I am new to Windows Phone development. I created a grid and added a button to one of the columns, the button does not fill the entire grid column. I am not even able to drag and resize the button control.
This is the code. The button appears at the center of column 0 and is cropped since it tries to fill into column2 as well. The same code seems to work fine in a 8.0 project I downloaded. Can anyone tell me how I can make the button fill the entire column and not spill into the second grid.
Updated code
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
<RowDefinition/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition/>
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
<ColumnDefinition />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Button HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0">Text</Button>
<Button HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1">Text</Button>
<Button HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="2">Text</Button>
<Button HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="3">Text</Button>
</Grid>
Try adding this to your Button.
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
In WP8.1, its default value is Left.
Update
The cut-off issue is because there's a default MinWidth (109) set to the default Button style.
Try removing it by doing this.
MinWidth="0"
Related
I know that We can use a view box to simulate a line in xaml
<BoxView
VerticalOptions="Fill"
HorizontalOptions="Center"
WidthRequest="1"
Color="Black"/>
That would create a vertical line, however I want to create something like:
I wonder if a grid would be enough to create something like that
How to use a viewbox to draw the vertical line from bottom to top until middle, and then use other view box to middle to right
I was thinking on using a stacklayout instead of a grid and then use
StackOrientation.Vertical and LayoutOptions.Center but I don´t know exactly how to proceed.
What would be the best or easiest way to do it?
I have created something similar that you are looking for:
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Border Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Grid.RowSpan="2" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="4">
</Border>
<Border Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="2" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="4">
</Border>
</Grid>
PS: Just make sure that the controls inside the first border do not cross the first column of the second row inside the grid as the second border is overlapping the first one.
I've been looking on Google and all over the place for the answer on this, but I'm coming up empty.
I'm trying to make a few windows on my Windows universal app software. I want it to be able to resize itself as the user makes the window bigger or smaller. I can't find anywhere on the properties where it says anchor, and I'm not finding any help with the auto complete with the .xaml.
Any help on this will be welcome
UPDATE for – Justin XL or anyone that can answer
Below is a image of what I'm seeing. I'm trying to get all 4 blocks to take equal space at any given time. Obviously that isn't what I'm getting.
Anyways, I hope you can take a quick look at the code below the picture to tell me what I'm doing wrong.
The code below is what I'm using. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong since this is my first Windows app.
<Grid Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid Background="Gainsboro" Grid.Column="1" Width="Auto" Height="Auto">
<Button x:Name="Click_Me" Grid.Column="1" Content="Click Me" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Click="Click_Me_Click" Width="107" /></Grid>
<Grid Background="Gainsboro" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" Width="Auto" Height="Auto">
<TextBlock x:Name="textBlock" HorizontalAlignment="Center" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="TextBlock" VerticalAlignment="Center" Grid.Row='1'/></Grid>
<Rectangle Fill="Gainsboro" Width="8" Margin="622,0,10,0" VerticalAlignment="Stretch"/>
<Grid Grid.Column="0">
<WebView Name="Video" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Width="Auto" Height="Auto" Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0" />
</Grid>
First, you should remove HorizontalAlignment="Left" on your MySplitView to make the content fill the entire page.
Also, I would change your hard-coded Margin on the Rectangle to -
<Rectangle Fill="Gainsboro" Width="8" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,0,-4,0" />
Note the -4px(right margin) here. It's because the Rectangle itself is 8px wide and aligned on the edge of the first cell in the Grid, so I shifted it to the right by 4px to make it absolutely sit in the middle of the page.
Hope this helps!
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.
In my windows 8 application i have a advertisement in right side of window. When i choose the about page from my charm bar settings pane, the ad sdk control remain in top of the about page.. looks like below...
MainPage.xaml,
<Grid Background="{StaticResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">
<ads:AdControl Width="160" Height="600" IsEnabled="False" HorizontalAlignment="Right" AdUnitId="10043134" ApplicationId="d25517cb-12d4-4699-8bdc-52040c712cab"></ads:AdControl>
</Grid>
About.xaml(User Control),
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="100"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid Background="#000000">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Button x:Name="butAboutus" IsEnabled="{Binding Frame.CanGoBack, ElementName=pageRoot}" Style="{StaticResource SnappedBackButtonStyle}" />
<TextBlock x:Name="pageTitle" Grid.Column="1" Foreground="White" Text="About" Style="{StaticResource PageHeaderTextStyle}" FontSize="30" Margin="0,0,27,39"/>
</Grid>
<Grid Grid.Row="1" Background="White">
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" Margin="20,20,0,0">
<TextBlock Text="Sample about" FontSize="15" Foreground="Black" TextWrapping="Wrap" Margin="0,0,0,15"/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</Grid>
what am i doing wrong? how can i solve this problem...?
Thanks in advance.
You will have to hide the ad control when you want to display something on top of it. The ad control uses the WebBrowser, which has the (annoying) property of always being on top.
As Wilbur suggested the adcontrol currently uses webview (browser control) and would always appear on top, therefore you'd need to toggle it's visiblity before showing the flyout or popup control. The other nuisance of this control is that it will also take away the focus from the app whenever the ads are refreshed (you might want to set IsEnabled property to false to fix that).
Personally in my view webview and adcontrol are the two controls that needs to be re-written :(
I want to display two columns in my Grid. The first is a textblock that is sometimes longer than the row meant to hold it. The second is a button. Is there a way to give the textblock as much room as possible while still leaving room for the button to go immediately after?
When I use the following code, the textblock will sometimes push the button outside the viewable area of the grid.
<Grid >
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock Grid.Column="0" Text="{Binding Description}" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" />
<Button Margin="4,0" Height="0" Width="16" Grid.Column="1" MinWidth="20" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
</Grid>
I've tried setting the first column definition Width="*", but then the button is always at the very end of the row, when I want it next to the text. Any suggestions?
This is in Silverlight 4.
Thanks.
EDIT
I want the grid to resize as the user changes the window size, so setting a hard limit on the grid size is no good. That being said, I was able to manually set the MaxWidth in the code behind when the TextBlock loads and when the window changes size. It's clunky, but it works.
Following will surely work..
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White" Width="250">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBlock x:Name="textBlock" Grid.Column="0" Text="Text Box" VerticalAlignment="Top"/>
<Button x:Name="button" Grid.Column="1" Content="Button" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="60"/>
</Grid>
Add Following Line to xaml.cs file in constructor..
public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
textBlock.MaxWidth = LayoutRoot.Width - button.Width;
}
Let me know if there is any issue with it.
Thanks..