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TreeView With Arbitrary Number of Child Items

5-Mar-09 15:27

You can override the TreeViewItem template ?

<Style TargetType="TreeViewItem">
    <Setter Property="Template">
        <Setter.Value>

            <ControlTemplate TargetType="TreeViewItem">
                <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
                    <TextBox></Button>
                    <Button>X</Button>               
               </StackPanel>
            </ControlTemplate>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>

Steve The Plant5-Mar-09 10:59

Steve The Plant

5-Mar-09 10:59

Hi there,

I'm new to WPF, so bear with me.

I'm trying to make something like a class browser. I have a tree of objects, but each child in the tree is based on whether the object has variables of a certain type.

For example, say I have an Entity class for my game engine. I can have any number of variables in the class, or any derived classes, but I'm only interested in all the variables of type Vector. So for a hypothetical scene, I'd like to show a tree like:

scene
entity 1
vector worldposition
entity 2
vector worldposition
vector lookat
vector orientation

(I hope that was clear enough)

[Edit]

An additional challenge is if an entity has a variable of type Entity. So another hypothetical scene might look like:

entity 1
vector worldposition
entity 2
vector worldposition
vector lookat
vector orientation
entity 3
vector worldposition
entity child
vector worldposition
vector lookat

The scene could theoretically keep going like this, covering every child entity.

What's the best way to display this in a TreeView?

Thanks!

Re: TreeView With Arbitrary Number of Child Items

ABitSmart5-Mar-09 16:19

Using an xbap as a component on an aspx page

5-Mar-09 16:19

If you provide a DataTemplate for each of the types, it should pick it up automatically. Check this post[^] from Mark. It should give you an idea.

Ray Cassick5-Mar-09 10:51

Ray Cassick

5-Mar-09 10:51

I am interested in writing a few Silverlight components to put on an aspx page, using them kind of like web parts. They would need to be able to fire events and take properties though.

Has anyone else out there done this?

LinkedIn[^] | Blog[^] | Twitter[^]

Re: Using an xbap as a component on an aspx page

johnsontroye12-Mar-09 14:03

johnsontroye

12-Mar-09 14:03

You can check out my post at http://www.anothercodesite.com/Blog/post/2008/12/31/Configurable-Silverlight-Image-Rotator.aspx[^] it may be of some help for you.

Troy Johnson
www.anothercodesite.com/blog

Re: Using an xbap as a component on an aspx page

Ray Cassick12-Mar-09 16:36

Ray Cassick

12-Mar-09 16:36

Thanks. I will check it out.

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WPF Bind code behind to element property

nikotromus115-Mar-09 9:28

nikotromus11

5-Mar-09 9:28

Hello,

I am trying to bind a variable in the code behind to the visibility property of an element. Here is what I have:

xaml:
<groupbox visibility="{Binding CarrierPreviewVisibility}" grid.row="1" header="Carriers">

code behind:
//Property
private System.Windows.UIElement carrierPreviewVisibility;
public System.Windows.UIElement CarrierPreviewVisibility
{
get
{
return carrierPreviewVisibility;
}
set
{
carrierPreviewVisibility = value;
NotifyPropertyChanged("CarrierPreviewVisibility");
}
}

/* code in constructor. THE BELOW CODE IS WRONG. The error is "Cannot implicity convert string to System.Windows.UIElement. */

this.CarrierPreviewVisibility = "Hidden"

Am I totally off base here? Does anyone know how to do this?

Any ideas

Re: WPF Bind code behind to element property

ABitSmart5-Mar-09 15:00

Silverlight plugin becomes unresponsive when javascript alert popups in Chrome

5-Mar-09 15:00

nikotromus11 wrote:
"Cannot implicity convert string to System.Windows.UIElement. *

You cannot assign a type string to an object of type UIElement. What are you trying to do ?

