how to make listbox is resizable inside its parent? - xaml

In a user control, I put a listbox which is bound to a dynamic datasource. This usercontrol will be in a popup window. I want to this list box can fill the rest of space of the window. Here is the Xaml I tried:
<ComboBox x:Name="cmbx1" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row ="0" Margin="5"
Width="150" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Left" SelectionChanged="filters_SelectionChanged">
......
</ComboBox>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0">
<Button Content="Test" Margin="5" Click="Button_Add" />
</StackPanel>
<DataGrid x:Name="ListGrid" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2"
......
</DataGrid>
<ComboBox x:Name="cmb2" Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Margin="5">
......
</ComboBox>
<ListBox x:Name="lstSharing" Grid.Row="3" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Margin="0,0,10,0"
Width="{Binding Width, ElementName=ListGrid}">
<ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<tkit:WrapPanel Orientation="Horizontal" MaxWidth="650" />
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="3" Width="Auto">
<CheckBox IsChecked="{Binding IsChecked, Mode=TwoWay}" />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding ItemName}" Width="120" />
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
What I want it height and width of list box can be setup dynamically based on windows size, the items bound to list box. But it is not working properly. Initially, the listbox has no scrollbar, I need to resize window manually so that scrollbar on display. I can not dynamically to change with, so I put MaxWidth =600. Otherwise, it always display all item in one row.
How to resolve this problem?

This is untested, but I would try something like this:
<ListBox x:Name="lstSharing"
Grid.Row="3"
Grid.Column="0"
Grid.ColumnSpan="2"
Margin="0,0,10,0"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<tkit:WrapPanel Orientation="Horizontal"
MaxWidth="{Binding ElementName=lstSharing, Path=ActualWidth}" />
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
It's a little difficult to know whether this will work without seeing the parent containers, but it should point you in the right direction.

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XAML parsing/layout rendering time very high

