Two bugs related to maximizing and resizing in UI for Silverlight Window

hwsoderlund

419 posts

Member since:
Aug 2006

Posted 08 Sep 2009 Link to this post

Hi, please take a look at the following sample project. It demonstrates two bugs that I found. I've included instructions on how to reproduce the bugs in the project.

http://cid-cc43a90a79374ebd.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/SilverlightApplication41.zip

I'm using the latest internal build (2009_2_904).

Best regards,
/Henrik

Miroslav Nedyalkov

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Posted 08 Sep 2009 Link to this post

Hi Henrik,

Thank you for reporting us these issues. We will fix the maximize problem as soon as we can. The fix will be included in one of the next latest internal builds.

The second problem is not really a bug, but expected behavior - as the Width and Height of the Window are initially double.NaN, it will be as big as its content needs to be. The strange behavior happens because of the UserControl in it. If you resize the window its width and height are explicitly set and its content cannot resize it any more.

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hwsoderlund

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Member since:
Aug 2006

Posted 08 Sep 2009 Link to this post

Ok. First of all, thanks for looking at the maximize bug. Secondly, while I understand that the window by default will be as big as its content requires it to be, I cannot understand why moving a gridsplitter in a layout grid would make the parent usercontrol need more space in the surrounding window. But perhaps I'm missing something. Please explain further if you can.

Thanks,
/Henrik

Valeri Hristov

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Posted 09 Sep 2009 Link to this post

Hello Henrik,

This is how the ContentControl works by default. I don't know if this is good or bad but we use this functionality as it is. Here is a small example that simplifies the scenario:

    
            <ContentControl> 
        
                <Grid Background="Red"> 
        
                    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> 
        
                        <ColumnDefinition /> 
        
                        <ColumnDefinition Width="350" /> 
        
                    </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> 
        
                    <Button Content="Left" Grid.Column="0" Margin="0 0 4 0" /> 
        
                    <swc:GridSplitter Grid.Column="0" Width="4" HorizontalAlignment="Right" 
        
                            VerticalAlignment="Stretch" /> 
        
                    <Button Content="Right" Grid.Column="1" /> 
        
                </Grid> 
        
            </ContentControl>

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