I would suggest you change your property to have a type System.Windows.Visibility[^]. If you are confused in the way we set visibility in XAML, like in XAML we specify a string then, I would point out that XAML automatically does a conversion of the string value to the specified type. But, if you do it in code, you would require to handle it on your own.

aatijare5-Mar-09 3:57

aatijare

5-Mar-09 3:57

When page loads with silverlight plugin control, and clicked on silverlight object, it opens javscript alert popup.
This works fine in IE, FireFox and Safari also.
But in Chrome, it causes to make silverlight plugin unresponsive.

What could be the possible workaround for this..
I am using silverlight 2 and chrome 0.2.149.27
Any help/clue is welcome.

WPF Combobox databinding

babongita5-Mar-09 3:37

5-Mar-09 3:37

I have a combobox which loads and displays exactly how I want it to, it is in a view and I am able to retrieve the pieces from this view without any problem. The problem I have is when I throw the object back at the view the combobox(which is bound to a collection of objects) the combobox doesn't show the information. What am I missing?

Here is the combobox XAML:
<ComboBox x:Name="cboParameterName"
IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True"
TabIndex="10"
Grid.Column="1"
Grid.ColumnSpan="4"
ItemsSource="{Binding Path=ParameterNameCollection, Mode=Default}"
SelectedValue="{Binding SelectedParameter.Name}"
Style="{DynamicResource BaseComboBox}">
<ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding ParameterDisplayName}"/>
</DataTemplate>
</ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
</ComboBox>

ABitSmart5-Mar-09 4:07

5-Mar-09 4:07

Did you try with Two-way binding ? Or else refer to this[^], Eslam has provided a sample with INotifyPropertyChanged.

babongita5-Mar-09 5:20

5-Mar-09 5:20

I have tried TwoWay, but that didn't fix the problem, any other ideas?

ABitSmart5-Mar-09 5:23

5-Mar-09 5:23

Well, did you try the INotifyPropertyChanged suggestion from Eslam that I shared? Or this[^]

babongita5-Mar-09 5:40

5-Mar-09 5:40

Yes the all of my base classes implement INotifyProperyChanged

ABitSmart5-Mar-09 5:57

5-Mar-09 5:57

Can you share how you are updating the object in code ? Try calling the property change notification explicitly using SendPropertyChanged("ParameterNameCollection").

babongita5-Mar-09 6:11

5-Mar-09 6:11

There are four different view models since there is are parent child relationships in this scenario.

Here is an attempt to explain

TabParameterViewModel
has a DP of ParameterCollection (which is of Type ObservableCollection)
has a DP of Parameter (bound to the selected item in a ListView)

ParameterViewModel
has a DP of Parameter which is set to a clone of TabParameterViewModel.Parameter
has a DP of ParameterDefaultCollection (again an ObservableCollection) this.Parameter.Defaults

ParameterDefaultsViewModel
has a DP of ParameterDefaultCollection bound to a ListView
has a DP of ParameterDefault bound to the selectedItem in the ListView

ParameterDefaultViewModel
has a DP of ParameterDefault which is set to a clone of ParameterDefaultsViewModel.ParameterDefault

The Parameter Model has a Name property which is a class of ParameterName, which contains other attributes that are needed for the ParameterName. It also has a string property called ParameterLabel which I have bound to a textbox, when I change the SelectedItem in the listbox int TabParameterView the corresponding attributes change in the ParameterView, but any item bound to an object (in this case a Combobox) that attribute is not populated.

ABitSmart5-Mar-09 16:47

5-Mar-09 16:47

Your orignal post had the ComboBox bound to "ParameterNameCollection" which doesn't appear in your description. What collection is it ?

babongita6-Mar-09 2:26

6-Mar-09 2:26

The ParameterViewModel has an ObservableCollection ParameterNameCollection which is a collection of possible names that it could be, with attributes associated to that name, so the Collection is what fills the combobox, but I want the SelectedItem to be the ParameterName of the Parameter object.