I've got the problem, that I create an App, that will run on Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile. This App is a non-UWP Windows Store App.
The problem I have is, that I have a list of a custom control that one has another List, that is not expanded (=collapsed). That looks like this:
The red rectangles are the ContentPresenter items of the first ItemControl and the green rectangles are the ContentPresenter items of the ItemControl in the first lists items, that is not visible on startup. It will be visible after the click on the expand-button. Both ItemControls have a DataTemplate configured to present what you see in the screenshot. (XAML code below)
The main problem I have is, that if I change the Pivot to the Pivot you see at the screenshot above, there is a freeze of the app for several seconds. It depends on the device how long this freeze is. In the W10M-Emulator on my PC I don't recognize a freeze but on a Lumia 620 with WP8.1 I have a freeze of 8.5 seconds.
In the profiler of Visual Studio it looks like this (I selected the range that is the problem I am talking about):
What I am wondering about is the large orange line with "Layout". If I expand it to the "big players", there is 60-70ms for each not visible item in the profiler.
I am asking myself why this is the case, even if the items are not visible and are in the VirtualizingStackPanel. The Number of Items of the ItemSourcein this example is 3 for the first ItemControl (red boxes) and 17, 59 and 1 for the second ItemControls that are only visible of the first item is expanded.
What I am also wondering about is, that regarding the timeline, all of the Items are processed at the same time because their baseline is for all items the same. But if I scroll down the profiler timeline details, I see another Event called "Parsing" for each item. That one is not processed in parallel for each item but serial. And the parsing of the last item fits to the end of the layout-event. This parsing events look like this:
What is the reason why the parsing takes so long time? I don't think that the controls are very complex etc. and there are no code behind procedures except some string formattings.
Finally here is the XAML code:
My PivotItem on the "MainPage" of the App:
<PivotItem
Header="Echtzeit"
Margin="10,-20,10,0"
>
<Grid>
<ScrollViewer
VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible"
>
<ItemsControl
ItemsSource="{Binding RealtimeDepartures, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay}"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
Margin="0"
>
<ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<VirtualizingStackPanel />
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<controls:RealtimeStation
StationName="{Binding StationName, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay}"
Departures="{Binding DepartureList, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay}"
FontSize="{Binding DataContext.ClientFontSize, ElementName=MainPg, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay}"
/>
</DataTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>
</ScrollViewer>
</Grid>
</PivotItem>
The RealtimeStation Control XAML:
<UserControl
...
>
<UserControl.Resources>
<dec:BoolToVisibilityConverter x:Key="BoolToVisibilityConv"/>
</UserControl.Resources>
<Grid>
<AppBarButton
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
Grid.Column="0"
Name="btnExpand"
Icon="{Binding ExpandButtonIcon, ElementName=main, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay}"
Click="btnExpand_Click"
IsEnabled="{Binding IsExpandButtonEnabled, ElementName=main, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay}"
IsCompact="True"
Margin="0,-8,-2,-4"
/>
<StackPanel
Orientation="Vertical"
Margin="48,12,0,0"
>
<TextBlock
Text="{Binding StationName, ElementName=main, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay}"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
FontSize="24"
/>
<TextBlock
Text="Derzeit stehen keine Abfahrten an"
FontStyle="Italic"
Visibility="{Binding ShowNoDepartures, ElementName=main, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay}"
FontSize="{Binding FontSize, ElementName=main, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay}"
/>
<TextBlock
Text="Zugausfälle vorhanden!"
Foreground="Red"
FontWeight="Bold"
Visibility="{Binding ShowTrainCanceled, ElementName=main, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay}"
FontSize="{Binding FontSize, ElementName=main, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay}"
/>
<ItemsControl
ItemsSource="{Binding DepartureList, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay}"
ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible"
ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled"
Margin="-48,0,0,0"
Visibility="{Binding IsExpanded, ElementName=main, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay, Converter={StaticResource BoolToVisibilityConv}}"
>
<ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<VirtualizingStackPanel />
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<ContentPresenter>
<controls:RealtimeDeparture
DepartureDetails="{Binding}"
FontSize="{Binding FontSize, ElementName=main, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay}"
/>
</ContentPresenter>
</DataTemplate>
</ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</UserControl>
And finally the RealtimeDeparture Control:
<UserControl
...
>
<Grid>
<control:DisruptionIcon
Height="24"
Width="50"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
VerticalAlignment="Top"
Icon="{Binding TrainIcon, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay}"
Margin="3"
/>
<StackPanel
Orientation="Vertical"
Margin="56,9,0,0"
>
<StackPanel
Orientation="Horizontal"
Margin="3,0"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
>
<TextBlock
Text="{Binding DelayTimeText, ElementName=main, Mode=OneWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"
Foreground="{Binding DelayColor, ElementName=main, Mode=OneWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"
/>
<TextBlock
Text="{Binding DepartureDetailsText, ElementName=main, Mode=OneWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"
Margin="3,0"
/>
</StackPanel>
<TextBlock
Text="{Binding InformationText, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay, ElementName=main}"
Visibility="{Binding IsInformationVisible, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay, ElementName=main}"
Margin="3"
FontStyle="Italic"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
/>
<TextBlock
Text="Zug fällt aus!"
Foreground="Red"
FontWeight="Bold"
Visibility="{Binding IsCanceledVisible, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged, Mode=OneWay, ElementName=main}"
Margin="3"
/>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</UserControl>
Does anybody has an idea how to speed up this parsing? What is the reason why it is so slow? Do I have a design issue that is disabling the virtualization-functionality of the VirtualizedStackPanel? I already tried a lot but didn't find the reason why it is so slow.
I don't think virtualization is turned on.
Try setting the CanContentScroll property to true on your ScrollViewer:
<ScrollViewer
CanContentScroll="true"
VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible"
>
The other option can be using e.g. ListBox which supports virtualization on its own (as far as I know it is enough to set the ItemsPanelTemplate to VirtualizingStackPanel)

