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WPF - Send mouse wheel messages to a Frame/WebBrowser control

I'm hosting some web content in a WPF app using the WebBrowser control (or Frame, havent' decided yet). There are some external influences that I'd like to use to simulate mouse wheel behavior in the web content. Is there a way for my WPF app to send mouse messages to the WebBrowser control, with a Delta (scroll) value that I specify? ...

Displaying xaml resources dynamically?

I used Mike Swanson's illustrator to xaml converter to convert some of my images to xaml. The convert creates a viewbox that contains the image. These viewboxes I made resource files in my program. The code below shows what I'm trying to do: I have a viewmodel that has an enum variable called PrimaryWinding of type Windings. The values...

Compare controls in wpf

sorry about not making myself clear enough and not putting enough effort (wont happen again :)). i'm building a form App where users have to fill out the form. i have a TabControl with 3 TabItem one of the TabItem has TextBoxes the second has TextBoxes and RadioButton and third has only CheckBoxes. i have written a code to dictect error ...

WPF Error Styles only being rendered properly on visible tab of a tab control

I have a data object used to contain my UI data that supports INotifyPropertyChanged and IDataErrorInfo. Originally I had all of the UI controls displaying in one big WPF application and was happily seeing errors flagged via this custom style: <!-- Set error style for textboxes --> <Style x:Key="txtBoxErrStyle" TargetType="{x:Ty...

WPF Toolkit: VisualStateGroup Bug?

I am getting an odd intermittent bug that seems to ve related to the VisualStateManager in the WPF Toolkit. I am developing an application that uses the Toolkit (June 2009), but not the VisualStateManager. Nonetheless, I am getting the following error: 'TextColor' name cannot be found in the name scope of 'System.Windows.Controls.Grid'....

CultureInfo.ClearCachedData does not work. It randomly sometimes works sometimes not.

I want to detect the regional settings changes and show the dates in the correct format in a WPF application. But there is a strange problem with CultureInfo.ClearCachedData. It randomly either works either not. Does anybody know why, and a workaround for this ? I know that the regional settings are stored in the registry, but it's too p...

WPF Toolkit: Bug in Control Template?

Here's one for all you XAML wizards: The WPF Toolkit Calendar control (June 2009) appears to have a bug. The bug only crops up when you modify the control template for the calendar, specifically, the PART_CalendarItem. At the end of this message, I have included the XAML for a (Blend 3.0) window that declares a Calendar and assigns it ...

How can i right click in a WPF Popup without it losing focus

I have a text box that has spell check enabled. It is inside a popup. This enables me to edit multi line text in a datagrid, when the text is being edited the text box it is in grows over the top of the grid instead of resizing the height of the row. The problem is that when the red squiggly lines appear to indicate a spelling mistake i...

WPF Custom Control and exposing properties thru DependencyProperty

Ok - I'm pulling my hair out over what I thought was a simple scenario: create a custom Label for bilingual use that contained two additional properties (EnglishText, FrenchText). Currently its structured like this: Public Class myCustomLabel Inherits System.Windows.Controls.Label Public myEnglishTextProperty As DependencyProp...

Set Window.Content to a page by XAML?

<Window x:Class="MyWindow" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:src="clr-namespace:WpfApplication1" Title="ContactsSelector" Height="300" Width="300"> <Window.Content> <src:MyPage> <!--MyPage is a page that I c...

WPF Listbox Images from a database

Hi guys! (How long have we been using OpenIDs? I don't seem to have one connected to any provider and no FAQ on the planet seems to tell you what to do when you lose your OpenID. I've had to create a new account. Argh!) I'm trying to fill a (carousel) listbox from a database, but I can't get the images to display. Every single example ...

Injecting Mouse Input in WPF Applications

I've been working on injecting input into a WPF application. What makes this project hard is that I need to be able to inject the input into the application even though it's running in the background (i.e. another application has the input focus). Using the SendInput() function is therefore out of the question. So far, I've got keyboard...

WPF two-way binding: how do I update a TextBox with a formatted version of the value it just set?

I have a class, called DateField, that has a string Value property. If you set this property to a string that can be parsed into a valid date, the property setter sets Value to the properly formatted date, e.g.: private string _Value; public string Value { get { return _Value; } s...

WPF how to make a navigation control

Hi, being new to WPF this is a complex problem for me. What i want is a "panel" at the bottom approx. 50px in height. On that panel i want e.g. 3 imagebuttons (an arbitrary number) centered in the bar. And when i hover each of the buttons they should grow in size by e.g. 10 px so it looks cool. Most important, how to make the bar and the...

WPF Adorner Clipping

Hi, I have an ItemsControl in a ScrollViewer. The items in the ItemsControl are expanded to a DataTemplate which basically consists of an Adorner. Now the problem is, when scrolling, the Visual Children of the Adorner are visible outside the ScrollViewer. Lets say I scroll from the Horizontal Offset 0 to 100, the Visual Children of the...

WPF: OnMouseLeftButtonDown not called

I'm creating a control which is derived from Panel. When mouse is clicked on one of the children it gets the OnMouseLeftButtonDown overriden method called. When mouse is clicked on the control itself, there is no event. How come? ...

FlowDocumentScrollViewer won't scroll

I'm trying to find the most expandable way to show a flowdocument inside a window - just a flowdocument. I have Then in the constructor for the Window, I set the Document of the viewer to one I load from XAML (in code). The XAML contains: ...

WPF - how to best implement a panel with draggable/zoomable children?

I'm trying to modify the default graph viewer of the Graph# library because its user interface is awful (just try dragging a node outside of the boundaries, you'll see!) The basic setup is this: there is a GraphCanvas control (inherited from Panel) which has children of Vertex and Edge control types. What I want to achieve is: GraphCa...

WPF checkbox IsChecked property does not change according to binding value

here is my code: xaml side: I use a data template to bind with item "dataType1" <DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type dataType1}"> <WrapPanel> <CheckBox IsChecked="{Binding Path=IsChecked, Mode=TwoWay}" Command="{Binding Path=CheckedCommand} /> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=ItemName, Mode=OneWay}" /> </WrapPanel> </D...

StackPanel with huge amount of children

i'm building a wpf control based on the outlook calender sample in code project, first of all i wanna know if this is a good sample or that this is not the way of writing controls? second, i need to support milliseconds view of the calender, the meaning of that is more than 24 * 60 * 60 items my question is how to build this panel(if...