When I have Grid in Silverlight, and I provide Column Definitions like below
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition></ColumnDefinition>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
For some reason the items that get placed in those columns get cut off.
That is I only see half the control.
But when I do
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition></RowDefinition>
<RowDefinition></RowDefinition>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
and put items in those respected rows I can see the entire items with their proper respective widths and heights.
What could I be overlooking?
Thanks
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition></ColumnDefinition>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
is actually just a short cut for
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.5*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.5*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
which means, you have two columns in this Grid, each takes 50% of the width.
Same way,
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition></RowDefinition>
<RowDefinition></RowDefinition>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
is the same as
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="0.5*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="0.5*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
Hope this helps. :)
Look for following link. It should help you:
Using the Grid control in Silverlight
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I'm trying to design a layout in a WPF window but I'm having a bit of trouble. enter image description here
That is the layout Im after. Ive tried grids, stack panels, etc.. but I cannot get the right docking or they overlap.
Any ideas ?? Thanks!
First make 2 rows , then 2nd row with 3 cols
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="20*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="80*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Row="1">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="20*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="60*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="20*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
</Grid>
</Grid>
I'm having trouble with placing a textbox inside a groupbox (which is inside a grid). Since groupbox can contain only one children I created a grid to place labels and textboxes. The problem is - the textboxes created inside the groupboxes are left aligned according to the 2nd column of the grid inside the groupbox. I need the textboxes to be aligned left in the 2nd column of the main grid.
My xaml code
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<GroupBox Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2">
<GroupBox.Header>
<Label Content="Header"></Label>
</GroupBox.Header>
<Grid Grid.Row="0" Column="0">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Label Grid.Column="0" Content="Label1:"/>
<TextBox Grid.Column="1" />
<Label Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="1" Content="Label2:"/>
<TextBox Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1"/>
</Grid>
</GroupBox>
</Grid>
Output for this code
You could see the textboxes in the column 1 of the main grid. If you look at the image, there is a radio button below that row which is in the second column. I need the textboxes to be aligned with that radiobutton I need them in the second column.
Width="Auto" means the Column will automatically take a width.
You need to use something like this instead;
`<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>`
Have a look at this ColumnWidths for further explanation if needed.
To move the TextBoxes to the next Column in the main Grid, you need to remove them from the GroupBox and add them to the main Grid instead. You haven't posted the whole XAML so it's difficult to advise further.
if there are going to be only two columns in your grid then just below column definitions for your inner Grid:
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="50*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="50*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
As you want to align with the radio buttons that must be in second column of main grid then for ColSpan=2 this will perfectly.
When Width is set to Auto for a ColumnDefinition of a Grid it
will take the width of element defined in the Column , So that's
the first thing you should remove a you are not using fixed Width
for TextBoxes.
What I have when size of Border container is wide enough:
Name Value NameLonger Value
then size of Border gets smaller and I have something like this:
Name Value NameLonger V
I used WrapPanel and achieved something like this:
Name Value
NameLonger Value
It is better but I would like to achieve something like this:
Name Value
NameLonger Value
Is it possible to achieve such thing?
not sure if i totally understand what you are explaining but based on what i think yiou are describing, would this be what you are looking for?
<Border>
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"></ColumnDefinition>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"></RowDefinition>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"></RowDefinition>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<!--Put your textblocks in here-->
</Grid>
</Border>
Use a grid as your container panel. Set the first column width to use as much width as it needs ("auto") and the second column to use the rest ("*").
Place the textblock in the first column, and the textbox in the second.
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"></ColumnDefinition>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<textblock .../>
<textbox grid.column="1".../>
</Grid>
I have a fixed layout and would like my app to look the same on all machines, regardless of screen size or resolution. While testing my app with the Simulator, I've found that my layout is cut off on different resolution.