Vertical Scrollbar not visible in listbox inside popup-element

The vertical Scrollbar is visible in W 8.1 but not in WP 8.1 on my emulator.
What have i missed?
I have also tried to set VerticalScrollBarVisibility to Visible
<Popup x:Name="LayerPopupWindow" IsLightDismissEnabled="True" >
<ListBox x:Name="MyList" Margin="3" Width="auto" Background="#DDFFFFFF"
Height="{Binding Path=ActualHeight,ElementName=MyMapView}" ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollMode="Enabled">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Height="auto" >
<CheckBox IsChecked="{Binding IsVisible, Mode=TwoWay}" BorderBrush="Black" MinWidth="30"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding ID, Mode=OneWay}" VerticalAlignment="Center" >
<ToolTipService.ToolTip>
<StackPanel MaxWidth="400">
<TextBlock FontWeight="Bold" Text="{Binding CopyrightText}" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Description}" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
</StackPanel>
</ToolTipService.ToolTip>
</TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>
</Popup>
Looked at your links Depechie and tried it in my example, for some reason the scrollbars still wasnt visible.
Then i found this link
Making ScrollViewer's ScrollBar always visible through overriding or styling
Tried it and the scrollbars know were visible, so problem solved.

LongListSelector centered items unexpected position change

I have a LongListSelector control on a page in my Windows Phone 8 app. For this control I set a GroupHeaderTemplate and a ItemTemplate and both contain a TextBlock. If I align the TextBlock controls to center I have some weird behavior (maybe not weird but unexplainable to me at the moment). When I open the page on my phone the centered text moves ca. 5px to the right. The move is visible to the user (it's happening after the page is loaded). I tried to solve this problem but all margin changes (and other trials) did not change the behavior and my friend Google couldn't help me either. Can some explain to my why this is happening and how to solve this?
My code (simplified):
<Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="0">
<phone:LongListSelector x:Name="longList" LayoutMode="List" HideEmptyGroups ="true" Margin="5,0,5,5" ItemsSource="{Binding List, Mode=OneWay}" IsGroupingEnabled="True" Background="Transparent" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<phone:LongListSelector.Resources>
<DataTemplate x:Key="itemTemplate">
<Grid Margin="10,10,10,0" Background="#FFF3F1F1" HorizontalAlignment="Left">
<TextBlock x:Name="name" Margin="10" TextWrapping="NoWrap" Text="{Binding Name}" VerticalAlignment="Center" FontSize="40"/>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
<DataTemplate x:Key="groupHeaderTemplate">
<Grid Margin="10,10,10,0" Background="#FFF3F1F1" HorizontalAlignment="Center">
<TextBlock x:Name="name" Margin="10" TextWrapping="NoWrap" Text="test" VerticalAlignment="Center" FontSize="40"/>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</phone:LongListSelector.Resources>
<!--<phone:LongListSelector.JumpListStyle>
<StaticResource ResourceKey="jumpListStyle"/>
</phone:LongListSelector.JumpListStyle>-->
<phone:LongListSelector.GroupHeaderTemplate>
<StaticResource ResourceKey="groupHeaderTemplate"/>
</phone:LongListSelector.GroupHeaderTemplate>
<phone:LongListSelector.ItemTemplate>
<StaticResource ResourceKey="itemTemplate"/>
</phone:LongListSelector.ItemTemplate>
<i:Interaction.Triggers>
<i:EventTrigger EventName="SelectionChanged">
<i:InvokeCommandAction Command="{Binding SelectItemCommand}"
CommandParameter="{Binding SelectedItem, ElementName=longList}"/>
</i:EventTrigger>
</i:Interaction.Triggers>
</phone:LongListSelector>
</Grid>
Thanks in advance

