style

Why I can't style the DataGridTextColumn?

When I tried to create a Style to DataGridTextColumn with the following code: <Style TargetType="{x:Type DataGridTextColumn}"> ... </Style> Visual Studio 2010 highlight {x:Type DataGridTextColumn} by blue line and said: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ...

WPF DatePicker IsEnabled property not changing appearance

I think I have found an issue with the DatePicker in the toolkit, perhaps some of you gurus can check it out. The issue is when setting the IsEnabled property of the DatePicker. If set in XAML, it stays grey even if you set the IsEnabled to true at run time. The same goes for the other way around should it start off being enabled. Th...

KML Label placement

How can I specify label placement in a kml file to make the label centered on the feature (not offset to the top right as in default)? ...

Change and Maintain CSS Style of Button State

I have 5 list items that act like tabs for a page stored in a Masterpage in a asp.net application. When the user selects a list item, I would like to redirect the the page, and change the class for that list item (tab) to show the active tab the user is on. What is the best way to dynamically change the class of the list item based on t...

iPhone HUD style progress bar

I've been wanting to create a HUD style loading bar like the SMS app on the iPhone used to have (http://www.jonokane.com/images/blog/iphoneFixProblem.jpg) but don't know how. I was wondering if anyone has done this before or if there is a tutorial somewhere for it? I just think it looks so nice and would like to use it rather than the bu...

How to replicate this screenshot in WebForms?

I need to replicate the following in ASP.NET WebForms using a GridView. But I am not sure where to start. Basically I need 3 columns. The checkbox (which sometimes needs to be disabled), and 2 standard text columns. I've gone through the tutorial and I can see how to basically dump text data into a GridView, but not clear on how ...

wpf, Style, Setters

Hello, I've got question about wpf xaml style definitions. When I try to set style in this way: <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical"> <StackPanel.Style> <Setter Property="BusinessModeler:GraphItemBehaviour.IsBroughtIntoViewWhenSelected" Value="True" /> </StackPanel.Styl...

Jquery css: applying !important styles

I am having trouble applying a style that is !important. Ive tried: $("#elem").css("width", "100px !important"); This does nothing, no width style whatsoever is applied. Is there a jquery-ish way of applying such a style without having to overwrite cssText (which would mean id need to parse it first etc) Edit: i should add that i hav...

Strange WPF ListBox Behavior

I’m trying to bind a List of items to a listbox in WPF. The items are grouped by one value and each group is to be housed in an expander. Everything works fine when I don’t use any custom styles. However, when I use custom styles (which work properly with non-grouped items and as independent controls) the binding doesn’t display any i...

Programming style question on how to code functions

Hey all! So, I was just coding a bit today, and I realized that I don't have much consistency when it comes to a coding style when programming functions. One of my main concerns is whether or not its proper to code it so that you check that the input of the user is valid OUTSIDE of the function, or just throw the values passed by the us...

WPF reference style in resource dictionary and use triggers

I have a style defined in a resource dictionary that applies to all ComboBox controls. Within the ComboBox control, I reference the style like so: Style="{DynamicResource MyComboBoxStyle}" This works ok. I want to be able to add some triggers to some of the ComboBox controls. What is a good way to use the style referenced as a dynamic...

Styling a result set

Perhaps this is not the proper place to ask this question, if that is the case, please direct me to the correct venue. I'm looking for research, guides, any kind of information pertaining to the structuring and styling of results sets; data which comes back from a search, or when looking at content in a list view. Links would be apprec...

Why the positions of the elements change on the page after a postback?

Did you have such an experience: I have an asp.net page with couple of div elements on my page. Some of them are floating left and some are separated with <br /> elements. When I put a button which just post-backs and click that, I see that some divs (which were floated to left before) are repositioned to a new line. Any idea about po...

WPF style problem with custom control and textbox-derived class

I had the following situation: main application has app.xaml, which sets the style for TextBox controls a custom control is implemented in a separate DLL, and uses several TextBox controls The main application's TextBox style is applied to the custom control's TextBox controls. Cool! My problem comes in because I need to use a cl...

Is there any appreciable difference between if and if-else?

Given the following code snippets, is there any appreciable difference? public boolean foo(int input) { if(input > 10) { doStuff(); return true; } if(input == 0) { doOtherStuff(); return true; } return false; } vs. public boolean foo(int input) { if(input > 10) { doStuff(); ...

Generic CSS templates anywhere (not layout)?

I am looking for a place where I can download a bunch of CSS stylesheets to change the appearance of my titles, links, paragraphs, etc. I am not an artist, so I am hoping to leverage other people's skills in choosing the right fonts, colors, sizes, etc. I do not want to include layout because then it won't be as generic. Does anyone kno...

phpbb specific forum page styles

I am using phpbb on a site for a client, and the client has requested that each different forum page have a different background color. Such functionality is not built into phpbb (from what I can tell), so how should I go about doing this? Can I modify the code of phpbb directly? My other thought was to use a js conditional statement, ...

Change the content of a <style> element through JavaScript

The Problem I have the following code: <html> <head> <style id="ID_Style"> .myStyle { color : #FF0000 ; } </style> </head> <body> <p class="myStyle"> Hello World ! </p> </body> </html> And I want to modify the contents of <style> through JavaScript. The Expected Solution The first solution was to use the innerHTML ...

Any way to make GtkProgressBar have a transparent background?

So far I've not been able to find any way to make the background of a GtkProgressBar transparent. I've tried setting a transparent image as the background, but the alpha channel is ignored. Can this be done? ...

a more pythonic way to express conditionally bounded loop?

I've got a loop that wants to execute to exhaustion or until some user specified limit is reached. I've got a construct that looks bad yet I can't seem to find a more elegant way to express it; is there one? def ello_bruce(limit=None): for i in xrange(10**5): if predicate(i): if not limit is None: ...