RadiusX="2" RadiusY="2"/>
<ScrollViewer x:Name="PART_ContentHost" Margin="2" SnapsToDevicePixels="{TemplateBinding SnapsToDevicePixels}" FontFamily="{TemplateBinding FontFamily}"/>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Black"/>
<Setter Property="SnapsToDevicePixels" Value="True"/>
</Style>
Those two brushes are here:
<Color x:Key="MainColor">#FF595959</Color>
<Color x:Key="ControlBackgroundColor">#FF333333</Color>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="NormalBrush" Color="{DynamicResource MainColor}"/>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="ControlBackgroundBrush" Color="{StaticResource ControlBackgroundColor}" />
Well and what is the problem. Disabling TextBox should change BorderColor and Background of TextBox but it also changes color of everything what uses NormalBrush. I want to have just few brushes common for all controls to let the theme be easily modified. One more thing I use them Usualy in other styles as StaticResource. Your suggestions and help would be highly appreciated.

StaticResource is by definition STATIC (Shared), so animating a property of a STATIC resource will affect ALL elements that use the StaticResource within its scope. By marking the x:Shared attribute to FALSE, WPF will create an instance for each element that uses it versus one static resource:
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="OniiNormalBrush" x:Shared="False" Color="{StaticResource MainColor}"/>

Well I never found out why one color is changed everywhere and the second one is not. As suggested in comments I changed that style to use triggers instead of visualStates and everything works fine.
<Style TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}">
<Grid>
<Rectangle x:Name="Background" Fill="{StaticResource ControlBackgroundBrush}" Stroke="{StaticResource NormalBrush}" RadiusX="2" RadiusY="2"/>
<ScrollViewer x:Name="PART_ContentHost" Margin="2" SnapsToDevicePixels="{TemplateBinding SnapsToDevicePixels}" FontFamily="{TemplateBinding FontFamily}"/>
</Grid>
<ControlTemplate.Triggers>
<Trigger Property="IsEnabled" Value="False">
<Setter Property="Fill" TargetName="Background" Value="Red" />
<Setter Property="Stroke" TargetName="Background" Value="Green" />
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Blue" />
</Trigger>
</ControlTemplate.Triggers>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Black"/>
<Setter Property="SnapsToDevicePixels" Value="True"/>
EDIT
Everything was coused by definition of NormalBrush where Color was DynamicResource

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override control template property in XAML

