Re: Vertical Text in Grid - WPF Discussion Boards

Mark Salsbery23-Sep-09 5:51

23-Sep-09 5:51

How about using a RotateTransform[^]?

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Adriaan Davel27-Sep-09 20:03

27-Sep-09 20:03

Yep, tried it, as soon as you limit the width of the textbox the text gets truncated to that...

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Mark Salsbery28-Sep-09 6:19

28-Sep-09 6:19

A RotateTransform doesn't change the dimensions of your textbox.

Text truncation is a separate issue.

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Adriaan Davel28-Sep-09 19:57

28-Sep-09 19:57

Not sure what you mean, could you maybe send me a snippet for this with a TextBlock of 90 Height and 23 Width (for example) with Vertical Text?
If tried using the RotateTransform and it still gives me the truncation, maybe I'm doing something else wrong...

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Mark Salsbery29-Sep-09 6:54

29-Sep-09 6:54

Adriaan Davel wrote:
a snippet for this with a TextBlock of 90 Height and 23 Width

If that's the dimensions you're using then I can see why text gets clipped.

A RotateTransform applied to a textblock will rotate the textblock, not just the text.
So you don't want to swap the width and height values.

You'll also need to be mindful of the element the textblock is contained in,
which depending on its type, could cause additional layout on the textblock.

Here's an example:

<Border BorderBrush="SteelBlue" BorderThickness="2" Width="300" Height="200" >
    <Grid Background="LightSteelBlue" >
        <TextBlock Text="Rotated Text" FontSize="12" FontWeight="Bold" Width="90" Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" >
            <TextBlock.RenderTransform>
                <RotateTransform Angle="270" CenterX="45" CenterY="11" />
            </TextBlock.RenderTransform>
        </TextBlock>
    </Grid>
</Border>

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Adriaan Davel29-Sep-09 19:29

Re: Vertical Text in Grid [modified]

29-Sep-09 19:29

Hi Mark,
Thanks for the Snippet, if I use this the text displays vertically but I have whitespace on either sides of the text to the full width of the text, which means my entire Grid Column need to be the width of the text even though there is only a little bit of text in the middle of it, is there a way to avoid the white space? (Other than calculating negative borders...)

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Mark Salsbery1-Oct-09 6:14

1-Oct-09 6:14

Maybe try the LayoutTransformer in the Silverlight Toolkit[^]

...
    xmlns:layout="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Layout.Toolkit"
...

    <Border BorderBrush="SteelBlue" BorderThickness="2" Width="300" Height="200" >
        <Grid Background="LightSteelBlue" >
            <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                <ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
                <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
            </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
            <Border Grid.Column="0" BorderBrush="SteelBlue" BorderThickness="2" Background="AntiqueWhite" Margin="4" >
                <layout:LayoutTransformer>
                    <layout:LayoutTransformer.LayoutTransform>
                        <RotateTransform Angle="270" />
                    </layout:LayoutTransformer.LayoutTransform>
                    <TextBlock Text="Rotated Text" FontSize="12" FontWeight="Bold" HorizontalAlignment="Center" />
                </layout:LayoutTransformer>
            </Border>
            <Border Grid.Column="1" BorderBrush="SteelBlue" BorderThickness="2" Background="AntiqueWhite" Margin="4" >
            </Border>
        </Grid>
    </Border>

Easier than trying to manually adjust margins/offsets.

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
Java | [Coffee]

modified on Thursday, October 1, 2009 1:07 PM

Adriaan Davel1-Oct-09 19:49

1-Oct-09 19:49

Mark Salsbery wrote:
Steel

mmm, I like Steel! Big Grin | :-D

Thanks Mark, I'll give it a try and let you know!

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Adriaan Davel1-Oct-09 20:16

1-Oct-09 20:16

This is a brilliant solution, works 100%!

Thanks for the help!

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Weird blue dots

lhyblue22-Sep-09 20:52

lhyblue

22-Sep-09 20:52

I used the WPF ellipse in my program.

When I clicked on the ellipse, there will be blue dots appearing around it.

Why? How can I get rid of them?

Confused | :confused:

Pete O'Hanlon22-Sep-09 22:34

22-Sep-09 22:34

The dot's are called a focus rectangle. To get rid of them you need to set the FocusVisualStyle to null for the particular button. You can do this like this:

<Button Content="..." FocusVisualStyle="{x:Null}" />

If you don't want the focus rectangle on any button, you'd define a global style for all buttons and set it there.

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lhyblue22-Sep-09 23:01

lhyblue

22-Sep-09 23:01

Thanks a lot! Laugh | :laugh:

Pete O'Hanlon23-Sep-09 2:08

23-Sep-09 2:08

You're welcome.

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egenis23-Sep-09 0:26

egenis

23-Sep-09 0:26

was going to suggest getting an ointment or something... Unsure | :~

WPF vs....

Chrispie12322-Sep-09 8:32

Chrispie123

22-Sep-09 8:32

Hi Everyone,

I am developing a web site that will be commercial but i want a really nice look and feel it. What will be the best to use? Is WPF a good approach? If so where may I find good look and feel of existing web sites to show to my customer? How easy is it to maintain?
I also heard that search engines are capable of getting all keywords if you use Silverlight/WPF. How true is that and would you recommend WPF?

Thanks
Chris

Re: WPF vs....

Pete O'Hanlon22-Sep-09 9:15

22-Sep-09 9:15

Chris

WPF is primarily a desktop application framework. Yes, you can deploy BAML application, but they only run on Windows. The web development area that uses XAML (the markup behind WPF) is Silverlight. Yes, Silverlight is SEO "friendly", so that's probably what you are looking for.

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WPF FORM with kind of pie chart consisting of 12 coloreed glass segments

Re: WPF vs....

BurNingFat22-Sep-09 20:12

BurNingFat

22-Sep-09 20:12

WPF mostly used to develop the desktop application.
i think you shoud use the ASP.NET+SQLServer+Ajax,if you want it to be more attractive,using the Silverlight~~

carson200522-Sep-09 4:54

carson2005

22-Sep-09 4:54

Hi,
i need a kind of impression. What tool enables me to create a WPF Form containing a lets say dark blue background. On top of this background there should be a circle shape consisting of 12 Segements. Each segment should be like aero glass but colored. Each segment should have a different color.
How can i create such ?

Any info is appreciated.
Smile | :)

Re: WPF FORM with kind of pie chart consisting of 12 coloreed glass segments

Pete O'Hanlon22-Sep-09 5:02

22-Sep-09 5:02

Sounds like you need a pie chart (available from the WPF Toolkit library here[^]).

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