Acessing Storyboards from another XAMLS

Question

Hello. I'm trying to build a Silverlight application where I use 5 XAMLS. The first one, "Page.xaml" contains a menu with 4 buttons and a Canvas to receive the each content XAML. Each Content XAML has 2 storyboards: "entrada" (the "enter section" animation) and "saida" (the section ending animation).

I am experiencing the following problem: The menu is in Page.xaml. I want each button to, when clicked, begin the "saida" storyboard, and, when the storyboard finishes playing, it loads the new content of another XAML (picked by the menu). When I try to do it, Visual Studio keeps telling me that "'ContentCanvas' does not exist in the current context" for each content XAML.

Here is my Page.xaml.cs:

using System;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Ink;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Animation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;

namespace SilverlightPagingSystemProject
{
    public partial class Page : UserControl
    {
        String secao = "home";
        Section1 s1 = new Section1();
        Section2 s2 = new Section2();
        Section3 s3 = new Section3();

        public Page()
        {
            // Required to initialize variables
            InitializeComponent();
            Link1.MouseLeftButtonDown += new MouseButtonEventHandler(Link1_MouseLeftButtonDown);
            Link2.MouseLeftButtonDown += new MouseButtonEventHandler(Link2_MouseLeftButtonDown);
            Link3.MouseLeftButtonDown += new MouseButtonEventHandler(Link3_MouseLeftButtonDown);
        }

        private void Link1_MouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
        {
            if (secao == "home")
            {
                ContentCanvas.Children.Remove(s1);
                ContentCanvas.Children.Remove(s2);
                ContentCanvas.Children.Remove(s3);
                ContentCanvas.Children.Add(s1);
            }
            else
            {
                ContentCanvas.saida.Begin();
            }
        }

        private void Link2_MouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
        {
            if (secao == "home")
            {
                ContentCanvas.Children.Remove(s1);
                ContentCanvas.Children.Remove(s2);
                ContentCanvas.Children.Remove(s3);
                ContentCanvas.Children.Add(s2);
            }
            else
            {
                ContentCanvas.saida.Begin();
            }
        }

        private void Link3_MouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
        {
            if (secao == "home")
            {
                ContentCanvas.Children.Remove(s1);
                ContentCanvas.Children.Remove(s2);
                ContentCanvas.Children.Remove(s3);
                ContentCanvas.Children.Add(s3);
            }
            else
            {
                ContentCanvas.saida.Begin();
            }
        }
    }
}

And here is my sections XAML. All of them are the same.

using System;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Ink;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Animation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;

namespace SilverlightPagingSystemProject
{
    public partial class Section3 : UserControl
    {
     public Section3()
     {
      // Required to initialize variables
      InitializeComponent();
            Section3LayoutRoot.Loaded += new RoutedEventHandler(Section1LayoutRoot_Loaded);
            saida.Completed += new EventHandler(saida_Completed);
     }

        void saida_Completed(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            this.Parent.ContentCanvas.Children.Remove(s1);
            this.Parent.ContentCanvas.Children.Remove(s2);
            this.Parent.ContentCanvas.Children.Remove(s3);
            this.Parent.ContentCanvas.Children.Add(secao);
        }

        void Section1LayoutRoot_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            entrada.Begin();
        }
    }
}

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

If I'm not mistaken, the object obtained via the reference this.Parent should actually be the ContentCanvas object. So try changing

this.Parent.ContentCanvas.Children.Remove(s1);

to

((Canvas)this.Parent).Children.Remove(s1);

assuming ContentCanvas is in fact a Canvas.