I am trying to change the highlighted(selected) color and the highlighted text color of a wpf listbox at runtime. I have tried creating a style and applying it as follows:
Style s = new Style(typeof(ListBox));
s.Resources.Add(SystemColors.HighlightBrushKey, Setting.ListSelectedColor);
s.Resources.Add(SystemColors.HighlightTextBrushKey, Setting.ListSelectedTextColor);
lstGames.Style = s;
But this seems to do nothing. Is there any way to achieve this?
EDIT:
Per suggestions, I tried using DynamicResources to achieve this, but so far this has not been successful either. My code for this:
DYNAMICRESOURCES
<UserControl.Resources>
<Color x:Key="ListTextSelectedColor"/>
<Color x:Key="ListSelectedColor"/>
</UserControl.Resources>
LISTBOX
<ListBox ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Hidden" ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Hidden"
Name="lstGames" Margin="20" Grid.Row="2" Grid.Column="2"
SelectionChanged="lstGames_SelectionChanged" Grid.RowSpan="2" Grid.ColumnSpan="2"
Background="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="{x:Null}" SelectionMode="Single"
FontSize="18" FontFamily="OCR A Extended">
<Style TargetType="ListBox">
<Style.Resources>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.HighlightBrushKey}" Color="{DynamicResource ListSelectedColor}"/>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.ControlBrushKey}" Color="{DynamicResource ListSelectedColor}"/>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.HighlightTextBrushKey}" Color="{DynamicResource ListTextSelectedColor}"/>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static SystemColors.ControlTextBrushKey}" Color="{DynamicResource ListTextSelectedColor}"/>
</Style.Resources>
</Style>
</ListBox>
APPLYING RESOURCES IN C#
this.Resources["ListSelectedColor"] = SETING.ListSelectedColor.Color;
this.Resources["ListTextSelectedColor"] = SETTING.ListSelectedTextColor.Color;
Solution:
<Window x:Class="ListBoxStyle.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:src="clr-namespace:ListBoxStyle"
Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
<Window.Resources>
<Style x:Key="_ListBoxItemStyle" TargetType="ListBoxItem">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="ListBoxItem">
<Border Name="_Border"
Padding="2"
SnapsToDevicePixels="true">
<ContentPresenter />
</Border>
<ControlTemplate.Triggers>
<Trigger Property="IsSelected" Value="true">
<Setter TargetName="_Border" Property="Background" Value="Yellow"/>
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="Red"/>
</Trigger>
</ControlTemplate.Triggers>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</Window.Resources>
<Grid>
<ListBox ItemContainerStyle="{DynamicResource _ListBoxItemStyle}"
Width="200" Height="250"
ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"
ScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
<ListBoxItem>Hello</ListBoxItem>
<ListBoxItem>Hi</ListBoxItem>
</ListBox>
</Grid>
</Window>
Thanks to Vinkal and failedprogramming, I got everything working beautifully. I created the following Resources:
<UserControl.Resources>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="ListTextSelectedColor" x:Shared="False"/>
<SolidColorBrush x:Key="ListSelectedColor" x:Shared="False"/>
<Style x:Key="_ListBoxItemStyle" TargetType="ListBoxItem">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="ListBoxItem">
<Border Name="_Border"
Padding="2"
SnapsToDevicePixels="true">
<ContentPresenter />
</Border>
<ControlTemplate.Triggers>
<Trigger Property="IsSelected" Value="true">
<Setter TargetName="_Border" Property="Background" Value="{DynamicResource ResourceKey=ListSelectedColor}"/>
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="{DynamicResource ResourceKey=ListTextSelectedColor}"/>
</Trigger>
</ControlTemplate.Triggers>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</UserControl.Resources>
And then applied the style to my listbox with:
ItemContainerStyle="{DynamicResource ResourceKey=_ListBoxItemStyle}"
And finally, change the solidcolorbrush resources (therefore changing the setter values) in my C# code by doing the following:
this.Resources["ListSelectedColor"] = EmulatorPage.ListSelectedColor;
this.Resources["ListTextSelectedColor"] = EmulatorPage.ListSelectedTextColor;
Thank you to both of you!
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