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Shared Controlz for WPF and ... more
https://github.com/ControlzEx/ControlzEx
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Shared Controlz for WPF and ... more
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ControlzEx/ControlzEx
- Owner: ControlzEx
- License: mit
- Created: 2015-10-10T09:38:46.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: develop
- Last Pushed: 2024-04-24T05:31:54.000Z (5 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-01T22:30:47.917Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: control, controlzex, fluentribbon, hacktoberfest, icon-pack, mahapps, open-source, oss, shell, tooltips, windowchrome, windows, wpf, xaml
- Language: C#
- Homepage:
- Size: 13.4 MB
- Stars: 926
- Watchers: 48
- Forks: 113
- Open Issues: 12
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
Awesome Lists containing this project
- awesome-wpf - ControlzEx - (FREE, OPEN SOURCE) Shared Controlz for WPF. (UI Controls / Control Suites)
README
ControlzEx
Shared Controlz for WPF
Supporting .NET Framework (4.5.2, 4.6.2 and greater), .NET Core (3.1) and .NET 5 (on Windows)
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## Let's get started
- [Releases and Release Notes](../../releases)
- [Building](../../wiki/Home) the ControlzEx solution
## TextBoxInputMaskBehavior
The `TextBoxInputMaskBehavior` can be used to show a mask inside a `TextBox`.
Note: It's only a mask and does not validate your text.
```xml
```
The original TextBoxInputMaskBehavior was taken from from Blindmeis's Blog.
- [https://blindmeis.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/wpf-textbox-input-behavior/](https://blindmeis.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/wpf-textbox-input-behavior/)
- [https://blindmeis.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/wpf-masked-textbox-behavior/](https://blindmeis.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/wpf-masked-textbox-behavior/)
## KeyboardNavigationEx
The `KeyboardNavigationEx` is a helper class for a common focusing problem.
The focus of an UI element itself isn't the problem. But if we use the common focusing methods, the control gets the focus, but it doesn't get the focus visual style.
The original `KeyboardNavigation` class handles the visual style only if the control gets the focus from a keyboard device or if the SystemParameters.KeyboardCues is true.
With `KeyboardNavigationEx` you can fix this in two simple ways.
In code behind:
```csharp
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
this.Loaded += (s, e) => { KeyboardNavigationEx.Focus(this.TheElementWhichShouldGetTheFocus); };
}
}
```
or in XAML:
```xaml
Hey, I get the focus visual style on mouse click!
```
## AutoMove ToolTip
An auto moving ToolTip. More [Info](https://jkarger.de/2014/11/02/how-to-make-the-tooltip-follow-the-mouse/).
```xaml
```
## GlowWindowBehavior
The `GlowWindowBehavior` adds a Glow around your window.
Starting with Windows 11 the behavior can be used to control the color of the native window border and automatically does so, when Windows 11 is detected.
This can be turned off by setting `PreferDWMBorder` to `false`.
## WindowChromeBehavior
ControlzEx provides a custom chrome for WPF windows and some other deeper fixes for it.
What it does provide:
- Draw anywhere inside the window (including the titlebar)
- Supports every `WindowStyle` (`None`, `SingleBorderWindow`, `ThreeDBorderWindow` and `ToolWindow`)
- Supports jitter free window resizes
- Allows you to ignore the taskbar when the window is maximized
- Provides an `IsNCActive` property
- Mitigates a bug in Windows that causes newly shown windows to briefly be shown with a pure white background
- Starting with Windows 11:
- Allows you to control rounded corners (through `CornerPreference`)
- Supports snap menu on window buttons (through attached properties like `NonClientControlProperties.HitTestResult` and `NonClientControlProperties.ClickStrategy`)
Most of the fixes and improvements are from [MahApps.Metro](https://github.com/MahApps/MahApps.Metro) and [Fluent.Ribbon](https://github.com/fluentribbon/Fluent.Ribbon).
Concrete implementation of techniques described here:
[Blog entry from Microsoft on custom Window chrome](https://web.archive.org/web/20150221141007/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wpfsdk/archive/2008/09/08/custom-window-chrome-in-wpf.aspx)
It's a fork of the original Microsoft WPF Shell Integration Library. Current Microsoft's implementation can be found:
- [https://github.com/dotnet/wpf](https://github.com/dotnet/wpf)
- [http://referencesource.microsoft.com](http://referencesource.microsoft.com)
## PopupEx
Custom `Popup` that can be used in validation error templates or something else like in [MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit](https://github.com/ButchersBoy/MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit) or [MahApps.Metro](https://github.com/MahApps/MahApps.Metro).