If I have the following XAML defined in generic.xaml
<Style TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}">
<Setter Property="SnapsToDevicePixels" Value="True" />
<Setter Property="CaretBrush" Value="{StaticResource TextBoxCaretBrush}" />
<Setter Property="OverridesDefaultStyle" Value="True" />
<Setter Property="KeyboardNavigation.TabNavigation" Value="None" />
<Setter Property="FocusVisualStyle" Value="{x:Null}" />
<Setter Property="MinWidth" Value="120" />
<Setter Property="MinHeight" Value="20" />
<Setter Property="AllowDrop" Value="True" />
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="{StaticResource TextBoxTextBrush}" />
<Setter Property="Padding" Value="5,3,0,5" />
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type TextBoxBase}">
<Border x:Name="Border" CornerRadius="5" Padding="2" BorderThickness="1">
<Border.Background>
<SolidColorBrush Color="{StaticResource TextBoxBackgroundColor}" />
</Border.Background>
<Border.BorderBrush>
<SolidColorBrush Color="{StaticResource TextBoxBorderColor}" />
</Border.BorderBrush>
<VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<VisualStateGroup x:Name="CommonStates">
<VisualState x:Name="Normal" />
<VisualState x:Name="Disabled">
<Storyboard>
<ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetName="Border" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Panel.Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color)">
<EasingColorKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="{StaticResource DisabledControlLightColor}" />
</ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
<VisualState x:Name="ReadOnly">
<Storyboard>
<ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetName="Border" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Panel.Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color)">
<EasingColorKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="{StaticResource DisabledControlDarkColor}" />
</ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
<VisualState x:Name="MouseOver" />
</VisualStateGroup>
</VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<ScrollViewer Margin="0" x:Name="PART_ContentHost" />
</Border>
<ControlTemplate.Triggers>
<Trigger Property="IsFocused" Value="True">
<Setter Property="BorderBrush" TargetName="Border" Value="{StaticResource TextBoxBorderSelectedBrush}" />
<Setter Property="Effect">
<Setter.Value>
<DropShadowEffect ShadowDepth="0" Color="{StaticResource HighlightColor}" Opacity="1" BlurRadius="5" />
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
<Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="2" />
</Trigger>
</ControlTemplate.Triggers>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
And in my view I have defined the following XAML to display a TextBox using the above style.
<TextBox Name="UserName" attachedProperties:KeyboardNavigationExt.TabOnEnter="True" Grid.Row="1" KeyboardNavigation.TabIndex="1" Grid.Column="2" Grid.ColumnSpan="3" cal:Message.Attach="[Event TextChanged] = [Action CanLogin]" />
This display a TextBox on the view with a CornerRadius of 5 on the Border in the Template.
Now for my question, I have a scenario where there are two TextBox adjacent to each other and I would like to specify the CornerRadius for both TextBox something like the below.
<TextBox Name="UserName" CornerRadius="5,5,0,0" attachedProperties:KeyboardNavigationExt.TabOnEnter="True" Grid.Row="1" KeyboardNavigation.TabIndex="1" Grid.Column="2" Grid.ColumnSpan="3" cal:Message.Attach="[Event TextChanged] = [Action CanLogin]" />
But TextBox does not have a CornerRadius how can I achieve this so that I am able to change the CornerRadius of the Border in the view XAML
As mentioned in the comment you need proxy property that you can set against TextBox and bind in template. So create AttachedProprty of CornerRadius type
public static class AttachedProperties
{
public static readonly DependencyProperty CornerRadiusProperty = DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached("CornerRadius", typeof(CornerRadius), typeof(AttachedProperties), new UIPropertyMetadata());
public static void SetCornerRadius(DependencyObject d, CornerRadius source)
{
d.SetValue(CornerRadiusProperty, source);
}
public static CornerRadius GetCornerRadius(DependencyObject d)
{
return (CornerRadius)d.GetValue(CornerRadiusProperty);
}
}
change ControlTemplate and bind to that property of TemplatedParent
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}">
<Border CornerRadius="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}, Path=(local:AttachedProperties.CornerRadius)}"/>
</ControlTemplate>
addSetter to your Style with default value
<Setter Property="local:AttachedProperties.CornerRadius" Value="5"/>
and then you can change it manually against each TextBox
<TextBox local:AttachedProperties.CornerRadius="5,5,0,0" .../>

