How do I edit the header of an Expander control in WinUI 3? - xaml

When I edit properties of the Expander control, the effects seem to only apply to the content of the Expander, rather than the header.
E.g. if I set the BorderBrush as black and the Background as aquamarine, those properties only apply to the content:
<Expander Header="Expander" BorderBrush="Black" Background="Aquamarine">
<TextBlock Text="Here is some text"/>
</Expander>
See what the above code looks like
I know I can use this syntax:
<Expander>
<Expander.Header>
<!--XAML content here-->
</Expander.Header>
</Expander>
and put XAML content inside the header. So I tried putting a StackPanel in there, and editing the border and background on that—but it only applied to a small portion of the Expander header, and didn't cover the drop down caret, for example.
How do I change properties of the header?

You can edit the default style but this might be easier:
<Border
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Background="SkyBlue"
BorderBrush="HotPink"
BorderThickness="1"
CornerRadius="{StaticResource ControlCornerRadius}">
<Expander
Content="CONTENT"
Header="HEADER" />
</Border>
You just need to set the Border's properties.

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How to resize NavigationView and SplitView in UWP

I want to enable user to resize the NavigationView in my UWP app. Couldn't find any resources how I could do that.
I see some of the apps have "Resizable splitView" but for SplitView also, I cannot see any such resize property exposed to set by default.
Pls help.
Thanks in Advance
There are no such property can resize SplitView and NavigationView, you need to custom layout to implement a similar effect. You could use Slider control and bind the OpenPaneLength Property of SplitView to Slider.Value to do this. Please refer to the following code.
<Grid>
<SplitView Name="CoreSplitView"
DisplayMode="Inline"
IsPaneOpen="True"
OpenPaneLength="{Binding Value, ElementName=MasterSlider, Mode=OneWay}">
<SplitView.Pane>
<Grid Name="PaneGrid" Background="Gray">
<Slider Name="MasterSlider"
MinWidth="480"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
Maximum="480"
Minimum="10"
Opacity="0"
Value="150"
/>
<StackPanel Name="PaneStackPanel"
Margin="0,0,10,0" Background="LightGray">
<TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="Use a slider when you want your users to be able to set defined, contiguous values (such as volume or brightness) or a range of discrete values (such as screen resolution settings).A slider is a good choice when you know that users think of the value as a relative quantity" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</SplitView.Pane>
<Grid Name="ContentGrid" Background="LightSteelBlue">
</Grid>
</SplitView>
</Grid>
The StackPanel that is directly under our slider, acts like a cover for our Slider. Notice the StackPanel has Margin="0,0,10,0", this translates to a 10px distance from the right wall, which allows the Slider area to be exposed as a gray strip that is used to drag the Pane, again the 10px is arbitrary but it has to match the Minimum of the Slider.

How to change the width of a control dynamically in UWP?

Tabbar is a very common navigation control on iOS and Android. But UWP doesn't seem to have.
I've seen an example XamlPivot(SHORTCUT)①, Use Pivot to make TabBar, The effect is very good, and I tried to modify it, so that the TabBar in the bottom, content in the upper.
My project is MasterDetail, Master part is TabBar(i.e TabsStyle Pivot), Detail part just a blank.
Now I found a big problem, TabBar each item does not automatically divide the width, then I try to use data binding and value converters to dynamically provide the width, the binding source is the ActuallyWidth of the MasterGrid, but the ActuallyWidth does not change with the window size, and when the Window on WideState, the Mater part will become blank.
So, How to change the width of the TabBarItem dynamically?
Various window size effect chart(Remove"()"):
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XAML:
<Pivot x:Name="pivot"
Style="{StaticResource TabsStylePivotStyle}">
<PivotItem>
<PivotItem.Header>
<local:TabHeader Width="{Binding ActualWidth, Converter={StaticResource AutoWidthConverter}, ElementName=pivot, Mode=OneWay}"
Glyph=""
Label="item 1" />
</PivotItem.Header>
<TextBlock Text="Content content content" />
</PivotItem>
<PivotItem>
<PivotItem.Header>
<local:TabHeader Width="{Binding ActualWidth, Converter={StaticResource AutoWidthConverter}, ElementName=pivot, Mode=OneWay}"
Glyph=""
Label="item 2" />
</PivotItem.Header>
<TextBlock Text="Content content content" />
</PivotItem>
<PivotItem>
<PivotItem.Header>
<local:TabHeader Width="{Binding ActualWidth, Converter={StaticResource AutoWidthConverter}, ElementName=pivot, Mode=OneWay}"
Glyph=""
Label="item 3" />
</PivotItem.Header>
<TextBlock Text="Content content content" />
</PivotItem>
</Pivot>
Converter:
public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, string language)
{
return (double)value / 3;
}
For the record, ActualWidth is NOT a DependencyProperty in UWP XAML model - so can't participate in bindings properly (it doesn't notify of changes).
So if you wish to do a binding like you're doing, you're going to need to expose ActualWidth in a bindable way. One of the easier ways of doing so is to a create a Behaviour explicitly for that, that attaches to the SizeChange event of the target element (in your case the pivot), and returns it's ActualWidth / ActualHeight / RenderSize as DependencyProperties on the behaviour. Your TabItems would then look to the ActualWidth on the behaviour instead.
(It's not done by default presumably because UWP XAML doesn't have read-only dependency property support, and binding too it can easily lead to circular layout cycles when layout rounding is in play if you're not careful)

