When I create a Silverlight project in the Visual Studio, then build it, the VS would popup a page with the silverlight that I just made.But that silverlight object always on the left-up corner, is there any way to make it in the horizontal center of the page?
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Ordinarily the positioning of the plugin content within the rest of the HTML page is a problem for the HTML/CSS to solve not the Silverlight. (If you want that look for CSS solutions that center any HTML element in the Viewport and then apply it to the object tag in the .aspx or .htm hosting your control).
However I'm going to guess you don't have any other content in the page, the page exists only to host the silverlight content. In this case it may be better to let the Silverlight content occupy the entire page. The default .aspx and .htm test pages are designed to allow the plugin to do that, you just need to move the Width and Height properties from the UserControl to the inner "LayoutRoot" element and set the "LayoutRoot" to have "Center" HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment.
In other words from this:-
<UserControl xmlns=".... blah...."
Width="600" Height="400">
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
<!-- Content here --?
</Grid>
</UserControl>
to this:-
<UserControl xmlns=".... blah....">
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Width="600" Height="400"
HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<!-- Content here --?
</Grid>
</UserControl>
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I have added Awesomium webcontrol in my WPF Page (Frame Navigation)
But its not loading any webcontent, but if i add the webcontrol in WPF Window, its working fine.
Please suggest me how to load a Awesomium webcontrol within WPF Page control
Below is the code which i am using in my application
Thanks in advance.
<Page x:Class="Project15A.SocialMain"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:my="clr-namespace:Project15A"
xmlns:my1="clr-namespace:Project15A.Controls"
xmlns:my2="http://schemas.awesomium.com/winfx"
MinHeight="300" MinWidth="500" Title="Project15A"
Loaded="Window1_Loaded">
<Grid Background="White">
<my2:WebControl HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="154,65,0,0"
Name="webControl1" VerticalAlignment="Top"
Source="http://www.google.com" />
</Grid>
</Page>
So I figured this one out. It is not a bug in Awesomium. (Though I think it should be on a quick start page.)
Awesomium supports two view modes. Offscreen and Windowed.
Offscreen is something that very manual. All input goes through you. (Why the default events don't still fire is kind of odd). I think this is the mode you will end up using if you want to interact with your HTML.
But if you want a normal imbedded browser window then you need to turn on the Window view mode.
Here is an example:
<Window
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:awe="http://schemas.awesomium.com/winfx"
x:Class="WpfAndSpa.MainWindow">
<Grid>
<awe:WebControl x:Name="WebControl"
ViewType="Window" <--------------+
Source="http://google.com"/> |
</Grid> |
</Window> |
|
This is the key part -----------------------------------------+
I am building a user control in WPF and put a few buttons in a stackpanel laying inside a grid. Problem is that when I build the app and run it, the buttons "sail around" and don't stay where I put them in the designer window. Is there any attribute I'm missing(or some sort of container?)?
Thanks.
Try setting the alignment properties of your grid:
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top">
...
</Grid>
I need a "Сarousel like" control in my windows phone 7 APP, there will be list of images and I need to switch them like items in Pivot. What control should I use? Pivot is very similar, but I need footer in my application.
If you(or anyone else stumbeling into this question hunting for fancy UI elements) want it a bit more fancy you could alternatively use the Silverlight Flow Layouts Library which is a very powerfull carousel system with a dedicated WP7 binary. I have not used this on WP7 yet my self, but I have used it with WPF and it both looks good and performs well.
You can use a Pivot control where you hide the headers, I blogged about a simple solution to this problem here:
A Windows Phone 7 Slide View with Page Pips
You can add your fixed footer under the Pivot control as follows:
<!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed-->
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="#EAE5C7">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<local:PivotLocationView Source="{Binding ElementName=pivot}"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalAlignment="Bottom"
Margin="0,0,0,10"/>
<controls:Pivot Margin="0,-30,0,40"
x:Name="pivot">
<controls:PivotItem>
...
</controls:PivotItem>
<controls:PivotItem>
...