textbox border not setting correctly on focus - WPF

I have a custom textbox I created in Expression Blend for WPF and I am trying to get the focus states to work correctly. When i tab into the textbox, the Focused part of the style works (and the border changes); however, if I do not have focus in the textbox and I click the textbox, it is not applying the style. If i click around the edges of the textbox (in the border part), it will set correctly. For some reason my scrollviewer is not firing off the focus event correctly.
Below is my style:
<Style x:Key="TextBoxDark" TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}">
<Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="1" />
<Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="#FF171717" />
<Setter Property="Background" Value="#FF212121" />
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}">
<Grid x:Name="grid">
<VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<VisualStateGroup x:Name="CommonStates">
<VisualStateGroup.Transitions>
<VisualTransition GeneratedDuration="0:0:0.2"/>
</VisualStateGroup.Transitions>
<VisualState x:Name="Normal"/>
<VisualState x:Name="Disabled">
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Opacity)" Storyboard.TargetName="grid">
<EasingDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="0.395"/>
</DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
<VisualState x:Name="ReadOnly">
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Opacity)" Storyboard.TargetName="scrollViewer">
<EasingDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="0.5"/>
</DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
<VisualState x:Name="MouseOver">
<Storyboard>
<ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Border.BorderBrush).(SolidColorBrush.Color)" Storyboard.TargetName="border">
<EasingColorKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="#FF0B5A8F"/>
</ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
</VisualStateGroup>
<VisualStateGroup x:Name="FocusStates">
<VisualState x:Name="Unfocused"/>
<VisualState x:Name="Focused" />
</VisualStateGroup>
</VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<Border Name="border" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}">
<ScrollViewer x:Name="scrollViewer" Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}" Foreground="{TemplateBinding Foreground}"
ToolTipService.ToolTip="{TemplateBinding Text}" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Hidden" Content="{TemplateBinding Text}" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
</Border>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
<Style.Triggers>
<Trigger Property="IsFocused" Value="True">
<Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="#FF007ACC"/>
<Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="1"/>
</Trigger>
</Style.Triggers>
</Style>
Try this.may be this might be helpfull to you.thank you.
<Window.Resources>
<Style x:Key="TextBoxDark" TargetType="TextBox">
<Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="1" />
<Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="#FF171717" />
<Setter Property="Background" Value="#FF212121" />
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="TextBox">
<Border Name="Border" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}">
<ScrollViewer Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Hidden" ToolTipService.ToolTip="{TemplateBinding Text}" x:Name="PART_ContentHost" Foreground="{TemplateBinding Foreground}"/>
</Border>
<ControlTemplate.Triggers>
<Trigger Property="IsFocused" Value="True">
<Setter TargetName="Border" Property="BorderBrush" Value="#FF007ACC"/>
<Setter TargetName="Border" Property="BorderThickness" Value="1"/>
</Trigger>
<Trigger Property="IsKeyboardFocusWithin" Value="True">
<Setter TargetName="Border" Property="BorderBrush" Value="#FF007ACC"/>
<Setter TargetName="Border" Property="BorderThickness" Value="1"/>
</Trigger>
<Trigger Property="IsMouseOver" Value="True">
<Setter TargetName="Border" Property="BorderBrush" Value="#FF0B5A8F"/>
<Setter TargetName="Border" Property="BorderThickness" Value="1"/>
</Trigger>
<Trigger Property="IsReadOnly" Value="True">
<Setter TargetName="PART_ContentHost" Property="Opacity" Value="0.5"></Setter>
</Trigger>
<Trigger Property="IsEnabled" Value="False">
<Setter TargetName="Border" Property="BorderBrush" Value="#FF171717"/>
<Setter TargetName="Border" Property="BorderThickness" Value="1"/>
</Trigger>
</ControlTemplate.Triggers>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</Window.Resources>
<TextBox Style="{StaticResource TextBoxDark}" Foreground="Red" Height="35" Width="100"></TextBox>
Personally, I never use Blend or the designer window in Visual Studio, because they change the code in ways that I would not. I always write the XAML, so I know exactly what's going on. When I define a new ControlTemplate for a control, I always follow these simple steps and I've never had any problems.
First, find the default ControlTemplate from the TextBox Styles and Templates page on MSDN.
Next, add a Style for the TextBox that sets the Template property to a new ControlTemplate and copy and paste the whole default ControlTemplate in there.
You'll probably need to copy over some resources from the linked page too... basically for this step, get the TextBox control looking and behaving as normal.
Finally, tweak your ControlTemplate however you want, but always in small steps, so that you can keep checking that you haven't removed anything that might break some functionality.
That's it. You should now have a completely working custom TextBox now. Good luck.

