Question about using WPF theme elements in Style's BasedOn - WPF Studio, Themes, and Shared Library for WPF Forum

Posted 15 years ago by Craig - Varigence, Inc.

Version: 10.1.0522

In my WPF application, I have ComboBoxes in several places and currently use a large ResourceDictionary as a theme file. While I don't want to replace that theme with an Actipro theme, I do want to use the Actipro ComboBox style for my controls.

I already have a ComboBox style in my theme file so I intended to do the following:


    <Style 
        TargetType="{x:Type ComboBox}"
        BasedOn="{StaticResource editorsThemes:EditorsCommonDictionary.NativeComboBoxStyleKey}"
        >
        <Setter Property="SnapsToDevicePixels" Value="true" />
        <Setter Property="Template">
        ...
    </Style>

However, I got an error indicating that component resource keys cannot be used in BasedOn. I tried other variations but none worked.

Is there a proper way to build a ComboBox style that is based on a ComboBox style from Actipro themes?

Thanks,

-Craig

Comments (1)

Posted 15 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Hello,

The BasedOn value that you are using is close, but a minor change is necessary for it to work:

Assuming:
xmlns:themes="http://schemas.actiprosoftware.com/winfx/xaml/themes"

BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Static themes:EditorsCommonDictionary.NativeComboBoxStyleKey}}"

Please let us know if you have further questions.

Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v25.1.1) was released 3 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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