Suggestion - Padding

[ManniAT]

Hi,

I'm using a WrapPanel in a JumpList as group selector.
For some reasons I want to "dim" the background so I gave the WrapPanel a background brush.
Setting a margin helps to place my Items where I want them (a bit away from the screen border), but - this also brings "undimmed" borders.

And (the first idea) to surround the WrapPanel with a border / grid didn't work since the jump list searches an itemspanel in the templates root.
Next Idea - change the wrappanel style - no success it has no style :)
So I ended with styling the JumpList.

For this (and I guess also for other situations) a Padding property could help a lot.
And (maybe someone needs this) if you implement this by using a container - you could use a border - which would allow to set a border stroke also - not important for me (I thinks WP7 design is "borderless" :)) - but who knows...

Regards
Manfred

[Deyan]

Hi Manniat,

I would like to kindly ask you to send us a sample project that we can use to reproduce the undesired behavior you experience and try to workaround it for you. You will have to open a new support ticket to attach your files.

Thanks for your time.

Regards,
Deyan
the Telerik team

[ManniAT]

Hi,

you can check this out with the app I sent you (about JumpList last week) - I simply "fixed" the problem by modifying the JumpList Template.

To reproduce it - use WrapPanel in a JumpList Group template.
Add "smaller elements" (quadratic in my case - so to have all lines on one screen i reduce width.

The result - a panel which (let's say) looks like this:
ppppppppsssss
ppppppppsssss
ppppppppsssss
So it is less wide than the screen.
Now you can fix this by adding a margin. which results in
sssppppppppsss
sssppppppppsss
sssppppppppsss
Fine so far - but now add a background to it.
The "free space (ssss)" will not get a color - since it is margin.
Which means that the underlying screen is visible on both sides of the panel.
If you try to place the WrapPanel in a border (or grid or another container) JumpList will argue about "I need a panel control as root".

Since space consumed by padding would get the elements background color - a padding property could fix the problem.

Manfred

[Deyan]

Hello Manniat,

Thanks for writing back.

In general, in these cases adding a specialized property is not a good idea. The better approach is to modify the template by applying a new style that contains the required setters or modifying the control's tempate (as you already did).

We can consider exposing a GroupPickerStyle property which allows for directly setting a style for the popup though.

Kind regards,
Deyan
the Telerik team