Styling a toolwindow container

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Posted 14 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Hi Billy,

1. These buttons are represented by either TitleBarButton or TitleBarRepeatButton. So their color is determined by the TitleBarButton.Foreground property. But you may want to set the ForegroundActiveDisabled, ForegroundActiveHover, ForegroundActiveNormal, ForegroundActivePressed, ForegroundInactiveDisabled, ForegroundInactiveHover, and/or ForegroundInactiveNormal properties which are used based on the curren state.

2. This is the same as #1 above.

3. The background should be determined by the DockingWindow.Background property. But again, you may want to set the TabBackgroundHover, TabBackgroundNormal, and TabBackgroundSelected properties instead.

4. Like #3, there are TabForeground properties you can set.

We don't have a "DockingWindowControl" control, so I'm not sure where that error is coming from. But I suspect you have an invalid Style or ControlTemplate.

Actipro Software Support

Posted 14 years ago by Billy Jacobs

Where are the TitleBarButton properties located? I cannot find any TitleBarButton in xaml in the ToolwindowContainer or ToolWindow control. Can you provide an example?

Thanks

Posted 14 years ago by Billy Jacobs

Where are the TitleBarButton properties located? I cannot find any TitleBarButton in xaml in the ToolwindowContainer or ToolWindow control. Can you provide an example?

Here is my XAML. I am creating the toolwindows and documentwindows programatically.


                    <docking:DockSite x:Name="_dockSite" Background="Transparent"  Grid.Row="1" CanDocumentWindowsRaft="True" SnapsToDevicePixels="True" Foreground="White" >
                        <docking:SplitContainer >
                            <docking:ToolWindowContainer x:Name="_sourceItemsToolWindowContainer" TitleBarForegroundActive="White" TitleBarForegroundInactive="White" TitleBarBackgroundActive="{DynamicResource VSBackgroundBrush}" TitleBarBackgroundInactive="{DynamicResource VSBackgroundBrush}" SnapsToDevicePixels="True" docking:DockSite.ControlSize="300,500" />
                            <docking:Workspace Background="Transparent">
                                <docking:TabbedMdiHost x:Name="_tabbedMDIHost" SnapsToDevicePixels="True" Background="{DynamicResource VSBackgroundBrush}" Foreground="White" TabPlacement="Top" IsCloseButtonOnTab="True" TabOverflowBehavior="ScrollWithMenu">
                                    <docking:TabbedMdiContainer BorderThickness="0" SnapsToDevicePixels="True">
                                        
                                    </docking:TabbedMdiContainer>
                                </docking:TabbedMdiHost>
                            </docking:Workspace>
                            <docking:ToolWindowContainer x:Name="_alertItemsToolWindowContainer" TitleBarForegroundActive="White" TitleBarForegroundInactive="White" TitleBarBackgroundActive="{DynamicResource VSBackgroundBrush}" TitleBarBackgroundInactive="{DynamicResource VSBackgroundBrush}"/>
                        </docking:SplitContainer>
                    </docking:DockSite>

Thanks

[Modified at 03/29/2011 04:15 PM]

Posted 14 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Hi Billy,

The TitleBarButtons are located in the ControlTemplate of the ToolWindowContainer. You can use implicit Styles to set properties on the buttons. Otherwise, you'd need to retemplate ToolWindowContainer.

Actipro Software Support

Posted 14 years ago by Billy Jacobs

Please look at this image to see what I am still missing? I have 3 things described there.

Here are screenshots with my issues.

Can you send and example of how to fix these?

Thanks,

Billy Jacobs

[Modified at 04/05/2011 03:10 PM]

[Modified at 04/05/2011 03:11 PM]

[Modified at 04/05/2011 03:12 PM]

Posted 14 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Hi Billy,

Sorry, but we don't currently have a sample like that, a quick example would be to include this in your application resources:

<Style TargetType="{x:Type docking:TitleBarButton}">
<Setter Property="ForegroundActiveDisabled" Value="Red" />
<Setter Property="ForegroundActiveHover" Value="Red" />
<Setter Property="ForegroundActiveNormal" Value="Red" />
<Setter Property="ForegroundActivePressed" Value="Red" />
<Setter Property="ForegroundInactiveDisabled" Value="Red" />
<Setter Property="ForegroundInactiveHover" Value="Red" />
<Setter Property="ForegroundInactiveNormal" Value="Red" />
</Style>

The area around the tabbed MDI documents can be configured using an implicit Style for the TabbedMdiContainer that sets one or more of the Outline* properties.

Actipro Software Support

Posted 13 years ago by Andreas.Hassmann

Hello Actipro,

I ran into the same ArgumentException problem while trying to style a ToolWindowContainer.

Steps to reproduce:

Create a tree containing a ToolWindowContainer

Rightclick the container -> Edit template -> Edit a copy...

The resulting style can not be edited in Blend because of this strange Exception.

Do you see that, too?

Regards,

Andreas.

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

Hi Andreas,

Blend doesn't always clone styles and templates correctly, instead you should clone the template directly from our source. Since you are a WPF Studio customer the default styles are available to you in your account.

Actipro Software Support

Posted 13 years ago by Andreas.Hassmann

Great. But...Where? Cannot find it on the website...

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

Hi Andreas,

Sorry, we made a bit of a mistake on our end, I had thought you were already a customer. Before you can get the default styles you have to buy the product. If you buy the Studio then the styles will be available on your organization's account page, and if you own only Docking then you can email our support address and we will send you the select styles for docking. I apologize for the confusion.

Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v24.1.5) was released 1 month ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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