Given the following markup, I would have expected the chevron to go all the way to the right of the button, but it doesn't - instead, the stack panel and the chevron are tight together in the middle of the button.
<Button Background="Teal" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Stretch">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"></ColumnDefinition>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
Grid.Column="0">
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center"
TextAlignment="Center"
FontSize="60">Click!</TextBlock>
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
TextAlignment="Center"
FontSize="20">Cool things will happen</TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="1"
FontSize="60"
FontFamily="Segoe UI Symbol">
<!-- unicode for chevron right in this font -->
</TextBlock>
</Grid>
</Button>
You can try to set the HorizontalContentAlignment of the button to Stretch.
Related
Why does my UWP (Universal Windows Platform) App force extra space at the top and bottom of my app even though there is nothing there?
Here's what it looks like:
Even though in Visual Studio 2013 (design mode) you can see that the blue bounding box displays the bottom of the page as follows:
The outer grey is the device it would be running on.
The XAML looks like the following:
<Page
x:Class="CYaPass.MainPage"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="using:CYaPass"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d"
Height="515" Width="570" Background="LightGray" Loaded="Page_Loaded">
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="320"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0">
<TextBlock FontSize="16" HorizontalAlignment="Center">1. Select a Site/Key</TextBlock>
<ListView BorderThickness="2" BorderBrush="Aquamarine"
x:Name="SiteListBox" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Center" Height="251"
Margin="10,10,0,0" Width="Auto" SelectionChanged="SiteListBox_SelectionChanged">
<ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
<Style TargetType="ListViewItem">
<Setter Property="Padding" Value="5,0,0,0" />
</Style>
</ListView.ItemContainerStyle>
<ListViewItem Content="Item 2"/>
</ListView>
<StackPanel Margin="10,0,0,0" Orientation="Horizontal" Grid.Column="0">
<Button x:Name="DeleteSiteButton" Content="Delete Site"
HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,0,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Click="DeleteSiteButton_Click"/>
<Button x:Name="AddSiteButton" Content="Add Site" HorizontalAlignment="Right"
Margin="10,0,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Click="AddSiteButton_Click"/>
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
<TextBox x:Name="passwordTextBox" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="7,150,0,0" Grid.Row="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="2"
TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="560"/>
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="128" Margin="10,0,0,0" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="1"
VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="285">
<Grid Margin="0,0,-11,0">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="40" ></RowDefinition>
<RowDefinition Height="40" ></RowDefinition>
<RowDefinition Height="40" ></RowDefinition>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="180"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<CheckBox x:Name="addUppercaseCheckbox" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" Content="Add Uppercase" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="254" Click="addUppercaseCheckbox_Click" Margin="7,0,3,0"/>
<CheckBox x:Name="addSpecialCharscheckBox" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Content="Add Special Chars" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Center" Margin="7,0,3,0"/>
<TextBox x:Name="specialCharsTextBox" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" Margin="7,0,3,0" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Grid.RowSpan="1" TextWrapping="NoWrap" Text="#"/>
<CheckBox x:Name="setMaxLengthCheckBox" Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0" Content="Set Max Length" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Center" Margin="7,0,3,0"/>
<local:NumericUpDown Grid.Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="7,0,3,0" Grid.Row="2" VerticalAlignment="Center" Width="64"/>
</Grid>
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0">
<TextBlock Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" FontSize="16" HorizontalAlignment="Center">2. Draw a pattern</TextBlock>
<Canvas HorizontalAlignment="Center" x:Name="MainCanvas"
Height="252" Width="252" Margin="7,10,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Background="AliceBlue" Tapped="MainCanvas_Tapped" PointerMoved="MainCanvas_PointerMoved"/>
<Button x:Name="ClearGridButton" Content="Clear"
Margin="50,0,10,0" VerticalAlignment="Center" Click="ClearGridButton_Click" HorizontalAlignment="Right"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</Page>
You can see the page's width is wider than the height, but when the app runs on a desktop or a simulator device (like 7" pad) the extra space is pushed into the top and the bottom.
UWP Forced Minimum?
Is this due to some minimum size or something that UWP forces on apps?
Cannot Resize Smaller When Running
Even if I grab the form's bottom or top bounding frame when the app is running, I cannot make it any smaller.
The Default Content-Alignment is set to Center because you set the Height and Width of your Page, so your page is placed in the Center and isn't filling the whole Screen.
One Possible Solution is to add to the Page xaml Attributes this Piece of Code:
VerticalAlignment="Top".
To set the HorizontalAlignment to the left add this:
HorizontalAlignment="Left".
One more advise: When you don't Need to Display more than one xaml Page at the Screen leave the Page Height and Width to Default.
I have 3 controls in a Grid.Row but how can I make them use the full width of the page?
