Am I going about this the right way?
- by Psytronic
Hey Guys,
I'm starting a WPF project, and just finished the base of the UI, it seems very convoluted though, so I'm not sure if I've gone around laying it out in the right way. I don't want to get to start developing the back-end and realise that I've done the front wrong, and make life harder for myself.
Coming from a background of <DIV's and CSS to style this is a lot different, and really want to get it right from the start.
Essentially it's a one week calendar (7 days, Mon-Sunday, defaulting to the current week.) Which will eventually link up to a DB and if I have an appointment for something on this day it will show it in the relevant day.
I've opted for a Grid rather than ListView because of the way it will work I will not be binding the results to a collection or anything along those lines. Rather I will be filling out a Combo box within the canvas for each day (yet to be placed in the code) for each event and on selection it will show me further details.
XAML:
<Window x:Class="WOW_Widget.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:s="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"
xmlns:Extensions="clr-namespace:WOW_Widget"
DataContext="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}}"
Title="Window1" Height="239" Width="831"
<Window.Resources
<LinearGradientBrush x:Key="NormalBrush" StartPoint="0,0" EndPoint="0,1"
<GradientBrush.GradientStops
<GradientStopCollection
<GradientStop Offset="1.0" Color="White"/
<GradientStop Offset="0.0" Color="LightSlateGray"/
</GradientStopCollection
</GradientBrush.GradientStops
</LinearGradientBrush
<LinearGradientBrush x:Key="grdDayHeader" StartPoint="0,0" EndPoint="0,1"
<GradientBrush.GradientStops
<GradientStopCollection
<GradientStop Offset="0.0" Color="Peru" /
<GradientStop Offset="1.0" Color="White" /
</GradientStopCollection
</GradientBrush.GradientStops
</LinearGradientBrush
<LinearGradientBrush x:Key="grdToday" StartPoint="0,0" EndPoint="0,1"
<GradientBrush.GradientStops
<GradientStopCollection
<GradientStop Offset="0.0" Color="LimeGreen"/
<GradientStop Offset="1.0" Color="DarkGreen" /
</GradientStopCollection
</GradientBrush.GradientStops
</LinearGradientBrush
<Style TargetType="{x:Type GridViewColumnHeader}"
<Setter Property="Background" Value="Khaki" /
</Style
<Style x:Key="DayHeader" TargetType="{x:Type Label}"
<Setter Property="Background" Value="{StaticResource grdDayHeader}" /
<Setter Property="Width" Value="111" /
<Setter Property="Height" Value="25" /
<Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Center" /
</Style
<Style x:Key="DayField"
<Setter Property="Canvas.Width" Value="111" /
<Setter Property="Canvas.Height" Value="60" /
<Setter Property="Canvas.Background" Value="White" /
</Style
<Style x:Key="Today"
<Setter Property="Canvas.Background" Value="{StaticResource grdToday}" /
</Style
<Style x:Key="CalendarColSpacer"
<Setter Property="Canvas.Width" Value="1" /
<Setter Property="Canvas.Background" Value="Black" /
</Style
<Style x:Key="CalendarRowSpacer"
<Setter Property="Canvas.Height" Value="1" /
<Setter Property="Canvas.Background" Value="Black" /
</Style
</Window.Resources
<Grid Background="{StaticResource NormalBrush}"
<Border BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1" Width="785" Height="86" Margin="12,12,12,104"
<Canvas Height="86" Width="785" VerticalAlignment="Top"
<Grid
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions
<ColumnDefinition /
<ColumnDefinition /
<ColumnDefinition /
<ColumnDefinition /
<ColumnDefinition /
<ColumnDefinition /
<ColumnDefinition /
<ColumnDefinition /
<ColumnDefinition /
<ColumnDefinition /
