I've got a Silverlight class library which contains ResourceDictionary objects with styles that I want to propagate throughout my Silverlight application. Let's call it the Theme Library. I want to use implicit styling in the Theme Library to style every control in the application.
This is simple to do for all the controls in the main application, just by adding the Theme Library ResourceDictionaries to the App.xaml's ResourceDictionary as MergedDictionaries.
The problem I have is that I have a ControlLibrary which defines DefaultStyleKey s for some controls. Unfortunately the styles in the ControlLibrary resort back to the default styling of any controls that they are composed of and I can't change this.
Can anyone solve this issue?
I've solved this issue. I had to add the Theme's ResourceDictionary as a merged dictionary on each ResourceDictionary in the ControlLibrary as well as in the main application.
In other words the Theme's ResourceDictionary was a root ResourceDictionary which is referenced by elements both in the ControlLibrary and the application.
Unfortunately default styling didn't propagate through ControlLibrary elements, so I had to manually wire up each of the controls I wanted styling in the ControlLibrary.
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The UWP XAML ItemsControl is the basis for many complicated XAML classes, like ListView and GridView.
The documentation Item containers and templates describes 2 key parts of these controls:
Data template
Control template
These parts combine to create the final view:
Container controls (such as ListViewItem and GridViewItem) consist of two important parts that combine to create the final visuals shown for an item: the data template and the control template.
In practice, developers specify the data template by specifying a DataTemplate in ListView.ItemTemplate (or GridView.), and they can customize the control template by providing a Style (TargetType="ListViewItem") to ListView.ItemContainerStyle.
Developers can also customize the ListView.ItemsPanel (which is an ItemsStackPanel by default), and the default Template for the ListView.ItemContainerStyle contains a ListViewItemPresenter. The documentation for Item containers and templates mentions these, too.
That raises the question:
When I add a ListView (or GridView or any ItemsControl) to my code, what am I actually adding? What can I customize? How is my data displayed?
As far as I can determine, the ListView looks something like:
ListView
Renders its Template which somehow renders:
ItemsPanel
Renders its ItemsPanelTemplate which is:
ItemsStackPanel
Renders, for each item:
ListViewItem
Renders its Template, which is:
ListViewItemPresenter
Somehow renders:
ListView.ItemTemplate
But this is unclear to me.
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.
you can customize anything in xaml
under the hood, both ListView and GridView can be created by ItemsControl, but their default template have some customization built-in already.
if you want to understand when to use which, here is a page:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/controls-and-patterns/lists
your data will be set to the ItemsSource if using binding, for example
<ListView
ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource itemsViewSource}}"
>...
or you can set directly.
from your question, it sounds like you may not have understood the basis, so maybe reading this series will help you:
http://drwpf.com/blog/itemscontrol-a-to-z/
it's for wpf, but the fundamental is the same, you can apply it to UWP as well.
We're evaluating an upgrade from ckeditor 4 to the new ckeditor 5, but I need to be able to extend the Image plugin/package with some custom elements, e.g. a text input for licensing information about the image, a button/checkbox for toggling the image to be a thumbnail or not etc.
How can I add these custom elements in the image package and write my own javascript code to handle the values from these elements?
The image toolbar is being controlled by the config.image.toolbar property. It accepts names of UI components registered in the editor.ui.components factory. In other words, it works like the main editor toolbar which is configurable via editor.toolbar and you can learn more how to create buttons here: Creating a simple plugin.
I want to know, Is there any way to change the Style sheets of the extension library DOJO Tab container control?
Thanks & regards,
Yogesh Kashid
The best way to change the Style sheets of the extension library DOJO Tab container control is to create and use an own css resource. This way you can change every single table part's look and it would be valid for all DOJO Tab container controls in your application.
Create under Resources\Style Sheet a my.css file
Add the Style changes for DOJO Tab classes in my.css file. The style classes start with "dijitTab..." and you can find them analyzing the rendered page in browser.
For changing the tab labels to red you would write e.g.
.dijitTabContainerTopNone {
color: red;
}
3 . Add the my.css class to your theme
<theme extends="oneuiv2.1">
<resource>
<content-type>text/css</content-type>
<href>my.css</href>
</resource>
</theme>
I have generated a cool css using CSS3 generator and took its CSS style file which looks something like this. pasted a short version though the css is long...
ul#css3menu,ul#css3menu ul{
margin:0;list-style:none;background-color:#C0C0C0;background-image:url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAABsCAYAAACrf9gNAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAAZiS0dEAP8A/wD/oL2nkwAAAAlwSFlzAAALEwAACxMBAJqcGAAAAAd0SU1FB9oFEgYCO8oxcpkAAABlSURBVCjPjZA7CoBADETfTnIB739GGysLIRaCsiGRbYYJ+fAyAJsACRgCrHN6XSU+j3jR8N8N68okwyLiEHC9cn6OiHAmcOvQVJC2zNULLX3KTwL2uWwjVnfZFz9aiDiFk1geyBuO2g6m9q0GQQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==");background-repeat:repeat;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:#999999;-moz-border-radius:4px;-webkit-border-radius:4px;border-radius:4px;}
now i want to know how to incorporate this with ASP:Menu control which uses "s4-tn" class and have entirely different set of CSS...and I am using sitemap also as datasource. Can I just drop this css and reference it somewhere in asp:menu control of sharepoint and convert the menu style like css3?
thanks
To use a different CSS classname for the menu, you'll need to edit your masterpage and modify the menu control properties. Here's the control you're looking for:
<SharePoint:AspMenu ID="TopNavigationMenuV4" CssClass="css3menu"...
More info on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms476607.aspx
in the control do not forget to register after the master page to override the rules
<SharePoint:CssRegistration name="custom.css" After="corev4.css"
As the question suggests I'm simply looking for a XAML tag list reference. I've banged the obvious queries in Google/SO but not found what I am looking for yet. Any useful links welcome.
There's a WPF Binding Cheatsheet and another XAML for WPF Cheatsheet which might help, but really the "tags" in XAML are just the properties of the classes.
There isn't such a thing as a xaml tag list.
XAML is just a declarative way to instantiate .Net classes. Class names are elements in XAML and properties on the class are attributes or attribute elements using dot notation.
Tags in XAML only mirror the types in one or more assemblies that are bound to a particular XAML namespace.
There are however a specific set of elements that are specific to XAML in itself and are not related to any particular .Net assembly, those are usually in the x: namespace, more info here: XAML Namespace (x:).
There is no such thing as the XAML tag list since XAML is an open system.
There are, however, standard vocabularies. Rob Relyea's Blog is a good place to keep track of the standardization around these vocabluaries. For example, this is an entry for the Silverlight XAML vocabulary.
With WPF the XAML elements map to the classes like StackPanel. MSDN seems to give XAML examples for many of the controls.
There are XAML-specific conventions about representing things like complex properties and bindings. However, there is no definitive list of XAML tags. XAML tags are actually mapped to WPF objects. For example, <Button> is just a XAML representation of the System.Windows.Controls.Button class and the attributes allowed on the <Button> tag are the public properties of the Button class.
There should be several WPF cheatsheets available soon on http://www.devsheets.com (since around September 2011) ... You can download it there, and also buy printed versions with more detailed information on them (not all content fits in publicly available pdf, because pdf would not be readable if printed on paper without high quality print ... that is why we also decided to sell high quality laminated cheatsheet prints in addition to their free versions)