I need to change the Background of a TextBlock in UWP but the Background property no longer exists. What is the solution for this?
This don't work...
<TextBlock Text="Exceptions Log"
FontSize="10"
Background="Red" // This is invalid
/>
Thanks
Just put it inside a Grid or a Border or something else...
<Border Background="Red">
<TextBlock Text="Exceptions Log"
FontSize="10" />
</Border>
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I have a Windows Phone 8 listpicker that I'm trying to change the background color of, however, it only seems to change the item background and not the dropdown box background as you can see in the screen capture. The dropdown box seems to be binded to the WP8 theme. How can I change the background of the entire dropdown box and not just each individual item?
<toolkit:ListPicker x:Name="BackgroundListPicker" Background="Black" ItemsSource="{Binding BackgroundsList}">
<toolkit:ListPicker.ItemTemplate >
<DataTemplate x:Name="BackgroundItemTemplate" >
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Background="Black" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Margin="0,0,0,0">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Image Source="{Binding BackgroundThumb}" Width="30" Height="30" HorizontalAlignment="Left" />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding BackgroundName}" Foreground="White" Margin="12,0,0,0" HorizontalAlignment="Right"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</toolkit:ListPicker.ItemTemplate>
</toolkit:ListPicker>
So your issue was that you were attempting to apply an image to an item. When you needed to hit the control itself that the items populate via ItemsPresenter so by pulling out the default style template for the control, and either making a place to pass in your image for an instance, or placing one directly into the template itself. You get your resulting background image for the ListPicker background to fall behind the items populating it.
Glad you found your remedy! Cheers.
In my application, I am having a ListView. ListView lists a set of images.
So when the application is running, and when that page is loaded, a list of images are shown.
<ListView ItemsSource="{Binding imageLists}" Background="Red" Tapped="ListView_Tapped">
<ListView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid Background="Green">
<Image Source="{Binding imagePath}" CacheMode="BitmapCache" Stretch="UniformToFill"/>
<StackPanel Name="imageTitle" Visibility="Collapsed" Background="Blue"
HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<TextBlock Foreground="White" Text="Dumy Image Title" FontSize="10"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</ListView.ItemTemplate>
</ListView>
As you can see from the code, I have one image & stackpanel inside the listview. And the stackpanel's visibility has been set to collapsed for convenience.
The StackPanel imageTitle resides inside the ListView. Stackpanel contains a TextBlock housing the images name. For now it's dumy text.
On Tapping any image in the list, I am trying to make the stackPanel visible.
The Code Behind:
private void ListView_Tapped(object sender, TappedRoutedEventArgs e)
{
imageTitle.Visibility = Windows.UI.Xaml.Visibility.Visible;
}
Since the stackpanel is inside the listview & I am trying to make it visible on the tap event of the listview, I am not able to acheive the needed result. I know my code is wrong.
If I specify the stackpanel outside the listview, I can make it visible using the code I gave inside the ListView_Tapped function. But even in that case, I need to show the stackpanel (name of the image I clicked) inside the listview item (image I clicked).
Any help??
Can this be achieved using only XAML?
Here's a pure xaml way.
Rather than changing the Visibility of the imageTitle (not a great UX), let's change its Opacity to make its appearing more interesting.
First we need to create a storyboard inside this data template. This storyboard will fade in the imageTitle in 400ms.
And then we drag a ControlStoryboard behavior from Expression Blend's Asset panel onto the top level Grid. Basically we want the storyboard to fire off when this Grid is tapped.
Please see below code for reference.
<DataTemplate x:Key="GroupTemplate">
<Grid Background="Green">
<Grid.Resources>
<Storyboard x:Name="ShowImageTitleStoryboard">
<DoubleAnimation Duration="0:0:0.4" To="1" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Opacity)" Storyboard.TargetName="imageTitle"/>
</Storyboard>
</Grid.Resources>
<Interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
<Core:EventTriggerBehavior EventName="Tapped">
<Media:ControlStoryboardAction Storyboard="{StaticResource ShowImageTitleStoryboard}"/>
</Core:EventTriggerBehavior>
</Interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
<Image Source="{Binding Image}" CacheMode="BitmapCache" Stretch="UniformToFill"/>
<StackPanel x:Name="imageTitle" Background="Blue"
HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Opacity="0">
<TextBlock Foreground="White" Text="Dumy Image Title" FontSize="10"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
Apart from JustinXL's answer it can also be done by using ChangePropertyAction. Also pure XAML:
<DataTemplate>
<Grid Background="Green">
<Image Source="{Binding imagePath}" CacheMode="BitmapCache" Stretch="UniformToFill">
<i:Interaction.Behaviors>
<ic:EventTriggerBehavior EventName="Tapped">
<ic:ChangePropertyAction TargetObject="{Binding ElementName=imageTitle}" PropertyName="Visibility" Value="Visible"/>
</ic:EventTriggerBehavior>
</i:Interaction.Behaviors>
</Image>
<StackPanel Name="imageTitle" Visibility="Collapsed" Background="Blue"
HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<TextBlock Foreground="White" Text="Dumy Image Title" FontSize="10"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
It's just another way to change a property - JustinXL's answer will provide nice animation with opacity, which will look much better.
