How to reset grid row height after using splitter?

Question

With the following XAML the bottom row hides when you uncheck the checkbox. Everything is well until you resize it with the gridsplitter. Then checking/unchecking the checkbox doesn't do anything. Given that the converter sets the Height to 0 I expected the row to hide. What's going on? How can I reset the heights after moving the splitter?

<Grid>
    <Grid.Resources>
        <m:CheckedToLengthConverter x:Key="checkedToLengthConverter" />
    </Grid.Resources>
    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <RowDefinition Height="3*" />
        <RowDefinition Height="{Binding Mode=OneWay, ElementName=ShowBottomCheckBox, Path=IsChecked, Converter={StaticResource checkedToLengthConverter}, ConverterParameter=2}" />
    </Grid.RowDefinitions>
    <Border Background="Blue" />
    <CheckBox Name="ShowBottomCheckBox" IsChecked="True" />
    <GridSplitter HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Height="5" />
    <Border Background="Red" Grid.Row="1" />
</Grid>

Converter:

public class CheckedToLengthConverter: IValueConverter
{
    public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
    {
        if ((bool)value)
            return new GridLength(int.Parse(parameter.ToString()), GridUnitType.Star);

        return new GridLength(0, GridUnitType.Pixel);
    }

    public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

Answer 1

The problem is that once you move the splitter the first row will have an explicit width, so setting the last row back to * won't have any effect. After some experimentation I came up with the code below. Note that you need to specify a TwoWay binding or it won't work.

public class CheckedToLengthConverter : MarkupExtension, IValueConverter
{
    public GridLength TrueValue { get; set; }
    public GridLength FalseValue { get; set; }

    public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        return System.Convert.ToBoolean(value) ? TrueValue : FalseValue;
    }

    public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        return Binding.DoNothing;
    }

    #region Overrides of MarkupExtension

    public override object ProvideValue(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
    {
        return this;
    }

    #endregion
}

<Grid>
    <Grid.Resources>
        <m:CheckedToLengthConverter TrueValue="2*" FalseValue="*" x:Key="c1" />
        <m:CheckedToLengthConverter TrueValue="3*" FalseValue="0" x:Key="c2" />
    </Grid.Resources>

    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <RowDefinition Height="{Binding Mode=TwoWay, Path=IsChecked, 
                       ElementName=ShowBottomCheckBox, 
                       Converter={StaticResource c1}}"/>
        <RowDefinition Height="auto"/>
        <RowDefinition Height="{Binding Mode=TwoWay, Path=IsChecked, 
                       ElementName=ShowBottomCheckBox, 
                       Converter={StaticResource c2}}"/>
    </Grid.RowDefinitions>
    <Border Background="Blue" />
    <CheckBox Name="ShowBottomCheckBox" IsChecked="True" />
    <GridSplitter HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" 
                  Grid.Row="1" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Height="5" 
                  ResizeBehavior="PreviousAndNext" />
    <Border Background="Red" Grid.Row="2" />
</Grid>