Making a visible/invisible panel that resizes the main window - wpf

I wish to achieve an effect like common media players with an eq or tracklist panel that can be shown or less with a click.
The main window should so automatically resize with the displayed content.
I wonder if I must care to do manually specifing the size or there's a solution more clear.
<Window x:Class="WpfApplicationAnimation.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="MainWindow" Height="Auto" Width="Auto" SizeToContent="WidthAndHeight">
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Label Margin="5" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0">Value 1:</Label>
<Label Margin="5" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="1">Value 2:</Label>
<Label Margin="5" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="2">Value 3:</Label>
<Button Margin="5" Click="Button_Click_1" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="3" Visibility="Hidden">Hello</Button>
<TextBox Name="txt1" Margin="5" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" MinWidth="100" />
<TextBox Margin="5" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" MinWidth="100" />
<TextBox Margin="5" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2" MinWidth="100" />
</Grid>
I tried with setting SizeToContent="WidthAndHeight" but even if visible the content of the button take the required space.

You can try to use an Expander although will not be the same effect. The problem will be Window Transparency (so you can get a rid out of that, as Winamp does; but then you get into a Memory Leak). But, expander is the only control I know that enables to to that automatically. Sure, you can always arrange and resize manually, but that's what you're trying to avoid.

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window resize when textbox resize

Here is the code for Textbox available in my window(form1.xaml),My requirement is when i am resizing my window i want to resize the textbox width also, How can i able to achieve this....
<TextBox Width="500" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="5,0,0,5" TextWrapping="Wrap" AcceptsReturn="True" Text="{Binding Result,UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged,ValidatesOnDataErrors=True}" IsEnabled="{Binding OpenMode,Converter={StaticResource EnableModeConverter}}" Height="70" />
In WPF you typically place TextBox control within layout Grid control and set the ColumnDefinition Width property of that Grid cell to some relative value "*", so it will resize with the Window. Do NOT use a fixed Width="500" as per your sample: also, remove that "HorizontalAlignment="Left" (the default value is HorizontalAlignment="Stretch", so you can just omit it to simplify your XAML). See the following sample code snippet:
<Grid Name="Grid1">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="2*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="4*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<TextBox Name="TextBox1" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Height="70" Margin="5,0,0,5" TextWrapping="Wrap" AcceptsReturn="True" (...Rest of Your code) />
</Grid>
Note: The same technique could be applied to a vertical "Height" property in case you need to make it also resizable.
Hope this will help. Best regards,
Set HorizontalAlignment to Stretch, and don't set the Width
<Grid>
<TextBox HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
Margin="5,0,0,5"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
AcceptsReturn="True"
Height="70" />
</Grid>
Layout in WPF is heavily depend on the parent container. For example, create a form with labels and input fields, consider using a Grid panel. Controls in WPF by default resize according to the layout behavior of their parent. Here is an example of a window with two labeled text boxes and two buttons that resize along with the window.
<Window>
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Label Content="Contact Name" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" />
<TextBox Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" />
<Label Content="Contact Location" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" />
<TextBox Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" />
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Right"
VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="1">
<Button Content="OK" Width="75" Height="24" Margin="3" />
<Button Content="Cancel" Width="75" Height="24" Margin="3" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</Window>

