XAML UWP Adaptive Buttons - xaml

I am trying to implement two side-by-side responsive buttons and I want them to behave like on the image below.
This is my XAML:
<RelativePanel x:Name="contentPanel">
<Button x:Name="submitButton" Content="Submit"
Margin="0,40,0,0"
MinWidth="250"
RelativePanel.AlignLeftWithPanel="True"/>
<Button x:Name="annulerButton" Content="Cancel"
Margin="5,40,0,0"
MinWidth="250"
RelativePanel.RightOf="submitButton"
RelativePanel.AlignRightWithPanel="True"/>
<RelativePanel/>
Please, any help?

Use Grid with ColumnDefinition something like below.
<Grid Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Button x:Name="submitButton" Content="Submit" Margin="5" Grid.Column="0" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" />
<Button x:Name="annuleButton" Content="Cancel" Margin="5" Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"/>
</Grid>
and end output will be

You can use the open-source implementation of the UniformGrid for UWP instead of the relative panel.
Alternatively, you can try to put your buttons into the standard Grid control, though it may misbehave if resized to a rather small size. But as the buttons' minimal width is set to the same value in your case, you will not face this issue.
<Grid x:Name="contentPanel">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Button x:Name="submitButton" Content="Submit"
Margin="0,40,0,0"
MinWidth="250"
Grid.Column="0"/>
<Button x:Name="annulerButton" Content="Cancel"
Margin="5,40,0,0"
MinWidth="250"
Grid.Column="1"/>
</Grid>

Related

Creating responsive element in XAML

I am absolutely new in UWP and its responsive design, so I need help.
Where's the problem?
e.g. I need 4 responsive buttons on landing page, but in each view it looks quite the same. So the button doesn't change, but looks same on desktop, and same on the phone emulator (or when I change screen resolution). For better description, there are some screens:
Buttons on large 23" screen - looks good, but...
..buttons on small 5" screen (portrait) - buttons are larger then canvas...
So my question is: How to make buttons responsive?
Here is my sourcecode:
<Page
x:Class="STCApp.MainPage"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="using:STCApp"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d">
<Grid Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="83*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="998*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition/>
<ColumnDefinition/>
<ColumnDefinition/>
<ColumnDefinition/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Button x:Name="button" Content="Button" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Height="83" Width="480" Background="#33DCFF00"></Button>
<Button x:Name="button_Copy" Content="Button" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Height="83" Width="480" Grid.Column="1" Background="#33FF0000"/>
<Button x:Name="button_Copy1" Content="Button" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Height="83" Width="480" Grid.Column="2" Background="#3300FF0C"/>
<Button x:Name="button_Copy2" Content="Button" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Height="83" Width="480" Grid.Column="3" Background="#330080FF"/>
</Grid>
</Page>
For responsive design, we'd better avoid using fixed width and height. We can remove Width and Height setting in Button and set it's HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment to Stretch like following to make the button responsive.
<Button x:Name="button" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Background="#33DCFF00" Content="Button" />
In this scenario, each button will occupy a cell in the grid and their width and height will change automatically according to the size of the gird. Following is a complete sample and for more info about the layout design, please see Layout for UWP apps.
<Grid Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="83*" />
<RowDefinition Height="998*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Button x:Name="button" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Background="#33DCFF00" Content="Button" />
<Button x:Name="button_Copy" Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Background="#33FF0000" Content="Button" />
<Button x:Name="button_Copy1" Grid.Column="2" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Background="#3300FF0C" Content="Button" />
<Button x:Name="button_Copy2" Grid.Column="3" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Background="#330080FF" Content="Button" />
</Grid>
In this case it's better for you to use a RelativePanel which you can handle with Visual States that will change according to the available screen size. This might help
Windows 10 RelativePanel Sample

How to align images to the right and text to the left?