<Viewbox Stretch="UniformToFill" Width="Auto" Height="Auto">
<Grid Style="{StaticResource LayoutRootStyle}" x:Name="LayoutRoot" Width="1024" Height="Auto">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="65"/>
<RowDefinition Height="50"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
On the resolutions specified above, the last column is cut off. The rows all render without any problems. I am wondering if someone could please give me some insight as to what I may be able to do in order to get my app to look the same on all screen sizes and resolutions. I would prefer to have the Stretch property set to either Uniform or UniformToFill.
I want to have a childGrid in second column of parentGrid (in childGrid I want to have two columns: first for label, second for textbox)
How can I do Something like that? I tried the following code:
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Height="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Column=1>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Height="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
</Grid>
</Grid>
Based on your code, just fixed up a little:
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Column="1">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
</Grid>
</Grid>
Note that ColumnDefinition don't have a Height - they have a Width. You also need to define the ColumnDefinitions and RowDefinitions separately - you have them mixed together in your outer grid. I removed the RowDefinitions from the outer grid because you don't appear to be using them. Your inner grid has two columns and four rows.
You might find this useful. Try pasting this into a page using Kaxaml and playing around with the various parameters of the objects in the outer Grid. I find using Kaxaml for prototyping and experimenting with XAML layouts indispensable.
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<!--
When I'm composing grids in XAML, I group things together by type, not by where
they live in the grid. This turns out to make a lot of maintenance tasks
easier.
Also, since Grid.Row and Grid.Column default to 0, a lot of people (and tools)
omit them if that's their value. Not me. It lets me quickly check to make
sure that content is where I think it is, just by looking at how it's organized
in the XAML.
-->
<TextBlock Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Background="Lavender" Padding="10" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">Here's the first row of the outer grid.</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Background="Lavender" Padding="10" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">Here's the third row of the outer grid.</TextBlock>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Background="AliceBlue" Padding="10">Here's the first column of the second row.</TextBlock>
<Grid Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<!--
This part's pretty important. Setting up the SharedSizeGroups for these
two columns keeps the labels and text boxes neatly arranged irrespective of
their length.
-->
<ColumnDefinition SharedSizeGroup="Label"/>
<ColumnDefinition SharedSizeGroup="TextBox"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Label Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0">First label</Label>
<Label Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0">Second label</Label>
<Label Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0">Third label, containing unusually long content</Label>
<TextBox Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1">First text box, containing unusually long content</TextBox>
<TextBox Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1">Second text box</TextBox>
<TextBox Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="1">Third text box</TextBox>
</Grid>
</Grid>
It might come a little confusing how to put controls in sub grids. Here is an example.
We have 3 * 3 cell grid. And then center cell is further divided in 3 rows where each row has a button.
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="1">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Button Grid.Row="0" Content="Button1"/>
<Button Grid.Row="1" Content="Button2"/>
<Button Grid.Row="2" Content="Button3"/>
</Grid>
</Grid>
Result:
Phenevo, I've done XAML UI design extensively this year. Try this out, you can easily migrate the code to either a Window or a UserControl. I color-coded the grids and panels so that you could affirm their layout in real time -- blow away the background parameters when you're satisfied.
<UserControl
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"
mc:Ignorable="d"
x:Class="UatControlLibrary.sampleChilGrid"
x:Name="UserControl"
MinWidth="400"
MinHeight="300"
Width="auto"
Height="auto">
<Grid
x:Name="LayoutRoot">
<Grid
x:Name="parentGrid"
Width="auto"
Height="auto"
Background="Red">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition
Width="1*" />
<ColumnDefinition
Width="1*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid
x:Name="chilGrid"
Width="auto"
Height="auto"
Background="Black"
Grid.Column="1"
Grid.Row="0">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition
Width="1*" />
<ColumnDefinition
Width="1*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel
x:Name="stkpnlLabels"
Background="White"
Grid.Column="0"
Grid.Row="0" />
<StackPanel
x:Name="stkpnlTextboxes"
Background="Blue"
Grid.Column="1"
Grid.Row="0" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
</Grid>
</UserControl>