Silverlight Stop Certain Storyboards

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Hi i have a silverlight control and a whole load of storyboards. Most of them run on mouse enter so i'm wondering if there's a way i can prevent other storyboards from running when a storyboard is already being run.
I have:

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cWp1.Begin();
Canvas.SetZIndex(c1, 99);
this.b1.Visibility = Visibility.Visible; <!--Reverse storyboard button -->
<!--Want to prevent these storyboards from starting-->
cWp2.Stop();
cWp1.Stop();

My aim is to have three canvases side by side and have them grow and shift location on mouse enter. I got that working but if i accidentally mouse over the other controls, other storyboards start and gets everything messed up.

Posted 19-Aug-11 22:57pm

Deaths_eclipsE

Updated 20-Aug-11 1:32am

walterhevedeich

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Abhinav S · Answer 1 · 2011-08-19T23:16:00

Solution 1

Silverlight supports multiple story boards running in parallel.
The simplest way to do this would be to do this by keeping track of all the storyboards - say in a collection.
Whenever you want to run a particular one, loop through this collection and stop all others.

Posted 19-Aug-11 23:16pm

Abhinav S

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Deaths_eclipsE 21-Aug-11 8:47am

Do you mind showing me how this can be achieved? Because i don't know how to prevent others from starting when one is running.

Oludayo Alli · Answer 2 · 2011-08-20T02:42:00

Solution 2

Check your storyboard very well, it is possible you are starting the three storyboard at the same time. You have to set the OnMouseOver for each canvas so that each storyboard will start as appropriate. Now if you hover your mouse on canvas 1 and then on canvas 2 and you want to stop the storyboard for canvas 1 when that of canvas 2 is running, just call the stop method i.e

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cWp2.Stop();

Posted 20-Aug-11 2:42am

Oludayo Alli

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Deaths_eclipsE 21-Aug-11 8:45am

Nope. The other canvases start on mouse over and the problem is if i were to accidentally mouse over the other canvas their storyboards will start and mess up everything.

Oludayo Alli 21-Aug-11 9:13am

You're starting the storyboard of each canvas on it's MouseOver right? If you MouseOver one canvas, the storyboard starts and if you go ahead to mouseover another canvas, it's Storyborad also start which messes things up right? If this is the case, I will suggest the follow:

1. When Storyboard for canvas 1 start, stop the Storyboard of canvas 2&3
2. When Storyboard for canvas 2 start, stop the Storyboard of canvas 1&3
3. When Storyboard for canvas 3 start, stop the Storyboard of canvas 1&2

Try this and see if it is the desired result.

Deaths_eclipsE 22-Aug-11 6:57am

I am doing it but it won't work. After all i think the .Stop() method only will effect the storyboard if it is running. I tried using is statements but i aloso couldn't get the correct code. Anyway thanks for helping.

Oludayo Alli 22-Aug-11 7:38am

If you can prepare a demo version of your project, you can upload it and I may be able to help better.