I'm trying to find a way to get rid of the border around the container of the MenuItems of a menu, in Expression Blend 4.
Here is an image of what I mean, I'd like to make the big white border around Item2 and Item3 disappear.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/dhOwY.png
And here is the XAML of this menu:
<Menu Background="{DynamicResource MenuGradient}" Margin="8,3,0,0" Height="26" VerticalAlignment="Top" ItemTemplate="{DynamicResource GeneratedMenuItem}">
<MenuItem x:Name="itm1" Header="Item1" FontSize="16" Foreground="White" Template="{DynamicResource CustomMenuItemStyle}">
<MenuItem x:Name="itm2" Header="Item2" Style="{DynamicResource CustomSubMenuItemStyle}"/>
<MenuItem x:Name="itm3" Header="Item3" Style="{DynamicResource CustomSubMenuItemStyle}"/>
</MenuItem>
<MenuItem x:Name="itmOptions" Header="Options" Foreground="White" FontSize="16" Template="{DynamicResource CustomMenuItemStyle}"/>
</Menu>
I think you need to edit the popup part inside the template of the menu item.
Related
If I convert my menu code from:
<MenuItem Header="Remove Special Event"
Command="{Binding RemoveSpecialEventCommand, Mode=OneWay}" />
To:
<MenuItem Command="{Binding RemoveSpecialEventCommand, Mode=OneWay}">
<MenuItem.Header>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Image Source="Images/RemoveSpecialEvent.png" Stretch="None" Margin="0,0,5,0"/>
<TextBlock>Remove Special Event</TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
</MenuItem.Header>
</MenuItem>
Now the Command CanExecute is not being applied to the menu item. They are all enabled.
Update
I don't particularly expect this to work.
It worked!
I can't reproduce your issue, and I'm going to take you at your word that it's absolutely disabled, but yet does not gray out the text. I suppose it might be a theme thing.
Here's one thing you can try: Instead of giving the Header property a visual tree fragment, try templating the plain string header content instead.
<MenuItem
Header="Remove Special Event"
Command="{Binding RemoveSpecialEventCommand, Mode=OneWay}"
>
<MenuItem.HeaderTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Image
Source="Images/RemoveSpecialEvent.png"
Stretch="None"
Margin="0,0,5,0"
/>
<ContentControl
Content="{Binding}"
/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</MenuItem.HeaderTemplate>
</MenuItem>
I don't particularly expect this to work.
I am developing a WPF application and I want the following functionality: If a user right clicks on a progress bar a small context menu should popup at the clicked position. This menu should just contain a couple of buttons which are lined up horizontally. Should I use the ContextMenu for this or are there better suitable WPF elements?
I tried a ContextMenu and this is how it looks like:
This is the XAML:
<ProgressBar x:Name="PgF" Height="10" Value="{Binding Path=FileCurrentMs}" Maximum="{Binding Path=FileLengthMs}">
<ProgressBar.ContextMenu>
<ContextMenu>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Button Content="A"/>
<Button Content="B"/>
<Button Content="C"/>
</StackPanel>
</ContextMenu>
</ProgressBar.ContextMenu>
</ProgressBar>
In the ContextMenu I have the space to the left and to the right which I don’t want and I read in other posts that it is not simple just to remove this space. Any ideas?
Try like this :
<ProgressBar x:Name="PgF" Height="10" Value="{Binding Path=FileCurrentMs}" Maximum="{Binding Path=FileLengthMs}">
<ProgressBar.ContextMenu>
<ContextMenu>
<MenuItem>
<MenuItem.Template>
<ControlTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Button Content="A" Margin="2"/>
<Button Content="B" Margin="2"/>
<Button Content="C" Margin="2"/>
</StackPanel>
</ControlTemplate>
</MenuItem.Template>
</MenuItem>
</ContextMenu>
</ProgressBar.ContextMenu>
</ProgressBar>
You need to put all buttons in a single menu item :) good luck
<telerik:RadExpander Header="View My Team" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="274" Margin="34,170,0,450" FontSize="20">
<ListBox x:Name="myTeam" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="214" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="264" Margin="0,0,-103,-1" Background="Transparent" Foreground="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="{x:Null}">
<MenuItem Header="Ben Clarke" Background="Transparent"/>
<MenuItem Header="Jack Davies" Background="Transparent"/>
<MenuItem Header="Harry Potter" Background="Transparent"/>
<MenuItem Header="Bill Gates" Background="Transparent"/>
</ListBox>
</telerik:RadExpander>
I have this code where my list box is inside the expander which is all working fine, but i cannot get the list box to be transparent background so that it just shows the names and then the roll-over effect etc ... The background is just appearing white.
As you can see i have added the background Transparent to all the MenuItems and the Listbox itself and it still hasn't worked :(
Maybe some usage of the Opacity property can do it? Either on the ListBox or on the MenuItems (don't know if they got Opacity property)?