This is my xaml:
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="140" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Image Grid.Column="0"
Grid.Row="1"
Source="/Assets/image1.png"
Height="25"
Width="25" />
<TextBox Grid.Column="1"
Margin="10,0,0,0"
Text="{Binding InputText, Mode=TwoWay}"
BorderBrush="Black"
BorderThickness="2"
VerticalAlignment="Center">
</TextBox>
<Button Grid.Column="2"
BorderThickness="2"
HorizontalAlignment="Right"
Command="{Binding AddTextCommand}"
Margin="10,0,0,0">
<TextBlock x:Uid="ButtonText" />
</Button>
</Grid>
This is now the result:
As you can see it is aligned left, how can I make it use the full width?
You're code only shows 3 controls (Image, TextBox, Button), while your screenshot gives 4 controls. I suppose the full width control on top is missing, but that's no problem to answer the question.
If we break down your XAML, you have:
First column width Auto, filled with an image.
Second column width 140, filled with a TextBox
Third column width * (or the rest of the space), filled with a Button
On the button you have placed HorizontalAlignment="Right" (default is Left), in which you're saying: only use the space necessary and put the control on the right side. If you want to use the full width available, you have to use HorizontalAlignment="Stretch".
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="140" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Image Grid.Column="0"
Source="/Assets/image1.png"
Height="25"
Width="25" />
<TextBox Grid.Column="1"
Margin="10,0,0,0"
Text="{Binding InputText, Mode=TwoWay}"
BorderBrush="Black"
BorderThickness="2"
VerticalAlignment="Center">
</TextBox>
<Button Grid.Column="2" x:Uid="ButtonText"
BorderThickness="2"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
Command="{Binding AddTextCommand}"
Margin="10,0,0,0" />
</Grid>
Note that I have also removed the TextBlock from the Button and move the x:Uid tag to the button. Simply use ButtonText.Content in your resources to have your button localized, there's no need to place a TextBlock in there.
I've posted a similar question in the past but never quite resolved it and so here I am again.
In my layout grid, I have an image which takes the full area but I also display another grid which is vertically aligned to the bottom, has its background color set and its opacity set to .5.
This part works fine.
Now, I want to display another grid within that grid which will contain another image (a logo) and a TextBlock which contains a description.
My problem is that both the image and textblock are being dimmed. While I have no problem with the logo being dimmed, I do want to keep my description fully opaque but can't seem to be able to do this.
Is there a way to achieve this? Note I'm trying to build a custom tile for WP8.
Here is the code:
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="{StaticResource PhoneChromeBrush}">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition></RowDefinition>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Image Stretch="UniformToFill" Source="/Assets/0.jpeg" ></Image>
<Grid Background="#0F558E" Opacity="0.5" Visibility="Visible" Height="100" VerticalAlignment="Bottom">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="100"/>
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Image Source="/Assets/Tiles/FlipCycleTileSmall.png" Width="100" Height="100" Grid.Column="0" Opacity="1" ></Image>
<TextBlock Foreground="White" FontSize="30" Text="This is a simple description of the article" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="10,0,30,0" Grid.Column="1" Opacity="1" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
Thanks.
As you found out, everything that is a child of that grid is going to have a 0.5 opacity, and any opacity settings on the children are going to be relative to that.
Could you just overlay a third grid on top of the second that has the same sizing and contains your image and text? I don't have anything in front of me to test this at the moment, but something like:
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="{StaticResource PhoneChromeBrush}">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition></RowDefinition>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Image Stretch="UniformToFill" Source="/Assets/0.jpeg" ></Image>
<Grid Background="#0F558E" Opacity="0.5" Visibility="Visible" Height="100" VerticalAlignment="Bottom">
</Grid>
<Grid Visibility="Visible" Height="100" VerticalAlignment="Bottom">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="100"/>
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Image Source="/Assets/Tiles/FlipCycleTileSmall.png" Width="100" Height="100" Grid.Column="0" Opacity="1" ></Image>
<TextBlock Foreground="White" FontSize="30" Text="This is a simple description of the article" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="10,0,30,0" Grid.Column="1" Opacity="1" />
</Grid>
</Grid>
I have list box in my WP8 and I can't scroll to down.When I try to scroll down the whole list moves to down .I dont know how to explain it but it does what it shouldn't do. it is like i drag list down.i just want to scroll
here is my xaml code
<Grid x:Name="columngrid" >
<ListBox Name="URLListBox" >
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid Background="Transparent" Margin="0,0,0,3" >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="170"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="100"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="100"></ColumnDefinition>
<ColumnDefinition Width="100"></ColumnDefinition>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock x:Name="surename" Grid.Column="0" Text="{Binding text}" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center"/>
<Button Tag="{Binding b1Tag}" Grid.Column="1" Content="download" Height="72" Name="button1" Width="100" FontSize="15" Click="addButton_Click"/>
<Button Tag="{Binding b1Tag}" Grid.Column="2" Content="play" Height="72" Name="play_Click" Width="100" FontSize="15" Click="play_Click"/>
<Button Tag="{Binding b1Tag}" Grid.Column="3" Content="pause" Height="72" Name="pause_Click" Width="100" FontSize="15" Click="pause_Click"/>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
</Grid>
I think the problem is that your listbox is sizing to the content.
