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Tech Off - WPF : anchor doesn't work?

Turrican — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:05:26 GMT

I set statusbar HAlign to stretch and VAlign to bottom but...

Tech Off - WPF : anchor doesn't work?

John — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:18:09 GMT

Try Width="Auto"

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Turrican — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:23:06 GMT

jh71283 said:
Try Width="Auto"

Thanks, it worked. But omfg, WPF sucks big time so far. Totally unnatural/unlogical compared to what "we are used to" from winforms.

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JonathonW — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:26:29 GMT

turrican said:

jh71283 said:

*snip*

Thanks, it worked. But omfg, WPF sucks big time so far. Totally unnatural/unlogical compared to what "we are used to" from winforms.

FWIW, if you don't specify a width at all (and no other positioning/sizing properties besides the height and vertical alignment at the bottom), WPF will make the status bar automatically resize like you'd expect it to. This is the XAML generated by Blend for a window only containing a status bar, and it resizes as expected:

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    x:Class="TestStatusbar.Window1"
    x:Name="Window"
    Title="Window1"
    Width="640" Height="480">

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brian.shapiro — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:33:23 GMT

CannotResolveSymbol said:

turrican said:

*snip*

FWIW, if you don't specify a width at all (and no other positioning/sizing properties besides the height and vertical alignment at the bottom), WPF will make the status bar automatically resize like you'd expect it to. This is the XAML generated by Blend for a window only containing a status bar, and it resizes as expected:

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    x:Class="TestStatusbar.Window1"
    x:Name="Window"
    Title="Window1"
    Width="640" Height="480">

CannotResolveSymbol,

wouldn't it make sense to use a DockPanel instead of a Grid

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JonathonW — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:42:18 GMT

brian.shapiro said:

CannotResolveSymbol said:

*snip*

CannotResolveSymbol,

wouldn't it make sense to use a DockPanel instead of a Grid

Probably, but I was just seeing what Blend spat out when I tried to make a status bar, so I didn't bother to put it in a DockPanel (Blend projects start out with a Grid in the document).