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Silverlight Clipping Fun

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Silverlight's support for clipping is definitely inferior.

While Silverlight animation performance may be better than WPF, its support for clipping is definitely inferior.

First off, there are no ClipToBounds property. If you want your canvas to clip its content, you need some extra code.

Then, it turns out that a TextBlock inside a canvas won’t clip itself. Basically, the “Width” property is ignored: the text will take as much space as it sees fit. You can, however, tame a TextBlock by placing it inside a Border. This also gives a benefit of vertical alignment, that bare TextBlock cannot do.

Sample

Screenshot

The sample is generated by this code:

XML
<Border Width="300" Height="300" 
BorderBrush="Blue" BorderThickness="1">
    <Canvas>
        <Border Width="50" BorderBrush="Black" 
        BorderThickness="1" Canvas.Left="30" Canvas.Top="30">
            <TextBlock Text="This TextBLock is 50 pixels wide" />
        </Border>

        <Border Width="300" Height="100" 
        BorderBrush="Brown" BorderThickness="1" 
         Canvas.Left="30" Canvas.Top="80">
            <TextBlock Text="Centered text" 
            HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
        </Border>
        
        <TextBlock Width="10" 
        Text="This TextBlock is 10 pixels wide" Canvas.Left="150" 
         Canvas.Top="250" />
    </Canvas>
</Border>
This article was originally posted at http://www.ikriv.com/blog?p=1048

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This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Apache License, Version 2.0


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Technical Lead Thomson Reuters
United States United States
Ivan is a hands-on software architect/technical lead working for Thomson Reuters in the New York City area. At present I am mostly building complex multi-threaded WPF application for the financial sector, but I am also interested in cloud computing, web development, mobile development, etc.

Please visit my web site: www.ikriv.com.

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