</controls:PivotItem>
<controls:PivotItem>
...
</controls:PivotItem>
</controls:Pivot>
<!-- your fixed footer goes here -->
<Grid x:Name="footer" Grid.Row="1">
</Grid>
</Grid>
You can try to use the control from this Codeplex project Silverlight Carousel Control
and hope it does not use any non-WP7 features.
I want a custom Control in WPF which have a appearance similar to HTML, we use for showing Images in the centre of the screen with the whole screen locked and only image is showing.
I dont want to show images, I want to show UserControls within this section.
Can someone give suggestions of this?
In your Window, put all your controls in a single Grid, with a Border control (that contains your image) as the last item in the Grid (which means it will display on top of the other items). Toggle its Visibility via binding or code. Adjust styles as required.
<Window>
<Grid>
<!-- window controls go here --->
<Border Visibility="..." Background="#80000000"> <!-- EDITED -->
<!-- overlaid image (and/or other controls) goes here --->
<Image
Source="..."
Width="..."
Height="..."
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
VerticalAlignment="Center" />
</Border>
<Grid>
</Window>
In Windows applications this is generally achieved using a modal dialog, i.e. you create a normal WPF window and show it using ShowDialog.
I'm trying to figure out why the control does not honor ZIndex.
Example 1 - which works fine
<Canvas>
<Rectangle Canvas.ZIndex="1" Height="400" Width="600" Fill="Yellow"/>
<Rectangle Canvas.ZIndex="2" Height="100" Width="100" Fill="Red"/>
</Canvas>
Example 2 - which does not work
<Canvas>
<WebBrowser Canvas.ZIndex="1" Height="400" Width="600" Source="http://www.stackoverflow.com"/>
<Rectangle Canvas.ZIndex="2" Height="100" Width="100" Fill="Red"/>
</Canvas>
Thanks,
-- Ed
Unfortunately this is because the WebBrowser control is a wrapper around the Internet Explorer COM control. This means that it gets its own HWND and does not allow WPF to draw anything over it. It has the same restrictions as hosting any other Win32 or WinForms control in WPF.
MSDN has more information about WPF/Win32 interop.
You are running into a common WPF pitfall, most commonly called the "The Airspace Problem". A possible solution is to NOT use the WebBrowser control, and instead go for something a little crazier - namely an embedded WebKit browser rendering directly to WPF. There are two packages that do this; Awesomonium (commercial) and Berkelium (open-source). There's a .NET wrapper for both of these.
You could SetWindowRgn to fake the overlapping area by hiding it as shown here:
flounder.com
msdn
I solved a similar issue where I was hosting a 3rd party WinForms control in my WPF application. I created a WPF control that renders the WinForms control in memory and then paints it to a bitmap. Then I use DrawImage in the OnRender method to draw the rendered content. Finally I routed mouse events from my control to the hosted control. In the case of a web browser you would also have to route keyboard events.
My case was fairly easy - a chart with some simple mouse interaction. A web browser control may have other issues that I didn't take into consideration. Anyway I hope that helps.
I hit this issue as well. In my case I was dragging images from one panel into the WebBrowser, but of course as soon as my image moved into the browser it was hidden.
Currently working on the following solution:
When the Image drag starts, create a Bitmap of the WebBrowser using "RenderTargetBitmap"
Add your Bitmap to the canvas, using the same width/location as the webbrowser
webControl.Visibility = Visibility.Hidden.
When the drag is released, remove your bitmap and set webControl.Visibility = Visible.
This solution is very specific to my situation, but maybe it will give you some ideas.
I managed to solve this by using this structure, check out the properties configuration in each element:
<Canvas ClipToBounds="False">
<Popup AllowsTransparency="True" ClipToBounds="False" IsOpen="True">
<Expander>
<Grid x:Name="YourContent"/>
</Expander>
<Popup>
</Canvas>
You just have to manage the Expander to show or hide your content, I'm using it for a menu bar, I think that the expander is optional depending on the case.
Check out this picture with the result, you can even show your controls on top of the WebBrowser and even outside the main window: