Hi Experts,
I am unable to locate a property similar to WindowsForm "DropDownWidth" Property for the Combo Box in WPF. Is there a work around to achieve this functionality?
Please help! Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Samar
A:
use the value like....
<ComboBox Width="85" Height="21.96" />
That will set the size of the box won't it?
Edited & corrected a mistake!
loxxy
2010-07-29 09:11:40
umm sry, my bad n535.
loxxy
2010-07-29 09:26:59
Oh no no no loxxy..!!!! I am talking about the Width and height of the drop down area when the combo box is clicked and not the width and height of the combo box itself.
samar
2010-07-29 09:42:13
A:
I don't remember if there is such property in a combobox, but you always can alter a default control template. In your case you should specify a width property of a popup element in a control template. Here is a sample code, taken from one of the WPF themes from Codeplex:
<ControlTemplate x:Key="ComboBoxTemplate" TargetType="{x:Type ComboBox}">
...
<Popup ... Width="100" >
...
</ControlTemplate>
This is a general idea. You can look in a themes source code fore more information. This MSDN pages can also be helpful:
n535
2010-07-29 09:26:47
I tried the following but it did not work. <UserControl.Resources> <ControlTemplate x:Key="popupTemplate" TargetType="{x:Type ComboBox}"> <Popup Width="10000" /> </ControlTemplate> </UserControl.Resources>I also tried the ControlTemplate part in my combobox xaml but it did not work. Do you have any working code with you or anything similar??
samar
2010-07-29 10:39:51
You can search for an example inside a theme file (from codeplex). It is just too big to paste here, just open a theme file, for example BureauBlue.xaml, and search for this line: <ControlTemplate x:Key="ComboBoxTemplate" TargetType="{x:Type ComboBox}">
n535
2010-07-29 10:49:45