If I was to post the complete class for the ParameterViewModel it would look like this:
ParameterViewModel
has a ControlModeCollection (ObservableCollection)
has a ControlTypeCollection (ObservableCollection)
has a DataTypeCollection (ObservableCollection)
has a ParameterMethodCollection (ObservableCollection)
has a ParameterNameCollection (ObservableCollection)
has a DP of SelectedParameter (of Type Parameter)
has a DP of SelectedParameterDefaults (I think this is redundant since it is an ObservableCollection)

Then the Parameter class looks like the following
has a Name (of Type ParameterName)
has a DataType (of Type DataType)
has a ScreenLabel (of Type String)
etc. etc.

the TextBox XAML works as expected, the ComboBox doesn't

<TextBox x:Name="txtParameterLabel"
Style="{DynamicResource RoundedCornerTextBox}"
Grid.Row="1"
Grid.Column="1"
Grid.ColumnSpan="6"
Text="{Binding SelectedParameter.ScreenLabel}"
TabIndex="40"/>

<ComboBox x:Name="cboParameterName"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True"
TabIndex="10"
Grid.Column="1"
Grid.ColumnSpan="4"
ItemsSource="{Binding Path=ParameterNameCollection}"
SelectedValue="{Binding SelectedParameter.Name, Mode=TwoWay}"
Style="{DynamicResource BaseComboBox}">
<ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding ParameterDisplayName}"/>
</DataTemplate>
</ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
</ComboBox>

ABitSmart6-Mar-09 3:15

6-Mar-09 3:15

babongita wrote:
SelectedValue="{Binding SelectedParameter.Name, Mode=TwoWay}"

and

babongita wrote:
<TextBlock Text="{Binding ParameterDisplayName}"/>

I guess both of these are bound to the Parameter object. Was just curious to know if these are two different properties or a typo ? Cause your textbox is bound to a property names "ScreenLabel", which I think is the display label.

babongita wrote:
Then the Parameter class looks like the following
has a Name (of Type ParameterName)

In your description, you say, Name is of type "ParameterName". So then, I suspect this,

SelectedValue="{Binding SelectedParameter.Name, Mode=TwoWay}"

Here you are binding to SelectedParameter.Name where Name is of type ParamterName. The binding will fail since it is not binding to a string type.

If you open your output window in the solution explorer (assuming you are using VS) you would be able to see binding failure messages logged.

babongita6-Mar-09 3:32

6-Mar-09 3:32

First of all you are correct they are bound to different properties of the Parameter object.

My question is though, that I am binding the ComboBox to a Collection of Classes, and the Parameter object as a property which is a the same class, so I would think that the SelectedValue should be able to bind directly to that Value, since they are of the same type. It is just instead of it being a string object, is of another type. I tried using:

SelectedValue="{Binding SelectedParameter.Name.ParameterDisplayName, Mode=TwoWay}"

but then the actual property doesn't get set correctly.

How can I set that combobox to be the correct item then?

ABitSmart6-Mar-09 4:55

6-Mar-09 4:55

Give this a try,

<ComboBox x:Name="cboParameterName"
                           VerticalAlignment="Center"
                           IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True"
                           TabIndex="10"
                           Grid.Column="1"
                           Grid.ColumnSpan="4"
                           ItemsSource="{Binding Path=ParameterNameCollection}"                                                 
                           SelectedValue="{Binding Path=SelectedParameter.Name.ParameterDisplayName}"
                           SelectedValuePath="Name.ParameterDisplayName"
                           Style="{DynamicResource BaseComboBox}">
                  <ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
                        <DataTemplate>
                              <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name.ParameterDisplayName}"/>
                        </DataTemplate>
                  </ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
            </ComboBox>

Note: Added SelectedValuePath and changed the DataTemplate
(fingers crossed ,X,, )

babongita6-Mar-09 5:08

6-Mar-09 5:08

I have been playing with using the SelectedIndex. And it seems to work, at least for now, the problem that I foresee is that I will have to go through the Combobox source to get the index each time, in the event that the Index would change, either by addition or substraction of Metadata.

What are your thoughts on that?

babongita6-Mar-09 5:10

6-Mar-09 5:10

BTW, I tried your suggestion and the first problem was that the combobox wasn't showing what was loaded, the second problem was that the parameter.name wasn't being set either

ABitSmart6-Mar-09 5:24