XAML: MouseLeftButtonUp only fires when clicking text, not whitespace

I have a list box (in Silverlight) that uses a DataTemplate for the ItemTemplate. The DataTemplate is defined like this:
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"
MouseLeftButtonUp="RoleStackPanel_MouseLeftButtonUp"
Tag="{Binding}">
<TextBlock Name="roleItem"
Text="{Binding Path=DisplayValue, Mode=TwoWay}"/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
I have found that my event RoleStackPanel_MouseLeftButtonUp only fires if any text displayed in the TextBlock is clicked. If the user clicks any whitespace in the item to the right of the text, the event does not fire. So lets say the control is 300px wide but only has the word "Admin" in the item, you MUST click "Admin" and not to the empty whitespace to the right.
How can I make it so the events fires wherever I click in the item, on text or whitespace?
So a couple quick considerations to get you sorted.
a.) The area of your panel does not have HitTestVisibility by default. This is by design and intentional. To get your event to fire for the parent simply add the property of IsHitTestVisible="True" or provide a Brush for the panel via Background="Transparent" to it to invoke HitTestVisibility.
b.) A StackPanel will only consume the space required by its children. If you wish to provide a large area for a user to hit like you describe than swap the StackPanel for Grid which should consume whatever space is made available by its parent. Same rules of HitTestVisibility apply.
<DataTemplate>
<Grid IsHitTestVisible="True"
MouseLeftButtonUp="RoleStackPanel_MouseLeftButtonUp"
Tag="{Binding}">
<TextBlock Name="roleItem"
Text="{Binding Path=DisplayValue, Mode=TwoWay}" />
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
Hope this helps, cheers!

Xaml, How to bind a list of buttons over an image in different coordination

For a windows 8 Apps, i need to put a list of buttons over an image. Each button has CoordinateX and CoordinateY properties. I use a gridView to bind to the list of buttons.
I need to have the result as below:
Here is my code:
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" >
<Canvas>
<Image Source="ms-appx:///Assets/red.png" Stretch="None" ></Image>
<GridView ItemsSource="{Binding Buttons}"
SelectionMode="None" IsSwipeEnabled="false" IsItemClickEnabled="True" ItemClick="Button" Padding="0">
<GridView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Button Width="194" Height="51" Background="Gray" Canvas.Left="{Binding CoordinateX}" Canvas.Top="{Binding CoordinateY}"></Button>
</DataTemplate>
</GridView.ItemTemplate>
</GridView>
</Canvas>
</Grid>
But this is what i get after running the app:
Ites Likely that at runtime before the X and Y co-ordinates can be set for the items within the GridView, the GridView itself has its properties applied.
Since
1) the GridView is intended to be used for oganization control
and
2) you havent forced the Grid to fill the view space
what you're left with is a GridView that acts as it wishes and limits the ability of its items to conform to your style, should the style attempt to force the items collection to live outside the bounds of the control.
You could try to set the GridView's Horizontal Alignment property but even if it happens to work, its probably a better bet to use a less organized content control like the more basic ItemsPresenter.
Which ever control you end up using... make sure to check for /set the HorizontalContentAlignment & VerticalContentAlignment properties if they exist.

Scrolling Text Block/Area/Div in Loose XAML

Is there any way to display scrollabletext in loose xaml? The equivalent in HTML would be
<div style="overflow:scroll">some long bit of text here</div>
Can you do this in loose xaml?
From my experiments so far it seems that in loose xaml:
You cannot use TextBox -- it must be TextBlock.
TextBlock doesn't seem to have any styling settings which would make it scrollable.
ScrollViewer doesn't seem to be allowed in loose xaml.
Any help gratefully appreciated.
You can use a textbox for scrolling text e.g.:
<TextBox Text="{Binding YourText}" VerticalContentAlignment="Top"
TextWrapping="Wrap" AcceptsReturn="True" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"
MaxHeight="200" MaxWidth="300"/>
This will show scrollbars if your text doesn't fit in the displayed area.
<ScrollViewer Height="239" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
<toolkit:PhoneTextBox x:Name="newcTextBox" AcceptsReturn="True" TextWrapping="Wrap"/>
</ScrollViewer>