Hello all!
I declared a style that I want to apply to ALL the buttons in the project, the style resides in the ResourceDictionary:
<Style TargetType="StackPanel">
<Setter Property="Orientation" Value="Horizontal" />
<Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Center"/>
<Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Center"/>
</Style>
Now, in some window, I want to inherit from this style but add a value:
<Style TargetType="StackPanel">
<Setter Property="Margin" Value="5"/>
</Style>
The problem is that it doesn't inherit from the global style, in order to inherit I have to assign a key to the global style:
<Style TargetType="StackPanel" x:Key="StackPanelStyle" />
And then in the window's XAML inherit (or/and override - optional) it:
<Style TargetType="StackPanel" BasedOn="StackPanelStyle" />
The problem is that if you assign a key, it's not global and you have to call it on each window/scope.
A solution to my question should be one of the two (is there anything else I am missing out?):
- Have a global style with a key, that is automatically applied to all its targeted controls in the entire application.
- A way to refer to the ResourceDictionary-level unnamed style without and override it.
I thought about redeclaring the styles near the named styles (in the ResourceDictionary) which actually works:
<!--In the ResourceDictionary-->
<Style x:Key="StackPanelStyle" TargetType="StackPanel">
<Setter Property="Orientation" Value="Horizontal" />
<Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Center"/>
<Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Center"/>
</Style>
<!--In the app.xaml-->
<Style TargetType="StackPanel" BasedOn="{StaticResource StackPanelStyle}"/>
<!--In the window/page scope-->
<Style TargetType="StackPanel" BasedOn="{StaticResource StackPanelStyle}"/
But I am looking for better stuff than stupidly redeclare all the styles.