ItemsGroups in my GridView don't wrap and are located out of the screen

I just implemented a GridView with groups feature. I have a list of TVshows's episodes which are grouped by diffusion date.
When I have more than 3 episodes by date, I want to have my items wrapped and go next to the group title, at this time, the next items are going outside of the screen, and it not what I wanted.
As you can see, there is other episodes under the dupplicated one for each day, I want them to go next to the others, not under.
Here is my XAML code, thanks :)
<GridView Margin="70,0,0,40" ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource cvsActivities}}">
<GridView.Template>
<ControlTemplate>
<ItemsPresenter />
</ControlTemplate>
</GridView.Template>
<GridView.ItemContainerTransitions>
<TransitionCollection>
<EntranceThemeTransition IsStaggeringEnabled="True" />
<RepositionThemeTransition />
<AddDeleteThemeTransition />
</TransitionCollection>
</GridView.ItemContainerTransitions>
<GridView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid>
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
<Grid Name="grid_image">
<Image Width="280" Height="200" VerticalAlignment="Center" Stretch="UniformToFill" Source="Assets/no_image.png" />
<Image Width="280" Height="200" VerticalAlignment="Center" Stretch="UniformToFill" Source="{Binding saison.serie.poster}" />
</Grid>
<Image Source="Assets/Ban-1hh.png" Width="280" Height="59" Margin="0,-19,0,0"/>
<Grid Margin="0,-40,0,0" Height="40">
<StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Left" Orientation="Vertical" VerticalAlignment="Center" Margin="0,-7,0,0">
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="5,0,0,0" Width="190" TextTrimming="WordEllipsis" Foreground="White" FontSize="20" Text="{Binding saison.serie.nom}" />
<TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="5,-5,0,0" Width="190" TextTrimming="WordEllipsis" Foreground="White" FontSize="13" Text="{Binding date}" />
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Orientation="Vertical" Margin="0,-5,5,0">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" FlowDirection="RightToLeft">
<TextBlock Foreground="#f0ec45" FontSize="14" Text="{Binding saison.number}" />
<TextBlock Foreground="#f0ec45" FontSize="14" Margin="5,0,0,0" Text="Saison " />
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" FlowDirection="RightToLeft" Margin="0,-5,0,0">
<TextBlock Foreground="#f0ec45" FontSize="14" Text="{Binding ep_number}" />
<TextBlock Foreground="#f0ec45" FontSize="14" Margin="5,0,0,0" Text="Episode " />
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</GridView.ItemTemplate>
<GridView.GroupStyle>
<GroupStyle>
<GroupStyle.HeaderTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid Background="LightGray" >
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Key, Converter={StaticResource StringFormatConverter}, ConverterParameter='{}{0:dddd dd MMM yy}'}" Foreground="Black" Margin="10"
Style="{StaticResource PageSubheaderTextStyle}" />
</Grid>
</DataTemplate>
</GroupStyle.HeaderTemplate>
</GroupStyle>
</GridView.GroupStyle>
</GridView>
Add a ItemsPanelTemplate (if you take a look at the default GridApp and the GroupedItemsPage.xaml, you'll see this is how they do it).
<GroupStyle.Panel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<VariableSizedWrapGrid Orientation="Vertical" Margin="0,0,80,0" />
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</GroupStyle.Panel>
If you want the 3rd element in a column to leak over the bottom, then you can set a negative bottom margin on the GridView itself.
You virtually erased the GridView control template, so no wonder it doesn't work. Remove the following part and things might get back to normal:
<GridView.Template>
<ControlTemplate>
<ItemsPresenter />
</ControlTemplate>
</GridView.Template>
If there is something you want changed in the default template - change that specific thing. The default template has a horizontal ScrollViewer which limits vertical space use by the WrapGrid that is used for its ItemsPanelTemplate and allows items to wrap to next column, while also allowing to scroll horizontally to see all items.