WPF, Create brush animation in Style.Triggers of a button style

I am working now on a Button style, I've included a control template and style triggers. Now I want to make the background brush fade to a certain colour when mouse enter to button. But the colour animation won't work with a brush. and I'm stuck on that since yesterday. Here is what I've done so far in my button style:
<Converters:MathConverter x:Key="MathConverter" />
<Converters:ColorToBrushConverter x:Key="ColorToBrushConverter" />
<Style TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="FontSize"
Value="{Binding FontSizeButton}" />
<Setter Property="Margin"
Value="{Binding FontSizeBase, Converter={StaticResource MathConverter}, ConverterParameter=#VALUE/3}" />
<Setter Property="Padding"
Value="{Binding FontSizeButton, Converter={StaticResource MathConverter}, ConverterParameter=#VALUE/3}" />
<Setter Property="MinWidth"
Value="{Binding ActualHeight, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}}" />
<Setter Property="Width"
Value="NaN" />
<Setter Property="Background"
Value="{Binding BrushBackButton}" />
<Setter Property="BorderBrush"
Value="{Binding BrushBorder}" />
<Setter Property="BorderThickness"
Value="{Binding BorderThicknessBase}" />
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
<Border x:Name="MainBorder" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}"
BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}"
Background="{TemplateBinding Background}">
<ContentPresenter x:Name="Content"
VerticalAlignment="{TemplateBinding VerticalContentAlignment}"
HorizontalAlignment="{TemplateBinding HorizontalContentAlignment}"
TextElement.Foreground="{TemplateBinding Foreground}" />
</Border>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
<Style.Triggers>
<!--
<Trigger Property="IsMouseOver"
Value="True">
<Setter Property="Background"
Value="{Binding BrushBackButtonOver}" />
</Trigger>
-->
<EventTrigger RoutedEvent="MouseEnter">
<BeginStoryboard>
<Storyboard TargetProperty="Background">
<ColorAnimation To="Blue" Duration="10"/>
</Storyboard>
</BeginStoryboard>
</EventTrigger>
</Style.Triggers>
</Style>
You should use the VisualStateManager for this kind of problem.
It may lead you to something like that :
<Style TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
<Border x:Name ="Border" Background="LightBlue">
<VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<VisualStateGroup x:Name="CommonStates">
<VisualStateGroup.Transitions>
<VisualTransition GeneratedDuration="0:0:0.2"/>
</VisualStateGroup.Transitions>
<VisualState x:Name="Normal"/>
<VisualState x:Name="Pressed">
<Storyboard>
<ColorAnimation
Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color)"
To="Red"/>
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
<VisualState x:Name="MouseOver">
<Storyboard>
<ColorAnimation
Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color)"
To="Blue"/>
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
</VisualStateGroup>
</VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<ContentPresenter Content="{TemplateBinding Content}"/>
</Border>
[...]
[Edit]
Concerning your specific problem, you should put your trigger in the ControlTemplate's Triggers.
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
[...]
<ControlTemplate.Triggers>
<EventTrigger RoutedEvent="MouseEnter">
<BeginStoryboard>
<Storyboard TargetName="Border" TargetProperty="(Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color)">
<ColorAnimation To="Blue" Duration="0:0:0.2"/>
</Storyboard>
</BeginStoryboard>
</EventTrigger>
</ControlTemplate.Triggers>

Windows Phone Toolkit: add ContextMenu to Button style template

I have a piece of XAML code that defines a template for some Buttons inside a StackPanel:
<StackPanel x:Name="ThumbnailsStack">
<StackPanel.Resources>
<Style TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="Height" Value="120" />
<Setter Property="Margin" Value="3" />
<Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="0" />
</Style>
</StackPanel.Resources>
</StackPanel>
The code works and all the buttons inside the stack assume the defined style.
Now I want to attach a ContextMenu (from the Toolkit library) to each one of them. I tried the following way:
