RC0 & ContentPresenter

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re: RC0 & ContentPresenter

eXistenZ — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:14:54 GMT

Like Psychlist1972 said this is kind of contradictory to the idea of a style. On the other hand I can see that the content needed to be styled on the template level as a button can have any content in silverlight. So microsoft should just consider a template set, runntime overwrite model. Set the style for the content in the template but nevertheless you can overwrite it on a runntime object or in the corresponding xaml.

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re: RC0 & ContentPresenter

royhiggs — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:20:29 GMT

Also, Button doesn't have TextWrapping or TextAlignment properties so how should those be set in a button template using ContentPresenter?

re: RC0 & ContentPresenter

royhiggs — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:41:32 GMT

I think it does make sense to want to style the content of a button inside your button style. That way if you want to have a button control that reuses the same style across your application you can define it in the button style and not require the developer to set the font settings every time they use the button. That is the whole point of a style.

This wouldn't be so bad except that in Silverlight there is no BasedOn so I can't even add a style to the content presenter resources for the TextBlock that is based on my standard style for my buttons. So now I'm relegated to copy/paste which seems to just defeat the whole purpose of being able to have styles.

I guess I'll have to go back to the drawing board to figure out how to get consistent buttons in my application.

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re: RC0 & ContentPresenter

Psychlist1972 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:39:43 GMT

Hi Jesse

I'd like to point out a use that I don't consider a design flaw: providing VSM styles for buttons. In those, I had the properties on the content presenter, but they were bound to properties of the control itself. (That was the default behavior when creating the style using vsm). They weren't hard-coded in the style.

Now I need to find another way to get the textblock inside the button to have the correct alignment, font etc. as alignment infomration is no longer available at the button level and the rest of the required values do not currently appear to cascade down to the CP properly.

Haven't tried any of the obvious workarounds yet (or regenerating the style using RC0), but will when I get a second. Unfortunately, some of those workarounds would restrict the button to only the content I specifically put in the style. Not great there, and defeats the purpose of the contentpresenter.

Pete