I am working in a WPF application. And my problem is regarding the GridSplitter visiblity.
In my xaml code,I am maitaining a Grid. In the 3rd row of Grid, I am hosting a Winform DataGridView. In the same row, the GridSplitter is written.
When GridSplitter is dragged to adjust Grid Row sizes, for other controls like Buttons etc it is properly visible.
But when it comes over the DataGridView which I am hosting, the GridSplitter hides behind the hosted control.
In fact, whatever I host instead of Datagridview,makes the GridSplitter hide behind it, when it is dragged.
I tried setting the ZIndex for GridSplitter. It did not make any difference.
Can anyone help me with this?
Following is my XAML sample code:-
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Name="rowForButton"/>
<RowDefinition Name="rowForGridSplitter" Height="Auto" MinHeight="81" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Button Grid.Row="0" Height="50" Width="110" Content="Button in First Row"/>
<my:WindowsFormsHost Panel.ZIndex="0" Grid.Row="1" Margin="30,11,138,0" x:Name="winHost" Height="58" VerticalAlignment="Top" OpacityMask="Transparent">
<win:DataGridView x:Name="dataGridView"></win:DataGridView>
</my:WindowsFormsHost>
<GridSplitter BorderThickness="1" Panel.ZIndex="1" Grid.Row="1" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Height="5" ShowsPreview="True" VerticalAlignment="Top">
</GridSplitter>
</Grid>
Thanks.
Unfortuantely the WinForms control will always sit on top of your WPF elements, it does the same when you try and scroll it. The best way to work around it is to put the required logic for sizing/scrolling/whatever the WinForms part into a WinForms control, then host that control in the WPF form.
Your Grid has only 2 rowdefinitions but needs 3. At the moment the WindowsFormsHost and the GridSplitter are sharing the second row (i.e. Grid.Row="1"). Presumably you want the WindowsFormsHost to use Grid.Row="2".
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Disclosure:
I am new to WPF, about a week into it.
Problem:
I am trying to modify the behavior of a GridSplitter, to make it snap to interesting positions, to show a label (that follows the splitter) with current position, to have a context menu driven from said label, etc. I have prototyped all of this successfully on one gridsplitter in one simple test application, with a combination of XAML and some code behind.
Of note is that because the GridSplitter can't host content, I placed the label in the same grid cell as the splitter so that they move together.
So far so good....
Now I wish to replicate my work so that I can use my new GridSplitter functionality in place of the native control in many locations, and furthermore, I wish to have two variants, a horizontal and a vertical. Sounds like inheritance...create a subclass derived from GridSplitter and add in the additional functionality. But all of the reading I have done leaves me wondering how to go about this, and if this is even possible without starting over again and building my own GridSplitter from scratch?
Ideas welcome. Until then I will resume the fetal position.
Thanks
This answer might help you resolve your issue: How to make GridSplitter to "snap" into another element?
By subscribing to the GridSplitterDragCompleted event, you can insert your logic to snap to "interesting" positions.
You should
create a new control derived from GridSplitter.
subscribe to DragCompleted event to implement snapping functionality like DLeh mentioned.
add a few new properties for Label , ContextMenu etc.
supply a style for your new control.
This answers how to place content in the splitter
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
<RowDefinition Height="40" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Button Grid.Row="0" Content="Row 0" Background="Orange"/>
<!--<GridSplitter Grid.Row="1" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Height="20" Background="Purple"/>-->
<GridSplitter Grid.Row="1" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<GridSplitter.Template>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type GridSplitter}">
<TextBlock Text="TextBlock splitter" Background="Yellow" FontWeight="Bold"/>
</ControlTemplate>
</GridSplitter.Template>
</GridSplitter>
<Button Grid.Row="2" Content="Row 0" Background="Salmon"/>
</Grid>
My application UI is divided in 2 parts. Left side is Navigation Menu and Right is View Area where the selected Menu content is displayed. Now, one of the menu is reports. I am using Tabcontrol with Header and Content Template. Template has a ViewModel as DataType and content as the respective View which is a UserControl. This TabControl is inside a scrollviewer which is set as horizontal and vertical alignment to stretch.
The user control hosts a ContentPresenter inside a Grid which is bound to a ReportHost which has a reportviewer as child. I am using this ReportViewer to generate reports.
