I am trying to render a WPF window that has lots of labels, textboxes, textblocks which are binding to data.
I want to be able to select by mouse all the data or part of the data on the window.
Is there a simple way in WPF to do that?
Should I use page instead of window?
Thanks
It is not possible to select text across multiple TextBox, Labels and TextBlocks in WPF.
Each control will hold selection specifically to itself so you must use another approach that will enable you to select the text.
I can think of one rudimentary way to achieve this is to have a very small button beside each TextBox,TextBlock, etc. that you wish to select and this button will perform a string concatenation of the associated text to the clipboard.
The result is that you have all the strings you wish to select in your clipboard ready to paste to wherever you like.
Good luck.
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I am building an application and I would like the one of the forms to look like the control panel
Would you use a listview with groups?
thanks
No, I don't think you can make the ListView do this. At least not without rewriting its painting routines.
It isn't going to be easy to replicate this layout precisely in WinForms. There's nothing you can just drag over from the toolbox that is going to do it. It is possible, but it will take some effort.
What I would do, conceptually, is break it up into pieces. I count 8 different repeated "blocks". So I'd create a UserControl that models each of these.
Inside of the UserControl, I'd have a PictureBox control to display the icon, a Label control to display the heading, and a TableLayoutPanel that can be filled with the desired number of LinkLabel controls. Set all of the properties of the controls so that they match, and then write public methods to set the icon, heading, and add/remove links.
Then I'd drop a TableLayoutPanel onto my form, set the margins to have lots of whitespace, and add as many of those UserControls as necessary. At the top of the form, of course, you'd need another Label to display the heading/instruction text. Make the form's background white, and you're pretty much there.
The logic to switch between views isn't implemented, but consider whether you really need that. It is important in Windows because users are used to the old way of doing things. This doesn't apply to you.
I'm trying to achieve a similar functionality as with RichTextBox while using the MemoEdit control.
With RichTextBox it's possible to use .Select() in order to select part of the text then use .SelectionBackColor() in order to change the backcolor only for the selected text while the rest of the text still has the same color. Sadly I wasn't able to achieve this since the MemoEdit control doesn't appear to have any similar methods for achieving this.
Anyone managed to get anything similar working using MemoEdit or has a good alternative (that allows the control to still be able to use the form skin) ?
Thanks in advance.
Textbox and RichTextbox are look like same.But don't know the difference.Please tell me anyone, When i have to use TextBox and RichTextbox as well in wpf.
See this Microsoft overview of the differences between a TextBox and a RichTextBox.
From above Link:
Both RichTextBox and TextBox allow users to edit text, however, the two controls are used in different scenarios. A RichTextBox is a better choice when it is necessary for the user to edit formatted text, images, tables, or other rich content. For example, editing a document, article, or blog that requires formatting, images, etc is best accomplished using a RichTextBox. A TextBox requires less system resources then a RichTextBox and it is ideal when only plain text needs to be edited (i.e. usage in forms).
A RichTextBox mainly used if you want more control over styling the text color, type, font, alignment ect. So anything you can do in Microsoft Word, you can do with a RichTextBox.
It can be used to save or display .rtf files with ease.
A Textbox is basically used to display or get one line input. You can have a multi-line TextBox which is used mainly to display or get more than one one-liner and keeps you from having to
manage multiple TextBox's. Also keeps your UI a little more tidy.
So basically the main difference is in styling. If you just want something plain and simple, use TextBox. If you want something fancy, eg styles, colors use a RichTextBox.
Have a look at this:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winforms/thread/a06ab05a-fbde-47ef-89c5-a7a57f32ffd3
A lot has been said about the differences in the controls' usage scenario.
An important technical difference is that TextBox supports DataBinding, RichTextBox does not, which makes it a bit nasty to use in an MVVM application. If you want a RichTextBox with DataBinding facilities, check out the extended WPF Toolkit on CodePlex.
i am trying to create a wpf app and have different parts in user controls.
in the navigation i have some buttons (now using the ribbon ctp). is it possible to change the main user control when different buttons are pressed in xaml. or is this just a bad way to do things?
sorry, really new to xaml and im trying to get my head arround it.
Further to what Carlo has said,
The way we do it is to have a blank grid in the place you want your controls to all appear and then use BlankGrid.Children.Clear() and BlankGrid.Children.Add() to set up which control is visible in this position.
We found that was the nicest programatically as we have a large number of custom controls, but Carlo's method would work nicely if you wanted to use the designer.
I think this is a pretty regular procedure in WPF. In my experience, me and other programmers put the controls where we want to show them and make their visibility hidden, collapsed or visible depending on what we want to show the user.
I want to create a combobox with some style. I dont want old dropdown what we are getting. I want some new dropdown which looks very nice. Is there any way to create a dropdown like that.
Plz give me suggestions
Check this link out on msdn. This is the actual control template for the combo box. You can copy and paste this into your application (within your app's Resources).
Create a form and slap a combo box on it with some data in it. Then start changing the control template and view the results. Start off simply by changing colors and adding borders around elements to see what controls which part. Then you can start switching out larger parts of the template to match what you're looking for.
one can start with the standard combobox, and then use various controls and styles to change the look and feel of the control, and it's corresponding drop down.