I'm trying to set my layout to appear as follows:
Using the following XAML:
<Grid >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Name="txtSiteName" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="auto"/>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" VerticalAlignment="Top" Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Right">
<tabs:TabItem Name="tabSettings" TabItemText="Settings"
TabItemImage="settings.png" Margin="5" />
<tabs:TabItem Name="tabDelete" TabItemText="Delete Site"
TabItemImage="delete.png" Margin="5" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
However, it's appearing as:
What do I need to do to get the images to align to the right, and have the text vertically aligned on the left?
Try This
<Grid >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Name="txtSiteName" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="auto"/>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" VerticalAlignment="Top" Grid.Column="2" HorizontalAlignment="Right">
<tabs:TabItem Name="tabSettings" TabItemText="Settings"
TabItemImage="settings.png" Margin="5" />
<tabs:TabItem Name="tabDelete" TabItemText="Delete Site"
TabItemImage="delete.png" Margin="5" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
A parent container isn't stretching to fill the available space.
You can try
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" >
<!-- etc -->
and, if that doesn't work, move up the tree until you find the element that's not stretching.
OP Edit in support of the correct answer:
It turns out this is correct - A parent container wasn't stretching to fill the space.
The parent container was the ListBox that I was inserting the items into.
Where before I had just this:
<ListBox Name="SiteListBox" Grid.Row="2" />
I changed it to the following to force the containing ListBoxItems to stretch:
<ListBox Name="SiteListBox" Grid.Row="2">
<ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
<Style TargetType="ListBoxItem">
<Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch"></Setter>
</Style>
</ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
</ListBox>
Change the TextBlock's Vertical Alignment to Center.
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Name="txtSiteName" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" VerticalAlignment="Top" Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Right">
<tabs:TabItem Name="tabSettings" TabItemText="Settings"
TabItemImage="settings.png" Margin="5" />
<tabs:TabItem Name="tabDelete" TabItemText="Delete Site"
TabItemImage="delete.png" Margin="5" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
And try switching your column definitions.

Buttons not resizing correctly in Landscape mode (Windows Phone 8)

<Grid x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,17,0,28">
<Button x:Name="ButtonOne" Content="ButtonOne" IsEnabled="False" Click="ButtonOne_Click" Grid.Column="0"/>
<Button x:Name="ButtonTwo" Content="ButtonTwo" IsEnabled="False" Click="ButtonTwo_Click" Grid.Column="1"/>
</Grid>
This is the XAML code I have. I would like to have the two buttons on the same row and of the same width. Right now, though, the two buttons are one on top of the other. Setting the button column doesn't seem to be enough, what else did I forget?
You don't seem to have defined any column definitions on your grid.
Try this -
<Grid x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,17,0,28">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Button x:Name="ButtonOne" Content="ButtonOne" IsEnabled="False" Click="ButtonOne_Click" Grid.Column="0"/>
<Button x:Name="ButtonTwo" Content="ButtonTwo" IsEnabled="False" Click="ButtonTwo_Click" Grid.Column="1"/>
</Grid>

Grid column definitions

Inside the same StackPanel I'd like to put a control aligned on the left and another one on the right side. I made an attempt using a Grid and defining ColumnDefinitions but with no luck.
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="72" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Left" Grid.Column="0" Orientation="Horizontal">
<Button />
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Right" Grid.Column="1">
<Button Height="72" Width="72" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</StackPanel>
The first column usually will take from 50% to 80% of the total width (depending on the content), while the second column will always take 72px. How can I set the first column so that it fills the total Grid width minus 72px?
Set the Width property of the first column to Star:
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
Making the change in your code should work:
<StackPanel>
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="72" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel Grid.Column="0" Orientation="Horizontal">
<Button />
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Right" Grid.Column="1">
<Button Height="72" Width="72" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</StackPanel>

