I think the title says it all. When I try to use the <Separator /> tag to put a line in between elements in a stack panel in a UWP XAML app, I get this:
When I hover over the separator elements it says that The type Separator cannot be found and gives the error code XLS0414.
Any ideas?
I've looked at many websites and they all say that I need to use the separator tag for what I'm trying to do, but I can't use it...
There is no such thing as a Separator UIElement in UWP. Separator is a WPF construct, so if you're looking at many websites that all say you need to use the separator flag, they're probably referring to a WPF application or using some toolkit nuget package.
However, you can mimic a Separator using a couple of workarounds.
Use a Border that has a thickness defined on only one edge.
<Border BorderThickness="0,1,0,0" ... />
Use a Rectangle that is shaped like a separator
<Rectangle HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Height="1" Fill="Black" />
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I am relatively new to the world of Xamarin.Forms and have a question with regard to Xamarin TableView.
I want to create a layout similar to the one shown below.
Question is, can I use TableView for this or is there an another option for this? Can anyone show this with XAML code please?
Thanks in advance.
Edit: Tabs in the bottom are not required.
I don't mean to be rude, but this is very easy to retrieve from the documentation pages and a bit of trying yourself.
To get you started, try this:
<TableView Intent="Settings">
<TableView.Root>
<TableView.Section>
<ImageCell Text="Invoice Customization" Source="Invoice_image.png" />
<ImageCell Text="Invoice Defaults" Source="Invoice_image.png" />
</TableView.Section>
<TableView.Section Title="Security">
<SwitchCell Text="Use Touch ID" />
</TableView.Section>
... etc.
</TableView.Root>
</TableView>
The arrows at the end of the cells and the footer text underneath the Security section are not possible with Xamarin.Forms out of the box, this will probably require you to write a custom renderer.
I want to display a textblock with latitude and longditude. In my model, the lat and lng are two variables, so I need to combine them, preferably with stringformat as this answer suggests. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like multi binding is supported in UWP applications.
That leaves me with a couple of options.
Create two text blocks that are bound to each variable and align them next to each other. I'm not sure if i need two extra textblocks to be able to display "lat" and "lng" in front of the values. And then an third label displaying "Position" in front of that again. This answer states that there is no stringformat property for Binding. A total of five textblocks is too much in my opinion.
<RelativePanel>
<TextBlock x:Name="EquipmentLatTextBox"
Text="{Binding Equipment.lat}"/>
<TextBlock x:Name="EquipmentLngTextBox"
Text="{Binding Equipment.lng}"
RelativePanel.RightOf="EquipmentLatTextBox"/>
</RelativePanel>
Create a value converter.
This also seems very unnecessary. I get the point of using converters to convert across data-types, but for concatinating strings there should be a buildt in property.
Create a property in the view model that returns a string of the values as it should be displayed. This seems like the best option as the method is not in the model, but i still think that i should be able to do this in the xaml markup.
Is there a better way to do this?
This can be solved by using runs. It's actually a lot easier to achieve this in UWP than with multi-binding in WPF. A TextBlock item can consist of several "runs" of text which can bind to different properties. The runs will behave like inline elements. Each run can have text directly between the tags, or as a text property. Each run-element can also have independent styling.
Documentation for the TextBlock class
For the example i provided in my question, i ended up formating it like this
<TextBlock x:Name="LocationTextBlock">
<Run FontWeight="Bold">Location: </Run>
<LineBreak />
<Run>Lat: </Run>
<Run Text="{x:Bind ViewModel.Equipment.Lat}"></Run>
<Run> Lng: </Run>
<Run Text="{x:Bind ViewModel.Equipment.Lng}"></Run>
</TextBlock>
The result looks like this
Location:
Lat: 00.000 Lng: 00.000
No, the Universal Windows Platform currently doesn't support multi binding. The best solution for you is indeed creating a dedicated property in the view model or alternatively using the two TextBox controls. As compared to WPF the binding syntax in UWP is more limited to ensure the best performance possible.
You could also consider using the x:Bind syntax to ensure strongly-typed and optimized bindings, which were introduced with UWP.
I have started to develop for WP 8.1 using Windows Runtime recently, and I have faced a... "problem" that I don't seem to understand.
The application I am currently developing uses a Hub control, and I would like to tweak its header's appearance slightly. To do so, I changed the HeaderTemplateattribute of the Hub control. However, as I tried to localize the textual content of the header (note that this is WinRT, the localization process is slightly different from the process in WP8 and can be found here), I "accidentally" fixed the problem by making the template like this:
<Hub.HeaderTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}"
Foreground="Red"/>
</DataTemplate>
</Hub.HeaderTemplate>
I don't understand why it worked, though. When you do data binding like this (just using the expression {Binding}), doesn't the element get the same DataContext as its father? What's happening under the hood? Who's the parent element of the TextBlock, after all?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT
As igrali asked, here is a more complete view of the XAML:
<Page ...
DataContext="{Binding Data, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}}">
<Grid Background="#FFF6DB">
<Hub Name="MainPageHub"
x:Uid="MainPageHub"
Margin="0,27,0,0">
<Hub.HeaderTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding}"
Foreground="White"/>
</DataTemplate>
</Hub.HeaderTemplate>
...