In App.xaml
<Application.Resources>
<toolkit:ContextMenu x:Key="ThumbBtnMenu">
<toolkit:MenuItem Header="delete"></toolkit:MenuItem>
</toolkit:ContextMenu>
</Application.Resources>
In the previous code I added a new tag:
<StackPanel x:Name="ThumbnailsStack">
<StackPanel.Resources>
<Style TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="Height" Value="120" />
<Setter Property="Margin" Value="3" />
<Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="0" />
<Setter Property="toolkit:ContextMenuService.ContextMenu" Value="{StaticResource ThumbBtnMenu}" />
</Style>
</StackPanel.Resources>
</StackPanel>
Now, when the Page loads, it raises a System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException: Failed to assign to property 'System.Windows.Setter.Value'
The problem is when you define the Context menu in the resource, there will be only one instance of the ContextMenu (and this same instance will get added to all button) so there will be some issue when it's added to the visual tree since an item can only have one parent.
I think the only way for you to define the Context menu at the Style level is actually to define it inside the complete stlye of the button, like this for example:
<Style TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="Transparent"/>
<Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"/>
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"/>
<Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="{StaticResource PhoneBorderThickness}"/>
<Setter Property="FontFamily" Value="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilySemiBold}"/>
<Setter Property="FontSize" Value="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeMedium}"/>
<Setter Property="Padding" Value="10,5,10,6"/>
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="Button">
<Grid Background="Transparent">
<toolkit:ContextMenuService.ContextMenu>
<toolkit:ContextMenu>
<toolkit:MenuItem Header="delete"></toolkit:MenuItem>
</toolkit:ContextMenu>
</toolkit:ContextMenuService.ContextMenu>
<VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<VisualStateGroup x:Name="CommonStates">
<VisualState x:Name="Normal"/>
<VisualState x:Name="MouseOver"/>
<VisualState x:Name="Pressed">
<Storyboard>
<ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="Foreground" Storyboard.TargetName="ContentContainer">
<DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="{StaticResource PhoneButtonBasePressedForegroundBrush}"/>
</ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
<ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="Background" Storyboard.TargetName="ButtonBackground">
<DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}"/>
</ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
<VisualState x:Name="Disabled">
<Storyboard>
<ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="Foreground" Storyboard.TargetName="ContentContainer">
<DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="{StaticResource PhoneDisabledBrush}"/>
</ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
<ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="BorderBrush" Storyboard.TargetName="ButtonBackground">
<DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="{StaticResource PhoneDisabledBrush}"/>
</ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
<ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="Background" Storyboard.TargetName="ButtonBackground">
<DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="Transparent"/>
</ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
</VisualStateGroup>
</VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<Border x:Name="ButtonBackground" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" CornerRadius="0" Margin="{StaticResource PhoneTouchTargetOverhang}">
<ContentControl x:Name="ContentContainer" ContentTemplate="{TemplateBinding ContentTemplate}" Content="{TemplateBinding Content}" Foreground="{TemplateBinding Foreground}" HorizontalContentAlignment="{TemplateBinding HorizontalContentAlignment}" Padding="{TemplateBinding Padding}" VerticalContentAlignment="{TemplateBinding VerticalContentAlignment}"/>
</Border>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>

