Start and Endpoint Binding in an Animation

[Alexander]

Hi Guys,

I have tried to make the start and end points dynamic and wanted to bind the Start and End point of an animation.
I have tried to bind it them to a Point or a String but in threw a XamlParseExecption

Xaml code looks like this:

<UserControl.Resources>
        <DataTemplate x:Name="OverlayTemplate">

                <Image Margin="24,0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Source="/Images/temp/simpleMarker.png" Stretch="None"/>

        </DataTemplate>

        <telerikCore:RadSlideAnimation  x:Name="OverlayContentDisplayAnimation" StartPoint="{Binding Path=StartPoint}" EndPoint="{Binding Path=EndPoint}" Duration="00:00:0.2"/>
    </UserControl.Resources>

in the ViewModel class there are the Properties. (of course I only had one of the Properties bound at a time)

private Point _startPoint;

        public String StartPoint
        {
            get
            {
                _startPoint.X = 200;
                _startPoint.Y = 200;
                return String.Format("{0},{1}", _startPoint.X, _startPoint.Y);
            }
        }

        private Point _endPoint;

        public Point EndPoint
        {
            get
            {
                _endPoint.X = 200;
                _endPoint.Y = 200;
                return _endPoint; }
            set
            {
                var oldVal = _endPoint;
                _endPoint = value;
                if (_endPoint != oldVal)
                    RaisePropertyChanged("EndPoint");
            }
        }

Does anybody know which data type is required to make the Binding work?

Thanks in advance

Alex

[Todor]

Hello Alexander,

Thank you for your question.

The reason for the exception is not the type of the property. It is the fact that the StartPoint and EndPoint properties are not Dependency Properties so they can't be used with binding. You can try to define different animations and choose to play the one that you wish depending on the data that you wanted to bind to.

Let me know if you need additional assistance.

Regards,
Todor
Telerik