I have a simple custom window (XAML below).
When first loaded, it will add a user control to the grdContainer.Children collection.
User selection/action will cause other user controls to added/removed to the children collection. (one loaded at a time). What I am attempting to do is provide a simple animation as the new control is loaded, something like a 45degree swipe from top left to bottom right.
If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.
<Window
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
x:Class="WinClientFolder"
x:Name="WinClientFolder"
Title="MainWindow"
Width="450" Height="300" AllowsTransparency="True" WindowStyle="None" ResizeMode="CanResizeWithGrip">
<Window.Background>
<SolidColorBrush />
</Window.Background>
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
<Border BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="2,2,2,0" Margin="18,13,0,0" CornerRadius="10,10,0,0" Background="#FFCCC523" Height="32" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="179" Name="FolderTab">
<Grid Height="25" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Name="grdFolderTop" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="175">
<TextBlock x:Name="txtClientName" Height="34" TextWrapping="NoWrap" Width="Auto" FontSize="18" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="5,0,0,0"><Run Text="Doe, John Family " /><LineBreak /><Run /></TextBlock>
</Grid>
</Border>
<Border BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="2,1,6,2" Margin="0,45,0,0" Background="#FFCCC523" CornerRadius="10,10,0,0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Name="FolderBody">
<Grid Height="Auto" Name="grdContainer" Width="Auto" />
</Border>
</Grid>
I asked a somewhat similar question in this post. I can highly recommend this Transitionals framework. It's simple to use and looks great.
Related
I want to implement this kind of Window:
So currently i have this Style :
<Window x:Class="CGTransparent.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="AboutDlg"
Opacity="0.75"
ResizeMode="NoResize"
SizeToContent="WidthAndHeight"
WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen"
WindowStyle="None"
AllowsTransparency="True" Height="300"
Width="500"
ShowInTaskbar="False"
Background="#00000000">
<Window.Resources>
<LinearGradientBrush x:Key="GradientBrush" StartPoint="0,0" EndPoint="1,1">
<GradientStop Color="Black" Offset="0.1" />
<GradientStop Color="#202020" Offset="0.25" />
<GradientStop Color="#303030" Offset="0.50" />
<GradientStop Color="#404040" Offset="0.75" />
<GradientStop Color="#505050" Offset="1.0" />
</LinearGradientBrush>
</Window.Resources>
<Border CornerRadius="15" DockPanel.Dock="Top" Background="{DynamicResource GradientBrush}" Margin="0" Padding="0" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="0">
<Grid Margin="0" >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="500" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="300" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
</Grid>
</Border>
</Window>
Result (ignore the tiger...):
Any idea how to achieve this example Style ?
Update:
<Window x:Class="app.Forms.Window1"
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:local="clr-namespace:PacketPlayer.Forms"
mc:Ignorable="d"
WindowStartupLocation="CenterOwner"
AllowsTransparency="True" WindowStyle="None"
Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300">
<Border BorderBrush="Transparent" BorderThickness="1" CornerRadius="20">
<Grid>
<Image Source="C:\Users\racr\Desktop\download.jpg" Stretch="Fill" Margin="-60">
<Image.Effect>
<BlurEffect KernelType="Gaussian" Radius="60" />
</Image.Effect>
</Image>
<Border CornerRadius="60" Margin="30" Background="#7F000000">
<TextBlock Foreground="White"
FontSize="20" FontWeight="Light" TextAlignment="Center"
HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<Run Text="Hello World" FontSize="48"/>
<LineBreak/>
<Run Text="walterlv.github.io"/>
</TextBlock>
</Border>
</Grid>
</Border>
</Window>
Result:
enter image description here
You cannot simulate your original image with only GradientBrush, you should blur an image with a large amount of blur radius.
Options to simulate it
It's sad to tell you that you cannot implement the iOS blur style exactly as it shows for you.
But, we have three other methods to simulate this kind of style (on Windows 10) and each has its advantages and disadvantages.
Call the Windows internal API SetWindowCompositionAttribute. You can get a lightly blurred transparent Window but this transparency is much less than the iOS one.
