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Ralf de Kleine
Ralf de Kleine

Reputation: 11734

Binding to the actual of a UserControl in Silverlight?

Seen some questions on SO but none answers my question.

What I want to accomplish: I have a custom control (lets call it A) which moves around the canvas using a storyboard. And I want to bind another custom control's canvas (lets call it B) position onto the first control.

Using the TransformToVisual(Application.Current.RootVisual) I can get the actual position of control A, but I can't figure out how to get a binding to B's Canvas.Left and Canvas.Top on this.

Has anyone figured out how to accomplish this task? Or get me pointed into the right direction?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 127

Answers (1)

ColinE
ColinE

Reputation: 70142

I presume you move the position of control A by updating its Canvas.Left and Canvas.Right properties? If this is the case, you do not need to use TransformToVisual, you can just bind their Canvas Top & Left properties together:

<Canvas >
  <TextBlock x:Name="ControlB"
             Text="Some Text"
             FontSize="15"
             Canvas.Left="{Binding ElementName=ControlA, Path=(Canvas.Left)}"
             Canvas.Top="{Binding ElementName=ControlA, Path=(Canvas.Top)}"/>
  <TextBlock x:Name="ControlA"
             Text="Some Text"
             FontSize="13"
             Canvas.Left="100"
             Canvas.Top="100"/>    
</Canvas>

Regards, Colin E.

Upvotes: 1

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