Odd WPF Grid Behavior Affected by TextBox Text

I can't figure out why the contents of my TextBox is affecting my grid column widths. I have setup a grid with 3 columns with widths defined as 50, *, 50, as shown below
Now, when in use, the center column will grow/shrink as the text in the TextBox changes, see the 2 examples below. The actual TextBox is not changing size, so I can't understand why in the world the grid is changing. The Grid is inside of a Border inside a UserControl. The UserControl is used as a DataTemplate in a ListBox.
Edit: I've discovered that this issue is related to the UserControl being in a ListBox, see example image below (UserControl in ListBox (circled in red) vs. UserControl Placed on Form (circed in blue). The grid behaves as expected when the UserControl is placed directly on the form. Code for the form is given below.
UserControl XAML:
<Grid ShowGridLines="True">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="50"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="50"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="Name:" Margin="2" />
<TextBox Grid.Column="1" Margin="2" Text="{Binding Name, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" />
<TextBlock Text="Shift:" Grid.Row="1" Margin="2" />
<TextBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" Margin="2" Text="{Binding TimeShift, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, FallbackValue=0}" HorizontalContentAlignment="Right" />
<TextBlock Text="s" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="2" Margin="2" />
</Grid>
Window/Form XAML:
<Window x:Class="CrashSimOffice.FileImport"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:CrashSimOffice"
Title="File Import" Height="350" Width="450" Background="White" Icon="/CrashSimOffice;component/Images/16/page-white-save.png">
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="75"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="75"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="75"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Button Content="Add" Margin="2" Command="{Binding AddFileCommand}" />
<Button Content="Remove" Grid.Column="1" Margin="2" Command="{Binding RemoveFileCommand}" />
<ListBox HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch" Grid.ColumnSpan="4" Margin="2" Grid.Row="1" ItemsSource="{Binding Files}" SelectedItem="{Binding CurrentFile}" ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll="False" Background="WhiteSmoke">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type local:FileViewModel}">
<local:FileView DataContext="{Binding}" />
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
<Button Content="Done" Grid.Column="3" Margin="2" Grid.Row="2" Click="Button_Click" />
<local:FileView Grid.Row="3" Grid.ColumnSpan="4" />
</Grid>
OK, I figured it out, Bruno V you got me thinking it must have something to do with the ListBox. I needed to add this to my ListBox:
ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled"
Not sure why that works, but it does.

Border wrapping wrong element in WPF

I'm trying to add a border to some controls in XAML - the problem is, whenever I apply wrapping a certain element it wraps the whole window, probably on the first grid element?
This also happens when I try to use it around the WebBrowser. Any suggestions?
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication2.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="RAT-t00l" Height="850" Width="700">
<Grid x:Name="BigGrid" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Width="682">
<TextBox Name="txt_Log" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="657" Margin="4,10,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="417" IsReadOnly="True"/>
<Button Name="btn" Click="btn_Connect_Click" Background="LightGreen" Content="Connect" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="266,680,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="75"/>
<Button Name="btn_disc" Click="btn_Disconnect_Click" Background="Pink" Content="Disconnect" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="346,680,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="75"/>
<Button Name="btn_fetch" Click="btn_Fetch_Click" Content="Fetch data" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="266,707,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="155" Height="24"/>
<Button Name="btn_eraseLog" Click="btn_EraseLog_Click" Content="Erase log from target" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="266,736,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="155" Height="25"/>
<WebBrowser
Name="map"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
Height="347"
Margin="426,10,0,0"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
Width="246"
LoadCompleted="wb_LoadCompleted"
/>
Here's the border. Meaning to wrap only the grid inside.
<Border Name="mask" CornerRadius="20" Height="auto" Width="auto" BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="Black">
<Grid x:Name ="GeneralGrid" Margin="426,362,10,291" ShowGridLines="True" Background="LightGray">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="61*" ></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition Width="185*"></ColumnDefinition>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition></RowDefinition>
<RowDefinition></RowDefinition>
<RowDefinition></RowDefinition>
<RowDefinition></RowDefinition>
<RowDefinition></RowDefinition>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<TextBlock Name="IP">IP</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Name="ISP" Grid.Row="1">ISP</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Name="Location" Grid.Row="2">Location</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Name="Longitude" Grid.Row="3">Longitude</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Name="Latitude" Grid.Row="4">Latitude</TextBlock>
</Grid>
</Border>
</Grid>
</Window>
I would recommend that you do NOT continue to use the Visual Studio Designer as you have been. It does a very poor job of creating the XAML that we actually want. For example, your UI elements have all got an exact Margin set on them (thanks to the VS Designer I imagine) and this can make things awkward for you later on.
WPF was really designed to enable developer to use resizable controls so that the UI can resize itself when the user resizes the application. Different Panels provide different sizing abilities to their child controls and you can find out more about that from the Panels Overview page on MSDN. However, back to your question regarding the Grid class.
Because you have used the Visual Studio Designer, your controls have not ended up in the Grid cells that you wanted, instead just being placed 'on top of', or 'in front of' them. In order to place a control into a particular Grid cell, you need to set the Grid.Row and/or Grid.Column Attached Properties. See this example taken from the last linked page from MSDN:
<Grid VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Left" ShowGridLines="True" Width="250" Height="100">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<TextBlock FontSize="20" FontWeight="Bold" Grid.ColumnSpan="3" Grid.Row="0">2005 Products Shipped</TextBlock>
<TextBlock FontSize="12" FontWeight="Bold" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0">Quarter 1</TextBlock>
<TextBlock FontSize="12" FontWeight="Bold" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1">Quarter 2</TextBlock>
<TextBlock FontSize="12" FontWeight="Bold" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="2">Quarter 3</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0">50000</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="1">100000</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="2">150000</TextBlock>
<TextBlock FontSize="16" FontWeight="Bold" Grid.ColumnSpan="3" Grid.Row="3">Total Units: 300000</TextBlock>
</Grid>
You appear to have placed all your BigGrid elements into a single cell of that layout grid, and the only thing stopping them from appearing on top of each other is the fact you've defined margins. You have not defined a margin for your border, but then defined margins for its children, which means they'll be offset.
Really, for best layout, you want to avoid margins as much as possible and divide your BigGrid into rows and columns. Then place your UI into those cells. If your border is within its own cell you will not have it appear to wrap everything.