Add a BlurEffect to the window background image. You can get a more similar visual effect like the iOS one with very poor performance. But in this way, the background image is fixed and cannot be updated when the window moves.
Use UWP instead of WPF and use the AcrylicBrush. You can get a high-performance blur transparent window. But you should try the UWP Application development.
How to implement them
SetWindowCompositionAttribute API
Calling SetWindowCompositionAttribute API is not very easy, so I've written a wrapper class for easier usage. You can use my class by writing only a simple line in the XAML file or in the cs file.
<Window x:Class="CGTransparent.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:interop="clr-namespace:Walterlv.Demo.Interop"
mc:Ignorable="d" Title="AboutDlg" Height="350" Width="525"
interop:WindowBlur.IsEnabled="True"
Background="Transparent">
</Window>
Or you can use it in the cs file like this:
public class Window1 : Window
{
public Window1()
{
InitializeComponent();
WindowBlur.SetIsEnabled(this, true);
}
}
Just add my wrapper class into your project. It's a very long class so I pasted into GitHub: https://gist.github.com/walterlv/752669f389978440d344941a5fcd5b00.
I also write a post for its usage, but it's not in English: https://walterlv.github.io/post/win10/2017/10/02/wpf-transparent-blur-in-windows-10.html
WPF BlurEffect
Just set the Effect property of a WPF UIElement.
<Window x:Class="MejirdrituTeWarqoudear.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
AllowsTransparency="True" WindowStyle="None"
Width="540" Height="360">
<Grid>
<Image Source="YourImageFile.jpg" Stretch="Fill" Margin="-60">
<Image.Effect>
<BlurEffect KernelType="Gaussian" Radius="60" />
</Image.Effect>
</Image>
<Border CornerRadius="60" Margin="30" Background="#7F000000">
<TextBlock Foreground="White"
FontSize="20" FontWeight="Light" TextAlignment="Center"
HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<Run Text="Hello World" FontSize="48"/>
<LineBreak/>
<Run Text="walterlv.github.io"/>
</TextBlock>
</Border>
</Grid>
</Window>
Notice that it has a very poor performance.
UWP AcyclicBrush
You can read Microsoft's documents Acrylic material - UWP app developer | Microsoft Docs for more details about how to write an AcylicBrush.
Update
You can add a RectangleGeometry to clip your UIElement into a rounded rectangle.
<Window x:Class="MejirdrituTeWarqoudear.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Width="540" Height="360">
<Grid>
<Grid.Clip>
<RectangleGeometry RadiusX="60" RadiusY="60" Rect="30 30 480 300" />
</Grid.Clip>
<Image Source="High+Sierra.jpg" Stretch="Fill" Margin="-60">
<Image.Effect>
<BlurEffect KernelType="Gaussian" Radius="60" />
</Image.Effect>
</Image>
<Border Background="#7F000000">
<TextBlock Foreground="White"
FontSize="20" FontWeight="Light" TextAlignment="Center"
HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<Run Text="Hello World" FontSize="48"/>
<LineBreak/>
<Run Text="walterlv.github.io"/>
</TextBlock>
</Border>
</Grid>
</Window>
Here is my code:
<Window x:Class="WPFStackOverFlow.SkewWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
AllowsTransparency="True" WindowStyle="None" Background="Transparent"
Title="MainWindow" Height="600" Width="687">
<Border BorderBrush="Green" BorderThickness="2" Background="White" Width="360" Height="360">
<Border.RenderTransform>
<SkewTransform AngleX="-23" AngleY="10"></SkewTransform>
</Border.RenderTransform>
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="23" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Button Grid.Row="0" Content="X" Width="23" Name="button1" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Click="button1_Click" Height="23" VerticalAlignment="Bottom"/>
<Grid Grid.Row="1">
<Button Height="100" Width="200"></Button>
<TextBlock Text="Some very very long Text" HorizontalAlignment="Center"/>
</Grid>
</Grid>
</Border>
When I move the mouse cursor over the button sometimes it get focus and sometimes it doesn't. How can I make the button inside this custom window to be like a button in a regular window?
