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Ricardinho
Ricardinho

Reputation: 53

Is it possible to apply star sizing with a stackpanel like you do with a grid in xaml?

With a grid, i can say that i want one element to take up 3/4 of the page and one to take up 1/3 of the page by using width = "3*" and width = "1*"

Is it possible to do the same with Stackpanels? Or is the only way to do it by placing the stackpanels inside a grid?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 622

Answers (1)

Sheridan
Sheridan

Reputation: 69959

In the .NET Framework, there are a number of different Panel classes. Some of them like the Grid and DockPanel provide resizing capabilities that resize the Panel children, while others don't. Generally, the ones that provide this functionality have a cost in terms of CPU and/or RAM.

Therefore, when requiring a Panel for simple layout purposes, these Panel types should be avoided and a simple StackPanel should be used instead. Other times, we require this extra functionality and so we should use one of these more expensive Panels.

Please see the Panels Overview page on MSDN for a much fuller description of the .NET Panels.

So, to actually answer your question(s), no, a StackPanel cannot use similar sizing capabilities as the Grid and you can't do what you want even if you place StackPanels inside a Grid because although the Grid's cells may change size when the parent is resized, the StackPanels contained within will not.

Upvotes: 1

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