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Paul McDowell
Paul McDowell

Reputation: 144

Building a canvas template in WP7

    I'm attempting to build a golf game tracking program that uses a canvas to hold an arranged set of buttons and databound items for each player. Because the number of people in a game is dynamic, I need to be able to build the canvases on the fly and bind them on the fly as well. the problem I'm having is setting up the databinding. If I attempt to bind in code then the text for the binding (text={Binding}) always comes out as though it were a string literal instead of an actual binding. To get around this I attempted to build a template of the canvas, but I can't find a way to actually apply the template to a new canvas as I build out new players.

    So with all that in mind, what is the best way to either A) build a template canvas with all my controls so I can just copy and bind to each player, or B) build the text bindings dynamically without having to resort to XAML?

Edit: The following was added for clarification on how I'm creating a textblock. 

TextBlock newBlock = new TextBlock
        {
            Text = "{Binding}",
            FontSize = 42,
            DataContext = Player.SomeStat,
            Name = Player.PlayerName ,

        };

The value shown on the screen for the textblock (instead of what it should be) is: {Binding}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 244

Answers (2)

blins
blins

Reputation: 2535

Assuming you want to bind to the datacontext of the Control instance your code lives in...

textBlock.SetBinding(TextBlock.TextProperty, new Binding("Foo"));
textBlock.DataContext = this.DataContext;

Upvotes: 0

HDW Production
HDW Production

Reputation: 1402

To create a Binding in code you need to go some extra steps:

object myDataObject = DataContext;
Binding myBinding = new Binding();
myBinding.Source = myDataObject;
myBinding.Path="."; // not sure if required
newBlock.SetBinding(TextBlock.TextProperty, myBinding);

Upvotes: 1

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