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Steve Crane
Steve Crane

Reputation: 4440

Determine path dynamically in Silverlight 2

I have a border with rounded corners within a canvas and want to add a clipping region to the canvas so that anything I add is clipped to the region within the border. I know that I can set the Clip property of the canvas but as the canvas and object are sized dynamically rather than having sizes assigned in the XAML, I can't figure out how to calculate the path to use. Is there some way to derive a PathGeometry from a UIElement (the border in this case)? If not what is the best way to approach this? Here is the XAML for the test page I'm working with.

<UserControl x:Class="TimelinePrototype.Page"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" 
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <RowDefinition Height="auto" />
        <RowDefinition />
    </Grid.RowDefinitions>
    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="10">
        <Button x:Name="cmdDraw" FontSize="18" Click="cmdDraw_Click" Content="Draw" Margin="0,0,5,0" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" />
        <TextBlock x:Name="txtDateRange" FontSize="18" Margin="10,0,10,10" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" />
    </StackPanel>
    <Canvas x:Name="TimelineCanvas" Grid.Row="1" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" 
                SizeChanged="TimelineCanvas_SizeChanged">
        <Border x:Name="TimelineBorder" 
                Background="LightGray" 
                BorderBrush="Black" 
                BorderThickness="2" 
                CornerRadius="15" 
                Margin="10"
                Grid.Row="1"
                VerticalAlignment="Top">
        </Border>
    </Canvas>
</Grid>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 921

Answers (3)

Zone12
Zone12

Reputation: 127

Try blacklight

The blacklight toolpack has a rounded corner clipping tool and is free.

Upvotes: 0

Steve Crane
Steve Crane

Reputation: 4440

I ended up using this code, but would still be interested in any alternate methods.

RectangleGeometry clipRect = new RectangleGeometry();
clipRect.Rect = new Rect(TimelineBorder.Margin.Left, TimelineBorder.Margin.Top, TimelineCanvas.ActualWidth - (TimelineBorder.Margin.Left + TimelineBorder.Margin.Right), TimelineCanvas.ActualHeight - (TimelineBorder.Margin.Top + TimelineBorder.Margin.Bottom));
clipRect.RadiusX = TimelineBorder.CornerRadius.TopLeft;
clipRect.RadiusY = TimelineBorder.CornerRadius.TopLeft;
TimelineCanvas.Clip = clipRect;

Upvotes: 0

bendewey
bendewey

Reputation: 40245

Try using the ActualHeight and ActualWidth properties

var height = TimelineCanvas.ActualHeight;
var width = TimelineCanvas.ActualWidth;

Upvotes: 1

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