I don't think you can apply transformations to windows.
You can apply them to the controls inside windows.
If you need to simulate transformations to windows you can try something similar to what is described in the answer to this question.
I want to make Window with Metro style.
I found the 3 following libraries:
http://elysium.asvishnyakov.com/en/
https://github.com/MahApps/MahApps.Metro
http://mui.codeplex.com/
All are for Net Framework 4+.
Is there anything for 3.5?
I also tried to make it on my own (Didnt finish - still need to design it and add Resize [which I dont know how]) but I dont really like how it's made...:
<Window
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:xctk="http://schemas.xceed.com/wpf/xaml/toolkit" x:Class="Windows_Hider.MainWindow"
Title="Windows Hider" Height="350" Width="525" WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen"
AllowsTransparency="True"
ResizeMode="CanResize" WindowStyle="None" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1" Icon="windowshider.ico">
<Grid>
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<Image Width="24" Height="24" Source="{Binding Icon, RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type Window}}}"/>
<Label VerticalAlignment="Center" FontSize="14" Content="{Binding Title, RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type Window}}}"/>
</StackPanel>
<Grid MouseDown="Grid_MouseDown" Background="Transparent"/>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Top" Grid.Row="0">
<Button ToolTip="minimize" Background="White">
<Grid Width="30" Height="25">
<TextBlock Text="0" FontFamily="Marlett" FontSize="14" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Padding="3.5,0,0,3" />
</Grid>
</Button>
<Grid Margin="1,0,1,0">
<Button x:Name="Restore" ToolTip="restore" Visibility="Collapsed">
<Grid Width="30" Height="25" UseLayoutRounding="True">
<TextBlock Text="2" FontFamily="Marlett" FontSize="14" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Padding="2,0,0,1" />
</Grid>
</Button>
<Button x:Name="Maximize" ToolTip="maximize">
<Grid Width="31" Height="25">
<TextBlock Text="1" FontFamily="Marlett" FontSize="14" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Padding="2,0,0,1" />
</Grid>
</Button>
</Grid>
<Button x:Name="Close" ToolTip="close">
<Grid Width="30" Height="25">
<TextBlock Text="r" FontFamily="Marlett" FontSize="14" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Padding="0,0,0,1" />
</Grid>
</Button>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</Grid>
</Window>
Ok, it took me few days but in the end I managed to do something.
I had to make it by myself because there's no Metro Window for Net Framework 3.5.
I combined some of the references below:
Launch window's System Menu on custom window
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/107994/Taskbar-with-Window-Maximized-and-WindowState-to-N
http://blog.magnusmontin.net/2013/03/16/how-to-create-a-custom-window-in-wpf/
http://codekong.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/custom-window-style-and-accounting-for-the-taskbar/
http://blog.creativeitp.com/posts-and-articles/c-sharp/simple-methods-to-drag-and-resize-your-c-transparent-wpf-application-with-the-windowstyle-property-set-to-none/
this is the final solution
Known problems / bugs:
1. When resizing the arrow cursor appear instead of the resizing cursor.
2. Designer cant display the custom window.
3. When maximizing, randomly there's blue (the color of the borders) in big area of the screen - for split second
If you can fix any of the problems above it will be even better but I am satisfied with what I achieved.
EDIT:
Updated to allow resize modes (also added sample)
It's relatively easy to do this yourself... all you need to do is copy the Style that you see in the Metro UI, as you call it. To start you off, here is a very simple Style that changes the ControlTemplate of the Button elements to remove their default look:
<Style TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="Button">
<Grid>
<ContentPresenter HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalAlignment="Center" />
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
Of course, you'll want something to happen when the user moves their mouse pointer over the Button and you can do that by adding VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups to the ControlTemplate. You can find a full example of this in the ControlTemplate Class page on MSDN.
The other controls Metro-style controls can be easily developed by creating simple ControlTemplates in the same way. Basically, you'll just need to remove the default WPF look and for the most part, just replace it with just a ContentPresenter as in the above example, or an ItemsPresenter for collection controls. Luckily the Metro look is very plain and simple, just remember to keep everything spaced out and plain.