XAML - Can't resize elements to 0 width in this case

Given the following XAML my goal is to keep the columns AAA, BBB, CCC always visible. The columns with the listboxes can resize all the way to zero though.
If I remove the ListBoxes then the application works exactly the way I want it to. That is, it doesn't have the weird behavior where the min widths are not respected.
With the listboxes (or DataGrids) the following XAML has this behavior:
After starting the application, if I drag the splitterA all the way close to BBB (BBB will keep the desired width of 25), then drag the splitterB all the way to the right then AAA will have the desired width of 25.
On the other hand, after starting the application, if I drag splitterA all the way to the right (AAA will keep the desired width of 25), then drag the splitterB all the way to the right then AAA will go off the screen. Surprisingly if I then drag the splitterA just a pixel to the left then both columns will "snap" into the correct place.
<Grid Background="CadetBlue" >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition MinWidth="60"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="CCC" Width="25" />
<ListBox Grid.Column="1" />
<GridSplitter Width="5" Grid.Column="2" Name="splitterB" HorizontalAlignment="Left" />
<Grid Background="Aqua" Grid.Column="2" Margin="5,0,0,0" >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition MinWidth="30"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="BBB" Width="25" />
<ListBox Grid.Column="1" />
<GridSplitter Width="5" Grid.Column="2" Name="splitterA" HorizontalAlignment="Left" />
<Grid Background="BurlyWood" Grid.Column="2" Margin="5,0,0,0" >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="AAA" Width="25" />
<ListBox Grid.Column="1" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
</Grid>
Why does it work when I remove the listboxes?
Note: I modified the question and XAML code slightly to clarify things and also to show what I just found about the listboxes.
I've been playing around with the code for a little bit and it looks like your main problem lies in the fact that your GridSplitters don't have their own columns.
The way GridSplitter works is it adjusts the column immediately to the left and immediately to the right of it. So simply adding an additional column for a GridSplitter won't quite cut it, since you will then have 4 columns in your Grid, and you need both columns to the left of the splitter to be affected. So I would recommend putting those in an additional Grid.
The other problem is the MinWidth of 50 you have on the outer grid does not account for the width of the GridSplitter, so it should be 55.
It seems like this whole thing could be done more cleanly, but since I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to accomplish, I kept the "spirit" of your code intact and updated some things:
<Grid Background="CadetBlue">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition MinWidth="50" Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="3*"/>
<ColumnDefinition MinWidth="55" Width="5*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="CCC" />
<ListBox Grid.Column="0"/>
<GridSplitter Width="5" Grid.Column="1" />
<Grid Background="Aqua" Grid.Column="2">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition MinWidth="25"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="3*"/>
<ColumnDefinition MinWidth="25" Width="5*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="BBB"/>
<ListBox Margin="0,20,10,20"/>
<GridSplitter Width="5" Grid.Column="1" />
<Grid Background="BurlyWood" Grid.Column="2">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="AAA" Width="25" />
<ListBox Margin="0,20,10,20" Grid.Column="1" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
</Grid>
Hope this helps!
It's a WPF bug:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/636072/msdn-forum-grid-layout-issue-with-minwidth-starsizing
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/wpf/thread/24460784-7d09-4627-89fe-975e0ca7b303
I got around it with a hack. If anyone has a better solution I'd love to hear it...
XAML:
<Grid Background="CadetBlue" >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition MinWidth="60"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="CCC" Width="25" />
<ListBox Grid.Column="1" />
<GridSplitter Width="5" Grid.Column="2" Name="splitterB" HorizontalAlignment="Left" DragDelta="splitterB_DragDelta" />
<Grid Background="Aqua" Grid.Column="2" Margin="5,0,0,0" >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Name="bbbColumn"/>
<ColumnDefinition MinWidth="30"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="BBB" Width="25" />
<ListBox Grid.Column="1" Name="bbbListBox" />
<GridSplitter Width="5" Grid.Column="2" Name="splitterA" HorizontalAlignment="Left" DragDelta="splitterA_DragDelta" />
<Grid Background="BurlyWood" Grid.Column="2" Margin="5,0,0,0" >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="AAA" Width="25" />
<ListBox Grid.Column="1" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
</Grid>
Code:
private void ToggleWidths()
{
if (bbbColumn.ActualWidth < 10
&& bbbListBox.Visibility != System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed)
bbbListBox.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed;
else if (bbbColumn.ActualWidth >= 10
&& bbbListBox.Visibility != System.Windows.Visibility.Visible)
bbbListBox.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
}
private void splitterA_DragDelta(object sender, System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.DragDeltaEventArgs e)
{
ToggleWidths();
}
private void splitterB_DragDelta(object sender, System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.DragDeltaEventArgs e)
{
ToggleWidths();
}