Use all browser space in Silverlight application

I am currently writing a Silverlight application that will view documents. The main panel is a WrapPanel with controls on the left and bottom of the page. Currently, the WrapPanel width is getting set to whatever it needs to be able to display all document pages on one line and I would like to change it so that it will fill up the rest of the browser window, with no horizontal scroll bar
Here is my current xaml, where <doc:DocumentViewer x:Name="Viewer".. is the wrap panel in question.
<UserControl x:Class="SilverlightXPSViewer.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"
xmlns:doc="http://schemas.firstfloorsoftware.com/documenttoolkit"
mc:Ignorable="d">
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White" >
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="40" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="150" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="140" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<doc:ThumbnailListBox x:Name="Thumbnails" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" DocumentDataSource="{Binding ElementName=DataSource}" PageIndex="{Binding PageIndex, Mode=TwoWay, ElementName=PageNavigator}"/>
<doc:DocumentViewer x:Name="Viewer" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="3" DocumentDataSource="{Binding ElementName=DataSource}" Width="{Binding ElementName=MainWidth}"/>
<doc:DocumentDataSource x:Name="DataSource" Grid.Row="0" LoadError="DataSource_LoadError" />
<StackPanel Grid.Column="3" Grid.Row="1" Orientation="Horizontal">
<doc:PageNavigator x:Name="PageNavigator" Margin="0"
PageCount="{Binding PageCount, ElementName=Viewer}"
PageIndex="{Binding PageIndex, ElementName=Viewer, Mode=TwoWay}"/>
<doc:PageNavigator />
</StackPanel>
<doc:ViewModePicker Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" x:Name="Collection"/>
<Button Width="200" Name="btnZoomIn" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" Cursor="Hand" Click="btnZoomIn_Click">Zoom In</Button>
<Button Width="200" Name="btnZoomOut" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="2" Cursor="Hand" Click="btnZoomOut_Click">Zoom Out</Button>
</Grid>
</UserControl>
Use the System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage object to get the available screen size from the HTML DOM (thus letting the browser to tell you how much space there is) and set the control size from that.
here's an example:
http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/06/browserscreeninformation/