When the user opens a report, it opens in a new tab. It works fine till the number of tabs is such that the tabheaders are contained inside the viewing area. But as soon as more tabs are added, it causes the tabcontrol width to stretch, causing the content area of the tab to stretch and the contentpresenter also stretches causing horizontal scroll to appear.
This finally result in the report to stretch and due to some reason, unknown to me, the report overlaps the Navigation Area of the UI, as if it is not a part of the UI but is overlapping it. The whole report keeps on floating on top of the View Area and Navigation menu on scrolling.
I can fix it by providing the MaxWidth to the ScrollViewer but I don't want to do that. I would like the width of the tabcontroll or the Scrolviewer to be decided purely based on available View Area. How do I do this through the code or XAML without using fixed width.
I am not sure if I was able to explain the situation. Please let me know if more information or clarification is needed. I would be more than happy to provide details.
Edit: Adding Code for information.
<DataTemplate x:Key="TabContent" DataType="{x:Type VM:ReportViewModel}">
<View:Report/>
</DataTemplate>
<DataTemplate x:Key="TabHeader" DataType="{x:Type VM:ReportViewModel}">
<ContentPresenter Content="{Binding Path=TabHeader}"
VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
</DataTemplate>
<ScrollViewer HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Left" TextWrapping="Wrap"
Text="Reports" VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="10,13,0,0"
FontSize="18.667" FontFamily="Segoe UI" Foreground="White"/>
<Border BorderThickness="0" Margin="0,50,0,0"
Background="{DynamicResource Brush_HeaderNew}" Height="50" Width="Auto"
VerticalAlignment="Top"/>
<TabControl ItemsSource="{Binding ReportItems}" Grid.Row="1" Margin="0,20,0,0"
SelectedItem="{Binding SelectedReportItem}"
ContentTemplate="{StaticResource TabContent}"
ItemTemplate="{StaticResource TabHeader}"
/>
</Grid>
</ScrollViewer>
ScrollViewer presents to its child an infinitely large area on which to set itself out, because it reasons that it can just offer scrolling if it's bigger than the space available to ScrollViewer itself. Because yours has scrolling enabled in both directions, that means the TabControl can expand as much as it likes in either direction, and it's not going to be smart enough to know that it's inside a ScrollViewer and that you want the tabs to not take advantage of this virtual space.
From the sound of things, you might want to consider moving the ScrollViewer within the TabControl so that only the contents of the tab is scrollable rather than the whole set. You should be able to do that by modifying the tab content template.
I have the following xaml which resides in a wpf user control -
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="30" />
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
<RowDefinition Height="30" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<TextBox
x:Name="MyTxt"
TextWrapping="WrapWithOverflow"
Grid.Row="0"
/>
<ListView
x:Name="MyList"
ItemsSource="{Binding}"
Grid.Row="1"
/>
<Label
Grid.Row="2"
/>
</Grid>
This control is nested within a grid in a view. I would like to have the text box be a set height at the top of the grid, the label at the bottom showing as a fixed height at the bottom of the grid. I want the list view to fill the rest of the screen area.
The problem that I am having is the listview does not size correctly. If I have too many records that show up in it, it extends beyond the window and no scroll bars are available to scroll down. I therefore cannot get to the bottom to see the vertical scroll bar if the data stretches off to the right of the screen.
I was able to set the listview to a fixed height and that worked, but I would like it to be more dynamic and resize with the window if possible.
Does anyone have any tips that might get the sizing correct?
Thanks for any thoughts.
EDIT - Here is the xaml for the containing grid in the mainwindow view. this was adapted from the article by Josh Smith here
<Grid>
<Border
Style="{StaticResource MainBorderStyle}"
>
<HeaderedContentControl
Content="{Binding Path=Workspaces}"
ContentTemplate="{StaticResource WorkspacesTemplate}"
/>
</Border>
</Grid>
I do have the scrollviewer properties set as mentioned in some of the answers below.
Here is the datatemplate for the workspace
<DataTemplate x:Key="WorkspacesTemplate">
<TabControl
IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True"
ItemsSource="{Binding}"
ItemTemplate="{StaticResource ClosableTabItemTemplate}"
Margin="4"
/>
</DataTemplate>
Can you just add these properties to the listview?
ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll = "True"
ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible" <!-- or "Auto" -->
Everything else looks ok to me. You have the 3 rows, 2 of which are absolute, the other stretching. You also have the listview in the 2nd row, so it should stretch with it.
if that doesn't work, try wrapping the ListView in a scrollviewer
<ScrollViewer>
<ListView/>
</ScrollViewer>
What is the VerticalAlignment of a ListBox by default? You might need to set the vertical alignment to Stretch.
<ListView
x:Name="MyList"
ItemsSource="{Binding}"
Grid.Row="1"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
/>
I was able to get it working. If I change the containing grid in the main window to use a ContentControl instead of a HeaderedcontentControl, it works as expected.
Thank for any help.
edit: I'm rewriting almost the entire question because I realized the question was incorrect and confusing. I apologize for this, but the question had incorrect assumptions that made it impossible to answer. I originally tried to simplify it to make it easier to understand, but this made it impossible to replicate my problem.
If I have an DataGrid with a MinHeight in a ScrollViewer, I would expect that as my ViewPort shrinks, the ActualHeight of the element would be decreased until it hits MinHeight before the scrollbars show up.
Instead, it seems that when the datagrid's rows cumulative heights add up to more than the MinHeight, this value overrides MinHeight
Is there a way to do this without manually sizing everything and having a ton of code?
Example:
<ScrollViewer VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" Background="Red">
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Black" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition MinHeight="20"/>
<RowDefinition Height="80"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<sdk:DataGrid AutoGenerateColumns="True" Name="dataGrid1" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" MinHeight="20" />
<Rectangle Fill="Blue" Width="100" Height="80" Grid.Row="1" />
</Grid>
</ScrollViewer>
If you were to populate this grid with some rows, if you maximize the window, the grid takes up most of the space and has white space after the rows. If you shrink it down, the layout takes away from the white space until that space runs out, then the root level ScrollViewer kicks in, even though MinHeight has not been reached.
If you replace the DataGrid with another rectangle, the behavior is different (obviously). The new rectangle would shrink down to height 20.
How do I achieve this with the grid? My requirements are to have nested scrollbars on my SL page (which I find distasteful, but it's not in my control). The idea is that the top level scrollbars are a "last resort" of sorts.
What about this:
<ScrollViewer>
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
<RowDefinition Height="250" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Rectangle MinHeight="150" Background="Red" Grid.Row="0" />
<Rectangle Height="250" Background="Blue" Grid.Row="1" />
</Grid>
You did not have the Grid.Row values set on either of the rectangles.
You've not provided sufficient information to solve your specific problem. However, it is easy to demonstrate that the ScrollViewer does work in exactly the fashion you desire by distilling down to something as simple as:
<UserControl ...>
<ScrollViewer VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
<Border MinHeight="200" BorderBrush="Blue" BorderThickness="1" Background="Red"/>
</ScrollViewer>
</UserControl>
Put this in a standalone Silverlight application in the main page and you'll see that the ScrollViewer only displays the vertical scroll bar when the window is small enough. You can download the solution here.
This is because ScrollViewer itself has a border and padding that occupies little space of its own. Try considering little extra height that should match space of scrollbar border.
Another option will be to change the control template of scrollviewer and remove the border and extra space occupied around content presenter. And set horizontal scroll visibility to collapsed so it will not occupy space.
I am developing a simple WPF application without any auto layout. The goal is when a user clicks (mouse down) a element (say textBlock) will appear at the location of the mouse click. For this I am using canvas panel embedded in a Grid of 1 row, 1 column and scrollviewer (visible). The issues are:
1. when the application window is resized the scroll viewers do not become active.
2. I want the ability to auto grow the canvas with mouse drag. Something like in MS-Excel when user drags the mouse horizontally/vertically the canvas should grow.
I have searched net a lot to figure this out and am unable to get an answer. Any help in this regard would be great.
Thanks a bunch in advance.
-P
I after asking this question I figured it out how to have freeform layout and autosize. Here is a sample XAML if anyone needs it or has better suggestion to improve this:
<Ellipse Grid.Column="0" Fill="Red"/>
<GridSplitter Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"/>
<!-- Creating a grid with one row and one column"-->
<ScrollViewer x:Name="ServerLiistCanvasScrollViewer"
HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"
VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"
Height="Auto" Width="Auto"
Grid.Column="2" >
<Grid x:Name="drawingGrid" Grid.Column="2"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
Background="Pink"
MouseDown="handleCanvasMouseDown">
</Grid>
</ScrollViewer>
</Grid>