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jglouie
jglouie

Reputation: 12880

How to build this auto-growing WPF window?

I'm struggling with how to build this window in WPF.

The window has a Text Block whose contents are not known at design time. The Window should grow vertically to make the entire Text Block visible

I've tried a hierarchy similar to:

Window (auto height)
    Stack Panel (vertical orientation)
        Text Block
        Check Box
        Grid (for precise positioning of the buttons)
            Button 1
            Button 2

Is this a reasonable hierarchy? Is there a better way to build this?

Desired Window

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2578

Answers (2)

Mark Hall
Mark Hall

Reputation: 54552

What you are doing should work fine. You will want to make sure that you use the SizeToContent Property on your parent Window. Something like this:

XAML

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="MainWindow"  Width="525" SizeToContent="Height">
    <Grid Height="auto" >
        <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" >
            <TextBlock Name="tb1" TextAlignment="Justify" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="" />
            <Grid Height="30">
                <CheckBox VerticalAlignment="Center" Name="Random">Random CheckBox</CheckBox>
            </Grid>
            <Grid Height="auto">
                <Button Name="button1" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,0,80,0" Width="70" Height="30" Click="button1_Click" />
                <Button Name="Button2" HorizontalAlignment="Right"  Width="70" Height="30" Click="Button2_Click" />
            </Grid>
        </StackPanel>
    </Grid>
</Window>

**CodeBehind"

private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        tb1.Text += "TextBlock with contentes set at run-time. " + 
                     "This text block should grow in height as necessary, " + 
                     "and push the other controls down.  The window itself " +
                     "should grow to \n\n Another paragraph\n";
    }

Upvotes: 4

Charleh
Charleh

Reputation: 14002

Looks ok to me, assuming you want the button controls to sit just under the text box, stack panels don't automatically fill parent controls. have you tried this layout yet and run into problems or is this a hypothetical question?

Upvotes: 0

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