I'm trying to put a status bar on the bottom of my window that uses the same color scheme as the title bar. I know the piece I'm missing is style inheritance and/or template setting, but I've been reading for hours and I can't figure it out.
Here's how my window currently looks:
Here's how it looks in the designer:
What I want:
A status bar at the bottom of the window that mirrors the style of the titlebar. I recognize that my current implementation is probably less than great, so I'm also open to changing my statusbar defintiion as seen below. I tried to use an actual statusbar, but it wouldn't behave the way I wanted (the textboxes wouldn't fill the empty space, so the command line input textbox was very hard to click - maybe I was just doing something wrong). I'm assuming I can also apply the style to a rectangle just like anything else, right? I'm missing a critical component with the style property and probably the user of a template or a staticresource, but I'm totally lost.
Here's my current solution (a label and two textboxes for status updates and a cmdline):
<Grid Grid.Row="1">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.5*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="0.5*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Label Grid.Column="0"/>
<Grid Grid.Column="1">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<TextBox Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="0"/>
<TextBox Grid.Row="0" Grid.Column="1"/>
</Grid>
</Grid>
I solved this by using the AccentColorBrush
resource in my status bar grid.
<Grid Grid.Row="1" Background="{DynamicResource AccentColorBrush}">
I found it by inspecting many XAML files in MahApps.Metro on GitHub. This may seem obvious to some people, but for someone who is trying to learn XAML/WPF/MVVM, this wasn't straight forward. I hope this helps someone as I struggled with it for quite a while.
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