Preserving theme on TreeViewItem with ItemContainerStyle - WPF Studio, Themes, and Shared Library for WPF Forum

Posted 12 years ago by Kasper

Version: 11.2.0552

Hi guys,

I have a TreeView where I set a Style for the TreeViewItem to make them use properties on the data objects for the Expanded and Selected state. Something like this:

<TreeView.ItemContainerStyle>
    <Style TargetType="{x:Type TreeViewItem}">
        <Setter Property="IsExpanded" Value="{Binding IsExpanded, Mode=TwoWay}" />
        <Setter Property="IsSelected" Value="{Binding IsSelected, Mode=TwoWay}" />
    </Style>
</TreeView.ItemContainerStyle>

Unfortunately, this seems to turn off the theme-stuff I get from you guys, making this particular TreeView look different than the other TreeView's in my Window. How can I prevent that from happening? I really like the theme you have added to my TreeView's and so on :)

Comments (2)

Posted 12 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Hi Kasper,

That is correct, a control can only have one other style applied to other than it's default style. This includes implicit Styles or if the Style property is explicitly set, which ItemContainerStyle ultimately does. Our theming for the native controls uses implicit Styles, so setting ItemContainerStyle effectively short circuits that.

All of our styles are exposed using ComponentResourceKeys defined in the SharedResourceKeys class. So you can use something like:

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

<Style TargetType="{x:Type TreeViewItem}" BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Static themes:SharedResourceKeys.TreeViewItemStyleKey}}">
    <Setter Property="IsExpanded" Value="{Binding IsExpanded, Mode=TwoWay}" />
    <Setter Property="IsSelected" Value="{Binding IsSelected, Mode=TwoWay}" />
</Style>

Actipro Software Support

Posted 12 years ago by Kasper

Excellent, that was exactly what I was looking for! Thank you :)

The latest build of this product (v24.1.1) was released 2 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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