Style default selected background visual style for DateTimeB

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Posted 13 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Hi Patrik,

The SystemColors.HighlightBrush is currently used, with an opacity of 0.4. You can change this using an implicit Style for the SelectionLayer element like so:

<Application ...
    xmlns:editors="http://schemas.actiprosoftware.com/winfx/xaml/editors">
    <Application.Resources>
        <Style TargetType="editors:SelectionLayer">
            <Setter Property="SelectionBrush" Value="Red" />
        </Style>
    </Application.Resources>
</Application>

You may want to set the Opacity property also, based on your needs. This has to go into your application resources, otherwise it will not be picked up by the SelectionLayer elements (because they do not derive from Control).

Actipro Software Support

Posted 13 years ago by Patrik Cedendahl

I tried this. I added the Style to my APP.XML but still the SelectionBrush is blue. What im doing wrong???

Posted 13 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Hi Patrik,

I just tried this again and it worked as expected. If you can put together a small sample project that reproduces the issue and email it over to our support address, then we can take a closer look.

Actipro Software Support

Posted 13 years ago by Wilfried Goller

Hello,
i have got the same problem with the selectionbrush. i set the property but the selection is still blue. are there any suggestions?

Posted 13 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Hi Wilfried,

We never receieved a sample project that reproduced this issue and the above code still works in our tests. If you can put together a small sample project that reproduces the issue and email it over to our support address, then we can take a closer look.

Actipro Software Support

Posted 13 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Hi Wilfried,

Thank you for the sample. As stated above:

Quote:
This has to go into your application resources, otherwise it will not be picked up by the SelectionLayer elements (because they do not derive from Control).

If you put it in the window's resources then it will not be picked up.

If an element that does not derive from Control (i.e. TextBlock, SelectionLayer, etc) is in a ControlTemplate, then it will only pick up Implicit Styles that are defined inside the ControlTemplate or in the Application resources. They will not pick up Implicit Styles defined anywhere else, such as a visual higher up the tree.

This is how WPF was designed to prevent implicit Styles from inadverently affecting elements inside controls.

Actipro Software Support

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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