Some WPF controls (like the Button
) seem to happily consume all the available space in its' container if you don't specify the height it is to have.
And some, like the ones I need to use right now, the (multiline) TextBox
and the ListBox
seem more worried about just taking the space necessary to fit their contents, and no more.
If you put these guys in a cell in a UniformGrid
, they will expand to fit the available space. However, UniformGrid
instances are not right for all situations. What if you have a grid with some rows set to a * height to divide the height between itself and other * rows? What if you have a StackPanel
and you have a Label
, a List
and a Button
, how can you get the list to take up all the space not eaten by the label and the button?
I would think this would really be a basic layout requirement, but I can't figure out how to get them to fill the space that they could (putting them in a DockPanel
and setting it to fill also doesn't work, it seems, since the DockPanel
only takes up the space needed by its' subcontrols).
A resizable GUI would be quite horrible if you had to play with Height
, Width
, MinHeight
, MinWidth
etc.
Can you bind your Height
and Width
properties to the grid cell you occupy? Or is there another way to do this?
This different behavior occurs because StackPanel measures in the direction of stacking at Double. PositiveInfinity; however, DockPanel measures only the available size. The following example demonstrates this key difference between DockPanel and StackPanel.
Content Control is a base class that provides standardised functionality to WPF Controls. The Content Control class represents controls that can include a single item of content. This content is commonly plain text or a child control. Content Control is a subclass of the Control class in WPF.
XAML language is treated as XML, it ignores all white spaces. Therefore, if you need to add a value that contains white spaces at the end of it for some reason, it would be ignored. In order to overcome this problem you can use thexml:space=”preserve” in your element declaration.
There are also some properties you can set to force a control to fill its available space when it would otherwise not do so. For example, you can say:
HorizontalContentAlignment="Stretch"
... to force the contents of a control to stretch horizontally. Or you can say:
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
... to force the control itself to stretch horizontally to fill its parent.
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