<ColumnDefinition /
<ColumnDefinition /
<ColumnDefinition /
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions
<Grid.RowDefinitions
<RowDefinition /
<RowDefinition /
<RowDefinition /
</Grid.RowDefinitions
<Label Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" Content="Monday" Style="{StaticResource DayHeader}" /
<Canvas Grid.Column="1" Grid.RowSpan="3" Grid.Row="0" Style="{StaticResource CalendarColSpacer}" /
<Label Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="0" Content="Tuesday" Style="{StaticResource DayHeader}" /
<Canvas Grid.Column="3" Grid.RowSpan="3" Grid.Row="0" Style="{StaticResource CalendarColSpacer}" /
<Label Grid.Column="4" Grid.Row="0" Content="Wednesday" Style="{StaticResource DayHeader}" /
<Canvas Grid.Column="5" Grid.RowSpan="3" Grid.Row="0" Style="{StaticResource CalendarColSpacer}" /
<Label Grid.Column="6" Grid.Row="0" Content="Thursday" Style="{StaticResource DayHeader}" /
<Canvas Grid.Column="7" Grid.RowSpan="3" Grid.Row="0" Style="{StaticResource CalendarColSpacer}" /
<Label Grid.Column="8" Grid.Row="0" Content="Friday" Style="{StaticResource DayHeader}" /
<Canvas Grid.Column="9" Grid.RowSpan="3" Grid.Row="0" Style="{StaticResource CalendarColSpacer}" /
<Label Grid.Column="10" Grid.Row="0" Content="Saturday" Style="{StaticResource DayHeader}" /
<Canvas Grid.Column="11" Grid.RowSpan="3" Grid.Row="0" Style="{StaticResource CalendarColSpacer}" /
<Label Grid.Column="12" Grid.Row="0" Content="Sunday" Style="{StaticResource DayHeader}" /
<Canvas Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="13" Grid.Row="1" Style="{StaticResource CalendarRowSpacer}" /
<Canvas Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="2" Margin="0" Style="{StaticResource DayField}"
<Label Name="lblMondayDate" /
</Canvas
<Canvas Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="2" Margin="0" Style="{StaticResource DayField}"
<Label Name="lblTuesdayDate" /
</Canvas
<Canvas Grid.Column="4" Grid.Row="2" Margin="0" Style="{StaticResource DayField}"
<Label Name="lblWednesdayDate" /
</Canvas
<Canvas Grid.Column="6" Grid.Row="2" Margin="0" Style="{StaticResource DayField}"
<Label Name="lblThursdayDate" /
</Canvas
<Canvas Grid.Column="8" Grid.Row="2" Margin="0" Style="{StaticResource DayField}"
<Label Name="lblFridayDate" /
</Canvas
<Canvas Grid.Column="10" Grid.Row="2" Margin="0" Style="{StaticResource DayField}"
<Label Name="lblSaturdayDate" /
</Canvas
<Canvas Grid.Column="12" Grid.Row="2" Margin="0" Style="{StaticResource DayField}"
<Label Name="lblSundayDate" /
</Canvas
</Grid
</Canvas
</Border
<Canvas Height="86" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,0,12,12" Name="canvas1" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Width="198"</Canvas
</Grid
</Window
CS:
public partial class Window1 : Window {
private DateTime today = new DateTime();
private Label[] Dates = new Label[7];
public Window1() {
DateTime start = today = DateTime.Now;
int day = (int)today.DayOfWeek;
while (day != 1) {
start = start.Subtract(new TimeSpan(1, 0, 0, 0));
day--;
}
InitializeComponent();
Dates[0] = lblMondayDate;
Dates[1] = lblTuesdayDate;
Dates[2] = lblWednesdayDate;
Dates[3] = lblThursdayDate;
Dates[4] = lblFridayDate;
Dates[5] = lblSaturdayDate;
Dates[6] = lblSundayDate;
FillWeek(start);
}
private void FillWeek(DateTime start) {
for (int d = 0; d < Dates.Length; d++) {
TimeSpan td = new TimeSpan(d, 0, 0, 0);
DateTime _day = start.Add(td);
if (_day.Date == today.Date) {
Canvas dayCanvas = (Canvas)Dates[d].Parent;
dayCanvas.Style = (Style)this.Resources["Today"];
}
Dates[d].Content = (int)start.Add(td).Day;
}
}
}
Thanks for any tips you guys can give
Psytronic