Can someone suggest the best way to have a button with an arrow and dropdown list like in visual studio toolbar button new item. As you can find in VS the mouse hover is highlighting both default button and arrow button and after selecting an item from list the default button is changing according your selection.
Here is a piece of code which is showing drop down menu, but not for full functionality described above:
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Border CornerRadius="0" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1">
<Button Name="CreateButton" Click="CreateButton_Click" Background="Transparent" BorderBrush="{x:Null}">
<Image Source="/OMS.Resources;component/Resources/Images/LibraryImages/add1.png" />
<Button.ContextMenu>
<ContextMenu HorizontalAlignment="Right">
<MenuItem Header=" doc" Click="CreateDocButton_Click">
<MenuItem.Icon>
<Image Source="/OMS.Resources;component/Resources/Images/LibraryImages/add_sheet.png" Width="24" Height="24" />
</MenuItem.Icon>
</MenuItem>
<MenuItem Header=" xls" Click="CreateXlsButton_Click">
<MenuItem.Icon>
<Image Source="/OMS.Resources;component/Resources/Images/LibraryImages/add_sheet.png" Width="24" Height="24" />
</MenuItem.Icon>
</MenuItem>
<MenuItem Header=" txt" Click="CreateTxtButton_Click">
<MenuItem.Icon>
<Image Source="/OMS.Resources;component/Resources/Images/LibraryImages/add_sheet.png" Width="24" Height="24" />
</MenuItem.Icon>
</MenuItem>
</ContextMenu>
</Button.ContextMenu>
</Button>
</Border>
<Border CornerRadius="0" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1">
<Button HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Background="Transparent" BorderBrush="{x:Null}"
ContextMenuService.IsEnabled="False" Click="AddButtonContextMenu_Click">
<Image Source="/OMS.Resources;component/Resources/Images/LibraryImages/arrow_down.png" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="9" />
</Button>
</Border>
</StackPanel>
The solution is to make use a menu item and decorate it.
XAML Code:
<MenuItem Click="AddPresetButton_Click" x:Name="AddPresetButton">
<MenuItem.Icon>
<Image Source="/MyApp.Application;component/Resources/add.png" Height="20"/>
</MenuItem.Icon>
<MenuItem.Header>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBlock Text="Add Preset"/>
<Image Source="/MyApp.Application;component/Resources/arrow_down_simple.png"
Height="10" Margin="2,0,0,0"/>
</StackPanel>
</MenuItem.Header>
<MenuItem.ContextMenu>
<ContextMenu>
<MenuItem Header="Add 1"/>
<MenuItem Header="Add 2"/>
<MenuItem Header="Add 3"/>
</ContextMenu>
</MenuItem.ContextMenu>
</MenuItem>
C# Code:
When the menu is pressed the context menu is opened.
private void AddPresetButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
var addButton = sender as FrameworkElement;
if (addButton != null)
{
addButton.ContextMenu.IsOpen = true;
}
}
It looks like you have three problems to solve:
Styling / Layout
Highlight dropdown and button OnMouseOver
Change default button according to menu's last selection
Styling / Layout
Here are a couple of examples:
http://dvoituron.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/toolbar-dropdownbutton-in-wpf/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/llobo/archive/2006/10/25/split-button-in-wpf.aspx
I am sure there are many other ways (e.g. using a plain button and ComboBox styled appropriately)
Highlighting dropdown and button OnMouseOver
Experiment with triggers; e.g:
WPF Mouseover Trigger Effect for Child Controls
WPF - How to change children's style on mouseover of parent
Change default button according to menu's last selection
Try the MVVM approach:
The button element will be bound to a property on your ViewModel. Each menu item will call an action (ICommand) in your ViewModel. This ViewModel will know which menu item was called, and update the button's property on the ViewModel. The button will automatically update using data binding.
How to define MenuItem.Icon so that the MenuItemHeader text would be placed below the menu item image?Thanks for help!
How something along the lines of:
<ContextMenu>
<MenuItem Header="Reports">
<MenuItem.Icon>
<Image Source="/XSoftArt.WPFengine;component/Images/export32x32xp.png"/>
</MenuItem.Icon>
</MenuItem>
</ContextMenu>
The easy way way is to not use the Icon property but to instead put the icon in the Header:
<Menu>
<MenuItem>
<MenuItem.Header>
<StackPanel>
<Image Width="20" Height="20" Source="/XSoftArt.WPFengine;component/Images/export32x32xp.png" />
<ContentPresenter Content="Reports" />
</StackPanel>
</MenuItem.Header>
</MenuItem>
<MenuItem Header="Export" />
<MenuItem Header="New record" />
</Menu>
For this simple case the <ContentPresenter Content="Reports" /> can be replaced with a <TextBlock Text="Reports" /> because that's what ContentPresenter would use to present the string anyway. For more complex Header=, you could use the ContentPresenter as shown.
In the case of StackPanel use Label and not the TextBlock since only Label will allow you to have the mnemonics on the menu, like _Reports.