I dunno why you specifically want to handle the scenario using XAML. For the Microsoft's recommended MVVM model you should bind a property to your element field and then you can write a converter for the same to return back "Visible" or "Collapse".
i'm using the textblock to display the content,but for the long content, it just cut off and not display the content fully while i'm sure that the i filled the content string. Pls show me where my code is wrong. Thanks
Link of the my screen: www.flickr.com/photos/37903269#N05/15332152972/
my xaml code :
<Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0">
<!-- <phone:WebBrowser VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Name="webBrowser1" /> -->
<ListBox Name="Listbox_DetailPage">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Content}"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"
HorizontalAlignment="Center"
/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
</Grid>
</Grid>
I executed the code shared and it seems to wrap text as shown in the screen shot below.
The screenshot you shared seems to have vertical cropping of the text as well. For that, we can set the ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility to 'Auto' with proper Height given.
Also, for your additional knowledge or may be future use, here are some stackoverflow questions which explains the text 'NOT WRAPPING' issue for StackPanel
TextBlock TextWrapping not wrapping inside StackPanel
TextBlock TextWrapping not wrapping
actually, i fixed it.Because of the limitation of sing UI: 4096px limit of size. So there is a need to split the long content in the more than one TextBlock or you can create a scrollabe textbock as here
I've created a simple user control for my xaml project, but as you can see from my image i cant seem to be able to do certain things.
Ignore the red line, its the size of the control for illustrate its size.
It's placement should be middle of the screen:
<Client:TileMenu HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Name="TileOverlayMenu" Background="Azure" BorderBrush="Aquamarine" BorderThickness="3" />
And as you see its background color should be "Azure" with a blueish border of 3.
Why is this?
In the background I have a Canvas:
<Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,0,12,0">
<Canvas Name="GameCanvas">
<Canvas.RenderTransform>
<CompositeTransform x:Name="CanvasRenderTransform" />
</Canvas.RenderTransform>
<toolkit:GestureService.GestureListener>
<toolkit:GestureListener DragStarted="GestureListener_DragStarted" DragDelta="GestureListener_DragDelta" Tap="GestureListener_Tap" PinchStarted="GestureListener_PinchStarted" PinchDelta="GestureListener_PinchDelta"/>
</toolkit:GestureService.GestureListener>
</Canvas>
<Client:TileMenu HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Name="TileOverlayMenu" Background="Azure" BorderBrush="Aquamarine" BorderThickness="3" />
</Grid>
As for my third problem, having the events in the canvas causes the Move slider to be interrupted, making me only able to push it a little each time :-/
In case TileMenu is a UserControl you would have to set these properties on the top level container in the UserControl's XAML as this defines the entire visual structure of the control.
You could bind to the appropriate values in the UserControl, however:
<UserControl x:Class="YourNamespace.TileMenu" ...
x:Name="tileMenu">
<Border BorderBrush="{Binding BorderBrush, ElementName=tileMenu}"
BorderThickness="{Binding BorderThickness, ElementName=tileMenu}">
<Grid>
...
</Grid>
</Border>
</UserControl>
I have a simple Rectangle in XAML
<Rectangle x:Name="rect" IsTapEnabled="True" Height="100" Width="100" Fill="#FF72BB5C" Stroke="#FFFB0000" Tapped="rect_Tapped"/>
It draws fine but when I try and click on it nothing happens.
I have tried making the stroke bigger and clicking that and nothing.
I have tried lots of the other events associated with the Rectangle and nothing fires.
Would there be a problem calling the Tapped event when I'm using a mouse and not a touch screen?
Just faced the same issue. Solved with IsHitTestVisible property for Rectangle and every view above it. True for rect and False for others. Though True is default, could be omitted.
I just found strange and funny solution for this.
If your layout looks like this:
<Grid>
<Canvas>
<Rectangle x:Name="rect" IsTapEnabled="True" Canvas.Top="100" Canvas.Left="100" Height="100" Width="100" Fill="#FF72BB5C" Stroke="#FFFB0000" Tapped="rect_Tapped"/>
</Canvas>
<TextBlock Name="Test" Text="Hi" />
</Grid>
Then change it to this:
<Grid>
<Canvas>
<Rectangle x:Name="rect" IsTapEnabled="True" Canvas.Top="100" Canvas.Left="100" Height="100" Width="100" Fill="#FF72BB5C" Stroke="#FFFB0000" Tapped="rect_Tapped"/>
</Canvas>
<TextBlock VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Name="Test" Text="Hi" />
</Grid>
I just added VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center" to TextBlock and now it works. Don't know why, but works. I'm going to go deeper into this issue.