ComboBox in DataForm, SL4

I know that this question is what many of you already posted, but I'm still having a problem. The idea is very simple: I have a DataGrid and when I select the item in DataGrid, it should select item in ComboBox which is in DataForm. I have read many posts, and implemented few ideas in what I did, and now, I have this:
<StackPanel Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="4" Name="stackPanel1" Margin="0,0,0,-257">
<sdk:DataGrid Name="PhysicalQuantitiesGrid"
MinHeight="100" IsReadOnly="True"
Margin="0,12,0,0"
ItemsSource="{Binding PhysicalQuantities}"
SelectedItem="{Binding Path=CurrentPhysicalQuantity, Mode=TwoWay}"
AutoGenerateColumns="False" VerticalGridLinesBrush="{x:Null}">
<sdk:DataGrid.RowDetailsTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" Margin="5">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="5">
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" Margin="5">
<TextBlock
FontSize="12"
Width="Auto"
Text="Base unit term"/>
<TextBlock
Foreground="CadetBlue"
FontSize="12"
Width="Auto"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
Text="{Binding Path=Unit.Term}"/>
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" Margin="5">
<TextBlock
FontSize="12"
Width="Auto"
Text="Short term"/>
<TextBlock
Foreground="CadetBlue"
FontSize="12"
Width="Auto"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
Text="{Binding Path=Unit.ShortTerm}"/>
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</sdk:DataGrid.RowDetailsTemplate>
<sdk:DataGrid.Columns>
<sdk:DataGridTextColumn Header="Term"
Binding="{Binding Path=Term}"
FontSize="14"
Foreground="DarkBlue"
>
</sdk:DataGridTextColumn>
</sdk:DataGrid.Columns>
</sdk:DataGrid>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,12,0,0">
<Button x:Name="NewPhysicalQuantity" Content="AddNew" Height="23" Click="NewPhysicalQuantity_Click"/>
</StackPanel>
<dataform:DataForm x:Name="PhysicalQuantityDetails"
Header="Fizicke velicine - detalji"
AutoGenerateFields="False"
AutoEdit="False"
CommandButtonsVisibility="Commit,Cancel,Edit"
Margin="0,12,0,0"
CurrentItem="{Binding Path=CurrentPhysicalQuantity}"
CancelButtonContent="Cancel"
CommitButtonContent="Commit"
>
<dataform:DataForm.EditTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel>
<dataform:DataField Label="Physical Quantity term:">
<TextBox Text="{Binding Path=Term, Mode=TwoWay}" />
</dataform:DataField>
<dataform:DataField Label="Base unit">
<StackPanel>
<riaControls:DomainDataSource AutoLoad="True" Height="0" Name="baseUnitsDataSource" QueryName="GetBaseUnitsOrdered" Width="0">
<riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>
<myService:DomainDomainContext/>
</riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>
</riaControls:DomainDataSource>
<myControl:ComboBox
ItemsSource="{Binding ElementName=baseUnitsDataSource, Path=Data}"
SelectedValuePath="IDUnit"
DisplayMemberPath="Term"
SelectedValue="{Binding Path=IDUnit, Mode=TwoWay}"
>
<ComboBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<VirtualizingStackPanel />
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ComboBox.ItemsPanel>
</myControl:ComboBox>
</StackPanel>
</dataform:DataField>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</dataform:DataForm.EditTemplate>
</dataform:DataForm>
<StackPanel
Orientation="Horizontal"
HorizontalAlignment="Right"
Margin="0,12,0,0">
<Button
Content="Save"
x:Name="SaveChangesButton"
Width="100"
Height="23"
Margin="4,0,4,0"
Command="{Binding SaveCommand}" />
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
So, I use MVVM with RIA. For data grid I use MVVM, and for ComboBox data context I use RIA. That is the only way to fill the ComboBox and to bind DataGrid value with ComboBox value, but in the wrong way! When I click Edit in data form, I always get ComboBox initialized to the first item. Of course, value in data grid get the same value (wrong!).
What I am doing wrong?
Thanks!
P.S. I forgot to mention that I have two tables, PhysicalQuantity and Unit, where PhysicalQuantity has one or zero Units (BaseUnit).
Lucky
You're using the wrong ComboBox.
Kyle McClellan has a far more capable ComboBox, which honestly should have been rolled out with the toolkit 2 times over by now, but there seems to be something going fishy with toolkit support as well. Please read more about it here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kylemc/archive/2010/06/18/combobox-sample-for-ria-services.aspx