`PopupEx` provides some additional nice features:
- repositioning if host-window size or location changed
- repositioning if host-window gets maximized and vice versa
- it's only topmost if the host-window is activated
## TabControlEx
Custom `TabControl` that keeps the `TabItem` content in the VisualTree while unselecting them, so no re-create nightmare is done, after selecting the `TabItem` again. The visibility behavior can be set by `ChildContentVisibility` dependency property.
Usage:
```xaml
```
## PackIconBase
A base class to help drive a common method for creating icon packs in WPF.
To create a new icon pack follow these steps:
Define a key (typically an ```enum```):
```csharp
public enum PackIconKind
{
Happy,
Sad
}
```
Subclass ```PackIconBase```, adding
- Default style key
- A factory providing Path data for each key
```csharp
public class PackIcon : PackIconBase
{
static PackIcon()
{
DefaultStyleKeyProperty.OverrideMetadata(typeof(PackIcon), new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(typeof(PackIcon)));
}
public PackIcon() : base(CreateIconData)
{ }
private static IDictionary CreateIconData()
{
return new Dictionary
{
{PackIconKind.Happy, "M20,12A8,8 0 0,0 12,4A8,8 0 0,0 4,12A8,8 0 0,0 12,20A8,8 0 0,0 20,12M22,12A10,10 0 0,1 12,22A10,10 0 0,1 2,12A10,10 0 0,1 12,2A10,10 0 0,1 22,12M10,9.5C10,10.3 9.3,11 8.5,11C7.7,11 7,10.3 7,9.5C7,8.7 7.7,8 8.5,8C9.3,8 10,8.7 10,9.5M17,9.5C17,10.3 16.3,11 15.5,11C14.7,11 14,10.3 14,9.5C14,8.7 14.7,8 15.5,8C16.3,8 17,8.7 17,9.5M12,17.23C10.25,17.23 8.71,16.5 7.81,15.42L9.23,14C9.68,14.72 10.75,15.23 12,15.23C13.25,15.23 14.32,14.72 14.77,14L16.19,15.42C15.29,16.5 13.75,17.23 12,17.23Z"},
{PackIconKind.Sad, "M20,12A8,8 0 0,0 12,4A8,8 0 0,0 4,12A8,8 0 0,0 12,20A8,8 0 0,0 20,12M22,12A10,10 0 0,1 12,22A10,10 0 0,1 2,12A10,10 0 0,1 12,2A10,10 0 0,1 22,12M15.5,8C16.3,8 17,8.7 17,9.5C17,10.3 16.3,11 15.5,11C14.7,11 14,10.3 14,9.5C14,8.7 14.7,8 15.5,8M10,9.5C10,10.3 9.3,11 8.5,11C7.7,11 7,10.3 7,9.5C7,8.7 7.7,8 8.5,8C9.3,8 10,8.7 10,9.5M12,14C13.75,14 15.29,14.72 16.19,15.81L14.77,17.23C14.32,16.5 13.25,16 12,16C10.75,16 9.68,16.5 9.23,17.23L7.81,15.81C8.71,14.72 10.25,14 12,14Z"}
};
}
}
```
Provide a default style (typically in your Generic.xaml, e.g:
```xaml
<Setter Property="Height" Value="16" />
<Setter Property="Width" Value="16" />
<Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Left" />
<Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Top" />
<Setter Property="IsTabStop" Value="False" />
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type local:PackIcon}">
<Viewbox>
<Canvas Width="24" Height="24">
<Path Data="{Binding Data, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}"
Fill="{TemplateBinding Foreground}" />
</Canvas>
</Viewbox>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
```
Your users should now have a simple way to use your icon pack in their applications:
```xaml
```
## Theming
ControlzEx provides a `ThemeManager` which helps you to provide Theming to your App.
For more information see [this section](Wiki/ThemeManager.md).
## Licence
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) since 2015 Jan Karger, Bastian Schmidt, James Willock
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.