When this happens it wont scroll when you attempt to scroll it. It will follow your finger slightly, then bounce back to the top.
In reality what is happening is the listbox is the same size as all the content so it thinks you're at the bottom of the list.
The way to fix this is to manually set the size of the listbox to be the dimensions of the screen.
Something like Margin="0,0,0,0" width="480" height="800"
I'm struggling to understand how the xaml controls can help me accomplish the following layout:
I have a 3-column layout. The leftmost and center columns have listviews. The rightmost column simply has a clickable (tappable) stackpanel that navigates elsewhere. I want this stackpanel to be anchored to the right side of the page, halfway down (i.e. in CSS I would say right: 0, top: 50%).
My XAML is below. My strategy has been to create a horizontal parent stackpanel containing all 3 columns, and a vertical stackpanel with a textblock on top of a listview control in the leftmost and middle columns. However, the third stackpanel behaves in some unexpected ways:
It does not fill the horizontal space remaining to the right of the second stack panel. It seems to prefer to only take up the space required by whatever its child controls require. This means that I have to assign static values to child elements to try to line the clickable control up with the right side of the page. This means that when screen resolutions are different than what I'm designing for, this clickable control will be either off the right side of the page, or toward the middle of the page.
I can't coerce the clickable element in the third column (stackpanel, or any other control I try to use) to move halfway down the page. As I mentioned above, I want it to be halfway down the page, but it stubbornly sits at the top of its containing stackpanel.
I've looked at the canvas control, but don't want this to be static - this is so easy in CSS, I'm not sure why it's so complicated in XAML.
<!--
This grid acts as a root panel for the page that defines two rows:
* Row 0 contains the back button and page title
* Row 1 contains the rest of the page layout
-->
<Grid Style="{StaticResource LayoutRootStyle}">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="1160"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="206"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="140"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<!-- Back button and page title -->
<Grid Grid.ColumnSpan="2">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Button x:Name="backButton" Click="GoBack" IsEnabled="{Binding Frame.CanGoBack, ElementName=pageRoot}" Style="{StaticResource BackButtonStyle}"/>
<TextBlock x:Name="pageTitle" Grid.Column="1" Text="{StaticResource AppName}" Style="{StaticResource PageHeaderTextStyle}"/>
</Grid>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Grid.Row="1" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Grid.ColumnSpan="2">
<StackPanel
Orientation="Vertical"
Margin="0,0,40,0">
<StackPanel
Height="100"
Width="400"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
Margin="40,15,0,0">
<StackPanel.Background>
<SolidColorBrush>
<Color>#FFFFFF</Color>
</SolidColorBrush>
</StackPanel.Background>
<TextBlock
Text="Announcements"
FontSize="42"
FontWeight="Light"
TextAlignment="Left"
Padding="0,25,25,25">
</TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
<ListView
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
Height="475"
Margin="40,15,0,0"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
Width="400"
ItemsSource="{Binding Incidents}"
IsItemClickEnabled="True"
SelectionMode="None"
ItemTemplate="{StaticResource Standard130ItemTemplate}"
ItemClick="Item_Click" >
</ListView>
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel
Orientation="Vertical"
Margin="40,0,0,0">
<StackPanel
Height="100"
Width="600"
HorizontalAlignment="Right"
Margin="0,15,40,0">
<StackPanel.Background>
<SolidColorBrush>
<Color>#FFFFFF</Color>
</SolidColorBrush>
</StackPanel.Background>
<TextBlock
Text="News from Yammer"
FontSize="42"
FontWeight="Light"
TextAlignment="Left"
Padding="0,25,25,25">
</TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
<ListView
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
Height="475"
Margin="40,15,0,0"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
Width="Auto"
ItemsSource="{Binding Incidents}"
IsItemClickEnabled="True"
SelectionMode="None"
ItemTemplate="{StaticResource Standard130ItemTemplate}"
ItemClick="Item_Click" >
</ListView>
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel Background="AliceBlue" Width="206" Height="628">
<TextBlock x:Name="stackPanel" Background="Black" Height="50" Width="20" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="10,100,10,0" Opacity="0"/>
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
StackPanels only give enough space to their child elements as the need. I would recommend the following:
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<StackPanel Grid.Column="2" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<!-- Right most column -->
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
This was the stack panel stretches to fit the column.