Control Template question

I have a Control Template that defines how a control element (ie a button)
will look.
Is it possible to specify a text related property in the ControlTemplate so
that IF the button's content contains any text, it will be displayed with
this property ?

An alternative would be to always use a custom "buttoncontent" object for
the button's content and use a DataTemplate to define how to display
buttoncontent, but this makes the Xaml markup pretty disjointed.



--
Griff
(trying to make an industrial UI with XAML/WPF/c#)

I don't think I understand what are you trying to do. Can you elaborate a
little bit?
--
Valentin Iliescu [MVP C#]


"Griff" wrote:

> I have a Control Template that defines how a control element (ie a button)
> will look.
> Is it possible to specify a text related property in the ControlTemplate so
> that IF the button's content contains any text, it will be displayed with
> this property ?
>
> An alternative would be to always use a custom "buttoncontent" object for
> the button's content and use a DataTemplate to define how to display
> buttoncontent, but this makes the Xaml markup pretty disjointed.
>
>
>
> --
> Griff
> (trying to make an industrial UI with XAML/WPF/c#)

Sorry, I'll try to be a bit clearer.

I have used a ControlTemplate successfully to customise a button (shape,
fill, shadow etc) but I still have 2 problems.

1. I want to display all button text as white foreground, transparent
background.
So I'd like to write in my control template

<Textblock Text="{TemplateBinding Property=Text}"/>
Except that the Button does not have a "text" parameter - it has "content".
Can I somehow specify "if the content of this button happens to be text make
it white foreground" ?

2. I'd in fact like to break up the appearance within the button with a
grid but have just found that I cannot (apparently) have RowDefinitions
within the ControTemplate tag, which has somewhat caught me out.


--
Griff
(trying to make an industrial UI with XAML/WPF/c#)


"viliescu" wrote:

> I don't think I understand what are you trying to do. Can you elaborate a
> little bit?
> --
> Valentin Iliescu [MVP C#]
>
>
> "Griff" wrote:
>
> > I have a Control Template that defines how a control element (ie a button)
> > will look.
> > Is it possible to specify a text related property in the ControlTemplate so
> > that IF the button's content contains any text, it will be displayed with
> > this property ?
> >
> > An alternative would be to always use a custom "buttoncontent" object for
> > the button's content and use a DataTemplate to define how to display
> > buttoncontent, but this makes the Xaml markup pretty disjointed.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Griff
> > (trying to make an industrial UI with XAML/WPF/c#)

Much clearer

1. Add a Setter in the template style to make the Foreground White
It will look like

<Style x:Key="MyButton" TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="White"/>
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate>
...

2. For me it works. This is a snippet of the template's style (notice there
is
no Row/ColumnDefinitions tag)

<Style x:Key="MyButton" TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate>
<Grid>
<ColumnDefinition Width="4"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="4"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
...
--
Valentin Iliescu [MVP C#]


"Griff" wrote:

> Sorry, I'll try to be a bit clearer.
>
> I have used a ControlTemplate successfully to customise a button (shape,
> fill, shadow etc) but I still have 2 problems.
>
> 1. I want to display all button text as white foreground, transparent
> background.
> So I'd like to write in my control template
>
> <Textblock Text="{TemplateBinding Property=Text}"/>
> Except that the Button does not have a "text" parameter - it has "content".
> Can I somehow specify "if the content of this button happens to be text make
> it white foreground" ?
>
> 2. I'd in fact like to break up the appearance within the button with a
> grid but have just found that I cannot (apparently) have RowDefinitions
> within the ControTemplate tag, which has somewhat caught me out.
>
>
> --
> Griff
> (trying to make an industrial UI with XAML/WPF/c#)
>
>
> "viliescu" wrote:
>
> > I don't think I understand what are you trying to do. Can you elaborate a
> > little bit?
> > --
> > Valentin Iliescu [MVP C#]
> >
> >
> > "Griff" wrote:
> >
> > > I have a Control Template that defines how a control element (ie a button)
> > > will look.
> > > Is it possible to specify a text related property in the ControlTemplate so
> > > that IF the button's content contains any text, it will be displayed with
> > > this property ?
> > >
> > > An alternative would be to always use a custom "buttoncontent" object for
> > > the button's content and use a DataTemplate to define how to display
> > > buttoncontent, but this makes the Xaml markup pretty disjointed.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Griff
> > > (trying to make an industrial UI with XAML/WPF/c#)