How can I bind the nested viewmodels to properties of a control
- by Robert
I used Microsoft's Chart Control of the WPF toolkit to write my own chart control.
I blogged about it here. My Chart control stacks the yaxes in the chart on top of each other. As you can read in the article this all works quite well. Now I want to create a viewmodel that controls the data and axes in the chart. So far I'm able to add axes to the chart and show them in the chart. But I have a problem when I try to add the lineseries because it has one DependentAxis and one InDependentAxis property. I don't know how to assign the proper xAxis and yAxis controls to it.
Below you see part of the LineSeriesViewModel. It has a nested XAxisViewModel and YAxisViewModel property.
public class LineSeriesViewModel : ViewModelBase, IChartComponent
{
XAxisViewModel _xAxis;
public XAxisViewModel XAxis
{
get { return _xAxis; }
set
{
_xAxis = value;
RaisePropertyChanged(() => XAxis);
}
}
//The YAxis Property look the same
}
The viewmodels all have their own datatemplate.
The xaml code looks like this:
<UserControl.Resources>
<DataTemplate x:Key="xAxisTemplate" DataType="{x:Type l:YAxisViewModel}">
<chart:LinearAxis x:Name="yAxis" Orientation="Y" Location="Left" Minimum="0" Maximum="10" IsHitTestVisible="False" Width="50" />
</DataTemplate>
<DataTemplate x:Key="yAxisTemplate" DataType="{x:Type l:XAxisViewModel}">
<chart:LinearAxis x:Name="xAxis" Orientation="X" Location="Bottom" Minimum="0" Maximum="100" IsHitTestVisible="False" Height="50" />
</DataTemplate>
<DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type l:LineSeriesViewModel}">
<!--Binding doesn't work on the Dependent and IndependentAxis! -->
<!--YAxis XAxis and Series are properties of the LineSeriesViewModel -->
<l:FastLineSeries DependentAxis="{Binding Path=YAxis}"
IndependentAxis="{Binding Path=XAxis}"
ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Series}"/>
</DataTemplate>
<Style TargetType="ItemsControl">
<Setter Property="ItemsPanel">
<Setter.Value>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<!--My stacked chart control -->
<l:StackedPanel x:Name="stackedPanel" Width="Auto" Height="Auto" Background="LightBlue">
</l:StackedPanel>
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
</UserControl.Resources>
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" ClipToBounds="True">
<!-- View is an ObservableCollection of all axes and series-->
<ItemsControl x:Name="chartItems" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=View}" Focusable="False">
</ItemsControl>
</Grid>
This code works quite well. When I add axes they get drawn. But the DependentAxis and InDependentAxis of the lineseries control stay null, so the series doesn't get drawn. How can I bind the nested viewmodels to the properties of a control?
