Vista - Splitbar blues

In Win Forms 2.0 MS changed the splitbar to a double container. I really
loved that decision.

Now I am struggling again with WPF...

Take a look at
http://blogs.infosupport.com//images...eenShot_01.jpg

look close at the vertical splitter, it is a tiny bit layered on top of the
view on the left hand side.

As far as I can see the order in which the gridcells and splitters are added
to the grid seriously affects the layout.

Does anybody know the rules that are being followed by these controls?

Erno

Sorry, should have called it GridSplitter Blues

Erno

"Erno" <no-spam> wrote in message
news:ORlkC$0JGHA.1288@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> In Win Forms 2.0 MS changed the splitbar to a double container. I really
> loved that decision.
>
> Now I am struggling again with WPF...
>
> Take a look at
> http://blogs.infosupport.com//images...eenShot_01.jpg
>
> look close at the vertical splitter, it is a tiny bit layered on top of
> the view on the left hand side.
>
> As far as I can see the order in which the gridcells and splitters are
> added to the grid seriously affects the layout.
>
> Does anybody know the rules that are being followed by these controls?
>
> Erno
>

From the MSDN:

----
Child controls of a Grid control are rendered in the order that they appear
in markup or in code. Therefore, a GridSplitter control can be obscured by
other controls that are rendered after the GridSplitter control is rendered.
To make sure that a GridSplitter control is not obscured by other children
of a Grid control, do one of the following:

1. Specify margins for the controls adjacent to GridSplitter controls in the
markup or code. These margins make sure a GridSplitter control is reachable
when other controls are layered on top.

2. Define the GridSplitter controls after all other controls in the markup
or in code when defining a Grid control. Defining the GridSplitter controls
last renders them on top of any other controls in the Grid.
----

Yep, that what I saw and I've got it working now...

I find it a bit strange that the other controls have to know about the size
of the splitter...

Erno

"Erno" <no-spam> wrote in message
news:ORlkC$0JGHA.1288@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> In Win Forms 2.0 MS changed the splitbar to a double container. I really
> loved that decision.
>
> Now I am struggling again with WPF...
>
> Take a look at
> http://blogs.infosupport.com//images...eenShot_01.jpg
>
> look close at the vertical splitter, it is a tiny bit layered on top of
> the view on the left hand side.
>
> As far as I can see the order in which the gridcells and splitters are
> added to the grid seriously affects the layout.
>
> Does anybody know the rules that are being followed by these controls?
>
> Erno
>