To address another point you mad about resizing; you can set the Window.ResizeMode property to CanResizeWithGrip to add the resize grip in the bottom right corner of the Window as is often seen in these applications.
i am learning WPF here is my XAML.
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Window1"
Height="300"
Width="634">
<StackPanel>
<Button Height="35"
Width="89"
Name="p1">Hello</Button>
<Border CornerRadius="5"
BorderThickness="1"
BorderBrush="Black"
Height="35"
Width="254"
Margin="91,192,150,79">
<TextBox HorizontalAlignment="Left"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Background="Transparent"
BorderThickness="0"
Height="35"
Width="250"
Name="txtContents" />
</Border>
<Button Height="23"
Name="button1"
Width="75">Button</Button>
</StackPanel>
button textbox is showing but the problem is I am not being able to drag the control to another location. how to fix it. please help. thanks
If you mean you can't drag the Button controls to different locations, it's because they're contained within a StackPanel - stacking them one on top of each other.
If you change that StackPanel to be a Grid, you'd have the ability to drag it around in a canvas-like manner.
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Window1"
Height="300"
Width="634">
<Grid>
<Button Height="35"
Width="89"
Name="p1">Hello</Button>
<Border CornerRadius="5"
BorderThickness="1"
BorderBrush="Black"
Height="35"
Width="254"
Margin="91,192,150,79">
<TextBox HorizontalAlignment="Left"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Background="Transparent"
BorderThickness="0"
Height="35"
Width="250"
Name="txtContents" />
</Border>
<Button Height="23"
Name="button1"
Width="75">Button</Button>
</Grid>
This question may shed some light on where to use Grids and StackPanels.
If by "able to drag the control to another location" you are talking about repositioning the control using Expression Blend or the Visual Studio Designer you need to change the StackPanel to a Grid
So it would become-
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Window1"
Height="300"
Width="634">
<Grid>
<Button Height="35"
Width="89"
Name="p1">Hello</Button>
<Border CornerRadius="5"
BorderThickness="1"
BorderBrush="Black"
Height="35"
Width="254"
Margin="91,192,150,79">
<TextBox HorizontalAlignment="Left"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Background="Transparent"
BorderThickness="0"
Height="35"
Width="250"
Name="txtContents" />
</Border>
<Button Height="23"
Name="button1"
Width="75">Button</Button>
</Grid>
I have a listview of width set to Auto. When I run the windows app, it opens in normal size(not maximized). But when I maximize the window, the listview's width will be same and the space to its right is empty.
normal size
|_________________________|
Maximized
|_________________________|...........
even though the window is now in full screen occupied.
Please guide me in workin on this.
Thanks
Ramm
StackPanel, by design, does not care about visual space. It aims to take up the smallest amount of space possible. You can leave the innermost StackPanel that wraps the radio buttons in place, but your outer layout containers should be changed to Grid or, as in my example below, DockPanel:
<Window x:Class="Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Window1" Height="445" Width="515">
<DockPanel Name="spDataFlow" Margin="0,45,0,0" >
<DockPanel x:Name="stkPnlDataFlow" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
</Grid>
<StackPanel Grid.Row="1" Background="Red" Margin="20,15,0,0" Orientation="Horizontal" VerticalAlignment="Center" >
<RadioButton Name="rdbtnUploadData" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" FontSize="12" Foreground="White" Content="Upload Data" IsEnabled="True" CommandParameter="UploadAll"/>
<RadioButton Name="rdbtnDownloadData" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" FontSize="12" Foreground="White" Content="Download Data" Margin="20,0" CommandParameter="DownloadAll"/>
<RadioButton Name="rdbtnUploadSelected" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" FontSize="12" Foreground="White" Content="Update Data" Margin="10,0" CommandParameter="UpdateSelected"/>
</StackPanel>
</DockPanel>
</DockPanel>
</Window>
Well, I believe that by default the ListView control automatically fills all available space so it is very strange that have such an issue. Could you paste your code?