Then, in the /Strings/en-US/Resources.resx, I have a "MainPageHub.Header" property set to "foobar" (just an example), and what I get as a header is actually "foobar" (which is what I wanted, but even so it seems confusing!).
As Tim Heuer explains it here
Notice the x:Uid value here. This now maps back to the key in your
RESW file. Anything with that starting key will have properties
merged into it. So we can have a key in our RESW for “Text” using the
key name MyTextBlock.Text with a value of “Hello World” and the
runtime will do the replacement for you. This applies to properties
other than text (i.e. width) as well as attached properties.
All I can add is - notice the x:Uid. It's MainPageHub. In the localized resource file, you have a MainPageHub.Header. This means that the value of the resource string will be set to the Header of the control which has the x:Uid set to MainPageHub.
So, now that it's clear how the Header is set - there's still the binding part. Well, considering you have a different template for the Header, it needs to do the {Binding } part to actually get the value of the header which is set through the resources.
I've used the Multilingual Toolkit to translate my app and have been testing it using pseudo-language. It works fine for strings I have translated in code (C#) but I can't work out how to make it so that the tag in XAML is automatically translated.
I've been using http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/hh965329.aspx as a tutorial but I can't figure it out. I've also searched on Google but still no luck.
For example, I created a "Watermark" text box (which inherits from TextBox which shows some text in by default it the user has not entered any text and the item does not have focus. The XAML looks like this (I replaced generic positioning stuff with '...'):
<local:WatermarkTextbox x:Name="TitleTextBox" Watermark="MainPage_EnterATitle" ... Style="{StaticResource TextBoxStyle1}" />
As you can see it is setting a property called Watermark with a 'tag' of the resource name that is being translated using the Multilingual tool. I'm not sure how to get this to automatically translate.
Another example is using the bottom app bar buttons:
<Button x:Name="bottomAppBar_unpinFromStartButton" AutomationProperties.Name="MainPage_UnpinFromStart" Style="{StaticResource UnPinAppBarButtonStyle}" Click="bottomAppBar_unpinFromStartButton_Click"/>
And I can see in the link above that it says:
MediumButton.[using:Windows.UI.Xaml.Automation]AutomationProperties.Name
But I'm not really sure where this is meant to go.
Even with a button, which seems like it would be the simplest to translate I can't get it to work. The XAML is:
<Button x:Name="RemovePhotoButton" x:Uid="MainPage_RemovePhoto" Content="" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Margin="222,0,974,78" Grid.Row="1" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Width="170" Height="45"/>
But when ran in the app or viewed in the designed the button stays blank, with no text on it.
The Resources are set up like this:
And it is filling the translated documents fine:
I am able to translate it in C# using the code from the link above, just not using XAML.
Just wondering if anybody could help me out or point me in the right direction to solve this.
Thanks
First what i think is missing in the name of your resources is the property that you want to set. While never used it myself, i would understand it like this:
Your xaml needs to be changed to
<local:WatermarkTextbox x:Name="TitleTextBox" x:Uid="MainPage_EnterATitle" Watermark="" ... Style="{StaticResource TextBoxStyle1}" />
And your resource needs an entry with the key
MainPage_EnterATitle.Watermark
And about the part with the
MediumButton.[using:Windows.UI.Xaml.Automation]AutomationProperties.Name
This is only used if the referenced property is an attached property. Like if your Watermark property would be attached not part of the control. But in your case its not important.
I've been trying to get an App bar implemented in a WinRT metro app (C# / XAML), but don't know where to begin. I've tried using the <ApplicationBar/> tag and I get a Type not found error.
There's no help online, could someone update this post with the answer so that it'll serve as a reference to other programmers as well?
There's only a JavaScript sample which isn't of much help.
This should work:
<AppBar
VerticalAlignment="Bottom">
<Button
AutomationProperties.Name="Play"
Style="{StaticResource PlayAppBarButtonStyle}"
Command="{Binding PlayCommand}" />
</AppBar>
– you would put that in the layout root grid of your page.
*EDIT
Note: According to documentation - you should put it in Page.BottomAppBar property, although at least in Windows 8 Consumer Preview - it works fine when used in any Grid, which is convenient if your UI isn't tightly coupled to a Page control.
*EDIT 2, response from MSFT:
The recommended approach is to use the Page.BottomAppBar/TopAppBar properties.
There are known hit-testing issues in the Consumer Preview if AppBars are added without using these properties
The AppBars do not use the proper animations if they are added without using these properties
If AppBars are added as children of arbitrary elements then it's easier for multiple controls to attempt to create/modify AppBars, resulting in an inconsistent user experience
*EDIT 3
The CustomAppBar in WinRT XAML Toolkit can be used anywhere, animates based on Vertical/Horizontal-Alignment, can have other content overlaid on top of it and also has a CanOpen property that allows to block it from opening.
<Page.TopAppBar>
<AppBar>
<TextBlock x:Name="TextBlock1" Text="Sample Text" Margin="0,0,0,0" Height="Auto" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Left"/>
</AppBar>
</Page.TopAppBar>