Make the last TextBox in a DataTemplate Stretch

I have an ItemsControl:
<Border Grid.Row="1" Margin="20" BorderBrush="AliceBlue" BorderThickness="1" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<ItemsControl Margin="10" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" ItemsSource="{Binding SelectedEventHistoryEntryCollection}" ItemTemplateSelector="{StaticResource computerEventHistoryDataTemplateSelector}"/>
</Border>
With some datatemplates. I'm testing the first template:
<DataTemplate x:Key="DetailsDataTemplate">
<Grid>
<Label Width="150" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Content="{x:Static resx:Resources.Label_ServiceDept}"/>
<TextBox Margin="110,0,0,0" Width="200" IsReadOnly="True" Text="{Binding ServiceDepartment}" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Left"/>
<Label Width="150" Margin="0,40,0,0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Content="{x:Static resx:Resources.Label_SLA}"/>
<TextBox Margin="110,40,0,0" Width="200" IsReadOnly="True" Text="{Binding SLA}" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Left"/>
<Label Width="150" Margin="0,80,0,0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Content="{x:Static resx:Resources.Label_Details}"/>
<TextBox Margin="110,80,10,10" IsReadOnly="True" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="{Binding Details}"/>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
I would like the last Textbox in the datatemplate to use up the remaining space, but nothing I tried works. How can I get this uncooperateive TextBox to stretch?
Edit: Removed the Height Property on the Textbox.
Change the grid to a DockPanel with LastChildFill="true".
You can then get rid of all of the Margins and let WPF do the layout automatically.
Use a <DockPanel> instead of a <Grid>.
The last item in the DockPanel uses remaining space.
Generally, I use <Grid.RowDefinitions> and <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> in conjunction with star sizing * instead of margins for this type of layout.
UPDATE 1: (Removed for clarity)
UPDATE 2: When I wind up in situations like this where I can’t figure out where to apply a binding or a template I try to back up and look at the problem differently. I almost always take it back to the MVVM pattern. In this case, your Model is your EventHistory object. Your ViewModel has an ObservableCollection<EventHistory>. And your View is simply binding to that collection. So, to get something like this:
You would use something like this for your View:
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="1*" />
<RowDefinition Height="8" />
<RowDefinition Height="1.5*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<DataGrid Grid.Row="0" AutoGenerateColumns="True"
ItemsSource="{Binding}" IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True"
HorizontalGridLinesBrush="DarkGray" VerticalGridLinesBrush="DarkGray" />
<GridSplitter Grid.Row="1"
Background="Transparent"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" />
<Border Grid.Row="2" BorderBrush="DarkGray" BorderThickness="1" CornerRadius="3" Padding="8">
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Label Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Content="Status" />
<TextBox Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" Margin="0,0,0,8" Text="{Binding Path=Status}" />
<Label Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Content="Detailed Description" />
<TextBox Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" Text="{Binding Path=Description}" />
</Grid>
</Border>
</Grid>
And that is just fine -- because that is what you are trying to achieve. The bindings on the 2 labels and textboxes at the bottom of the screen don’t have to be part of any data template. They are part of the view (everything inside the red border in the screenshot). All of the resizing works and everything is good. If you really want to move things into a DataTemplate, it is probably possible, but this seemed more natural at this point.
NOTE: After creating the View (area inside the red border) I hosted it in the main window leaving an area to the right as per your screenshot. I also took a few liberties with a grid splitter, star resizing and margins so things would take up all of the available space while maintaining the pictured proportions.
Hopefully that helps!
I was a little slow on the uptake with my first answer. After realizing what you were after I don't think that approach was correct. Also, I don't think you can easily achieve what you're after using DataTemplates. However, I do think you have a few options:
Check into Prism since is is good at doing things like building composite applications. However, it seems like WAY overkill for this problem. So, a more direct approach may be...
Build out custom controls for each separate detail view you have and then write some custom logic to load each view as needed. You would set it up like this...
You main grid and your details view host (i.e. the ContentControl) would be set up something like this:
<Grid Background="Transparent">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="1*" />
<RowDefinition Height="8" />
<RowDefinition Height="1.5*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<DataGrid Grid.Row="0" />
<GridSplitter Grid.Row="1" Background="Transparent"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" />
<Border Grid.Row="2" BorderBrush="DarkGray" BorderThickness="1" CornerRadius="3" Padding="8">
<ContentControl Grid.Row="2" x:Name="myContent" />
</Border>
</Grid>
And each of your custom controls for your individual detail views would be set up something like this:
<UserControl x:Class="WpfApplication1.CustomUserControl"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008">
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Label Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Content="Status" />
<Label Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Content="Description" />
<TextBox Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1" Text="{Binding Status}" />
<TextBox Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="{Binding Description}" />
</Grid>
</UserControl>
At run time a row is selected in your DataGrid, you would have to load the correct user control with some code like this:
myContent.Content = new CustomUserControl();
Each of your custom controls would have to use star sizing, etc. to get the layouts to look right - which is what you were after with your question. Obviously there is still a lot of wireup that would need to be done.
That should give you what you are after. Sorry for the run-around on the first answer!

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