I have a canvas and a red rectangle laid on it.
Rectangle
has a MouseDown
event handler implemented:
private void RedRectangle_MouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
CreateMyBorder();
}
The CreateMyBorder
method is supposed to create a Border
UIElement with the same size and position as the rectangle on canvas, i.e. it is supposed to cover the red rectangle.
Copying the Width
and Height
properties of the red rectangle and setting them for the Border
element is easy:
myBorder.Height = RedRectangle.Height;
myBorder.Width = RedRectangle.Width;
However, copying the position of the red rectangle on canvas seems impossible to me after 2 hours of trial and error! The expected:
double x = RedRectangle.GetValue(Canvas.Left);
double y = RedRectangle.GetValue(Canvas.Top);
myBorder.SetValue(Canvas.Left, x);
myBorder.SetValue(Canvas.Top, y);
doesn't work as the x
and y
variable values are NaN
. Why?
Please help, I cannot believe that something as trivial as getting and setting the UIElement
's position on a panel can be so irritating. Thanks.
You can use the static functions on Canvas
:
Canvas.SetLeft(element, x);
Canvas.SetTop(element, y);
Beware, Canvas
never display elements with Left
or Top
equal to double.NaN
, which is the default value for Left
and Top
.
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