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totoro
totoro

Reputation: 3407

grouping controls together in WPF

I am building a WPF app that needs to display a list of filenames and their corresponding controls. Right now I have a Grid with some columns (i.e. Column 1 is a TextBlock for a filename, column 2 is a CheckBox indicating if this file is chosen, etc., and there is one row for each filename.)

It works except when a control in row i is triggered, I have to search through the entire Grid to find other controls in row i and change them accordingly. Is there a natural way to group the controls in a single row together so that it's easy to find one given another?

Note: By natural, I mean something builtin WPF. Constructing a UnionFind for this wouldn't be considered natural.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3133

Answers (1)

coder0815
coder0815

Reputation: 219

FI suggest to use an ItemsControl. Something like this

<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding Files}">
    <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
        <ItemsPanelTemplate>
            <StackPanel />
        </ItemsPanelTemplate>
    </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
    <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
                <Label Content="{Binding FileName}" />
                <CheckBox IsChecked="{Binding IsSelected}"/>
            </StackPanel>
        </DataTemplate>
    </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>

With a List<MyModel> or ObservableCollection<MyModel of your model as the ItemsSource

public class MyModel
{
    public string FileName { get; set; }
    // And so on ...
}

Upvotes: 1

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