dynamic bind to a resource but in a state animation

I have defined a visual state in which a button has a glow effect.
But I want to have a variable BlurRadius in that state.
My approach was adding a resource and change that resource in code behind.
But changes doesn't affect the visual controls.
here is xaml code :
<Window
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:Microsoft_Windows_Themes="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Windows.Themes;assembly=PresentationFramework.Aero" xmlns:System="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib" xmlns:i="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/2010/interactivity" xmlns:ei="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/2010/interactions" x:Class="blend1.question"
Title="question" Height="300" Width="300">
<Window.Resources>
<Style x:Key="ButtonFocusVisual">
<Setter Property="Control.Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate>
<Rectangle Margin="2" SnapsToDevicePixels="true" Stroke="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemColors.ControlTextBrushKey}}" StrokeThickness="1" StrokeDashArray="1 2"/>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
<LinearGradientBrush x:Key="ButtonNormalBackground" EndPoint="0,1" StartPoint="0,0">
<GradientStop Color="#F3F3F3" Offset="0"/>
<GradientStop Color="#EBEBEB" Offset="0.5"/>
<GradientStop Color="#DDDDDD" Offset="0.5"/>
<GradientStop Color="#CDCDCD" Offset="1"/>
</LinearGradientBrush>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="ButtonNormalBorder" Color="#FF707070"/>
<System:Double x:Key="d1">10</System:Double>
<Style x:Key="ButtonStyle1" TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
<Setter Property="FocusVisualStyle" Value="{StaticResource ButtonFocusVisual}"/>
<Setter Property="Background" Value="{StaticResource ButtonNormalBackground}"/>
<Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="{StaticResource ButtonNormalBorder}"/>
<Setter Property="BorderThickness" Value="1"/>
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemColors.ControlTextBrushKey}}"/>
<Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Center"/>
<Setter Property="VerticalContentAlignment" Value="Center"/>
<Setter Property="Padding" Value="1"/>
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
<Microsoft_Windows_Themes:ButtonChrome x:Name="Chrome" BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}" Background="{TemplateBinding Background}" RenderMouseOver="{TemplateBinding IsMouseOver}" RenderPressed="{TemplateBinding IsPressed}" RenderDefaulted="{TemplateBinding IsDefaulted}" SnapsToDevicePixels="true">
<Microsoft_Windows_Themes:ButtonChrome.Effect>
<DropShadowEffect BlurRadius="0" ShadowDepth="0"/>
</Microsoft_Windows_Themes:ButtonChrome.Effect>
<VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<VisualStateGroup x:Name="CommonStates">
<VisualState x:Name="Normal"/>
<VisualState x:Name="MouseOver"/>
<VisualState x:Name="Pressed"/>
<VisualState x:Name="Disabled"/>
</VisualStateGroup>
<VisualStateGroup x:Name="FocusStates">
<VisualState x:Name="Unfocused"/>
<VisualState x:Name="Focused"/>
</VisualStateGroup>
<VisualStateGroup x:Name="ValidationStates">
<VisualState x:Name="Valid"/>
<VisualState x:Name="InvalidFocused"/>
<VisualState x:Name="InvalidUnfocused"/>
</VisualStateGroup>
<VisualStateGroup x:Name="mySG">
<VisualState x:Name="sMouseOver">
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Effect).(DropShadowEffect.BlurRadius)" Storyboard.TargetName="Chrome">
<EasingDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="{StaticResource d1}"/>
</DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
<DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Effect).(DropShadowEffect.ShadowDepth)" Storyboard.TargetName="Chrome">
<EasingDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="0"/>
</DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
<ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Effect).(DropShadowEffect.Color)" Storyboard.TargetName="Chrome">
<EasingColorKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="Red"/>
</ColorAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
<VisualState x:Name="sMouseOut">
<Storyboard>
<DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Effect).(DropShadowEffect.BlurRadius)" Storyboard.TargetName="Chrome">
<EasingDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="0"/>
</DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
<DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Effect).(DropShadowEffect.ShadowDepth)" Storyboard.TargetName="Chrome">
<EasingDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0" Value="0"/>
</DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
</Storyboard>
</VisualState>
</VisualStateGroup>
</VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<ContentPresenter HorizontalAlignment="{TemplateBinding HorizontalContentAlignment}" Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}" RecognizesAccessKey="True" SnapsToDevicePixels="{TemplateBinding SnapsToDevicePixels}" VerticalAlignment="{TemplateBinding VerticalContentAlignment}"/>
</Microsoft_Windows_Themes:ButtonChrome>
<ControlTemplate.Triggers>
<Trigger Property="IsKeyboardFocused" Value="true">
<Setter Property="RenderDefaulted" TargetName="Chrome" Value="true"/>
</Trigger>
<Trigger Property="ToggleButton.IsChecked" Value="true">
<Setter Property="RenderPressed" TargetName="Chrome" Value="true"/>
</Trigger>
<Trigger Property="IsEnabled" Value="false">
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="#ADADAD"/>
</Trigger>
</ControlTemplate.Triggers>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</Window.Resources>
<Grid Margin="1">
<Button x:Name="button" Content="Button" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="16.4,8,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="75" Style="{DynamicResource ButtonStyle1}" >
<Button.Effect>
<DropShadowEffect BlurRadius="0" ShadowDepth="0" Color="Red"/>
</Button.Effect>
<i:Interaction.Triggers>
<i:EventTrigger EventName="MouseEnter">
<ei:GoToStateAction TargetObject="{Binding ElementName=button}" StateName="sMouseOver"/>
</i:EventTrigger>
<i:EventTrigger EventName="MouseLeave">
<ei:GoToStateAction TargetObject="{Binding ElementName=button}" StateName="sMouseOut"/>
</i:EventTrigger>
</i:Interaction.Triggers>
</Button>
<Button Content="increase" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,8,30.8,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="75" Click="Button_Click"/>
</Grid>
</Window>
and here is the code behind :
/// <summary>
/// Interaction logic for question.xaml
/// </summary>
public partial class question : Window
{
public question()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Button_Click(object sender, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs e)
{
// TODO: Add event handler implementation here.
double d= (double)Resources["d1"];
Resources["d1"]=d+10;
MessageBox.Show(Resources["d1"].ToString());
}
}
How should I dynamic bind to a resource in a state ? and what about the condition in which I use a DependencyProperty in my window class for varying BlurRadius ? and If there is another logical approach let me know.
Thanks in advance.
It was impossible. :)
Thanks for all who contributed to this answer.

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