I'm currently trying to create a header like in the Windows 10 Mobile settings app, which you can see below.
I have tried AppBar and SplitViews, however they do not fit my requirements. How can I create a header similar to this one?
There is no control that does that for you, but you can easily create such a header by your own:
<Grid
x:Name="Header"
Height="50"
VerticalAlignment="Top">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Viewbox
Width="50"
MaxWidth="50"
MaxHeight="25">
<SymbolIcon
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
Foreground="#FF1BA1E3"
Symbol="Setting" />
</Viewbox>
<TextBlock
Grid.Column="1"
Margin="10,0,0,0"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Foreground="White"
Style="{StaticResource BaseTextBlockStyle}"
Text="SETTINGS" />
</Grid>
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I have a TextBlock and TextBox controls inside StackPanel, and I need to stretch TextBox to resize by the parent size in UWP.
<StackPanel Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="1" Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBlock Text="Name:" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="130" />
<TextBox VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" />
</StackPanel>
This not works.. Any ideas?
The problem is the stack panel will only stretch to the size of the child elements so in your example you will only see one Textblock of 130 pixels and you will not see the TextBox.
To get the functionality you desire you should use a grid with two columns one 130 pixels and the other being * to fill up the entire column space that is available.
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="130"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="25"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<TextBlock Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Text="Name:" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="130" />
<TextBox Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1"/>
</Grid>
I usually wrap a TextBlock and TextBox pair inside a DockPanel
<DockPanel Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="1" >
<TextBlock Text="Name:"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Margin="5"
/>
<TextBox VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
</DockPanel>
Edit
For UWP which doesn't have DockPanel:
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition />
<RowDefinition />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="1" >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Text="Name:"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Margin="5"
/>
<TextBox Grid.Column="1"
VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
I worked out a similar problem in UWP
<StackPanel Margin="{StaticResource SmallTopBottomMargin}" Orientation="Vertical">
<TextBlock Text="Project Name:" />
<TextBox /> <--full width
<TextBlock Text="Exported Template:" /> <--full width
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition Width="auto"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBox /> <--max width - button width
<Button Grid.Column="1">...</Button>
</Grid>
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.
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>
I'm having trouble with what seems to be a weird issue with a listview in xaml for Windows 8.1. I'm using the Hub sample template that comes with VS 2013 Preview on Windows 8.1. For whatever reason, the first entry in the listview does not show up. I'm binding the listview with the sample JSON data provided in the app. It doesn't make a difference whether I bind to the sample data or to my own data in a sqlite db file either. I'd post a picture, but I dont have enough reputation on stackoverflow just yet... The intent is to represent data in a table with columns. Everything in the xaml works except that it hides the first entry in the listview...
Here's the code.
<Grid x:Name="TransactionGrid" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1"
Background="{ThemeResource AppBarItemBackgroundThemeBrush}"
DataContext="{Binding Group}"
d:DataContext="{Binding Groups[0], Source={d:DesignData Source=/DataModel/SampleData.json, Type=data:SampleDataSource}}">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
<RowDefinition />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid x:Name="TransactionHeader" Margin="0,0,0,5">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width=".5*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1.5*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1.25*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1.75*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width=".75*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width=".75*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width=".25*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="0"
Text="Date"
Style="{StaticResource SubheaderTextBlockStyle}"
HorizontalAlignment="Center" Margin="0,0,0,5"/>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="1"
Text="Payee"
Style="{StaticResource SubheaderTextBlockStyle}"
HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,0,0,5"/>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="2"
Text="Category"
Style="{StaticResource SubheaderTextBlockStyle}"
HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,0,0,5"/>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="3"
Text="Description"
Style="{StaticResource SubheaderTextBlockStyle}"
HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,0,0,5"/>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="4"
Text="Amount"
Style="{StaticResource SubheaderTextBlockStyle}"
HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,0,0,5"/>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="5"
Text="Balance"
Style="{StaticResource SubheaderTextBlockStyle}"
HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,0,0,5"/>
</Grid>
<ListView x:Name="TransactionListview"
Grid.Row="1"
ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource itemsViewSource}}"
IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="False" IsItemClickEnabled="True">
<ListView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid Width="{Binding ElementName=TransactionListview, Path=ActualWidth}">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width=".5*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1.5*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1.25*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1.75*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width=".75*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width=".75*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width=".25*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Border Background="{StaticResource ListViewItemPlaceholderBackgroundThemeBrush}"
Width="Auto"
Height="40"
Grid.ColumnSpan="7" />
<TextBlock Grid.Column="0"
Text="{Binding Title}"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Margin = "1,0,0,0"
FontSize="17" />
<TextBlock Grid.Column="1"
Text="{Binding Subtitle}"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
FontSize="17"/>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="2"
Text="{Binding ImagePath}"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
FontSize="17"/>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="3"
Text="{Binding Description}"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Margin = "0,0,20,0"
FontSize="17"/>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="4"
Text="{Binding Title}"
HorizontalAlignment="Right"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
FontSize="17"/>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="5"
Text="{Binding Title}"
HorizontalAlignment="Right"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
FontSize="17"/>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</ListView.ItemTemplate>
</ListView>
</Grid>
This was cross-posted to MSDN forum where product team is answering:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/8b9f3365-97d5-4405-a677-7b8638a32312/xaml-listview-in-win-81-not-showing-first-entry
A pretty strange thing happens when trying to use DataTemplate.DataTriggers in my XAML for Windows 8 Metro app.
In my App.xaml, I am defining template for my data. I'd like to use the DataTriggers, but when I type it my VS2012 editor, I get errors stating that
The attachable property 'DataTriggers' was not found in type 'DataTemplate'.
and
The member "DataTriggers" is not recognized or is not accessible.
A similar issue happens when I try to set the DataType property for DataTemplate:
The property 'DataType' was not found in type 'DataTemplate'.
What am I missing here? The DataTemplate works fine without these things, but still it would be much easier for me to use them in my project. Here a short snippet of my XAML:
<DataTemplate x:Key="MyTemplate" >
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="450" Height="100">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="10" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Rectangle Grid.Row="0" Grid.RowSpan="3" Stretch="UniformToFill" Width="10">
<Rectangle.Fill>
<SolidColorBrush Color="#FF425400" />
</Rectangle.Fill>
</Rectangle>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Title}" Style="{StaticResource TitleTextStyle}" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Teaser}" Style="{StaticResource SubtitleTextStyle}" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="2"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Content}" Style="{StaticResource BasicTextStyle}" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2" />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding TimeDesc}" Style="{StaticResource BasicTextStyle}" Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="2" />
</Grid>
<DataTemplate.DataTriggers>
</DataTemplate.DataTriggers>
</DataTemplate>
Triggers are only available in WPF, and not on any of the other XAML platforms. Common alternatives are VisualStates, converters, or making changes from code.