I whould like to have a menu like the following:
┌──────────────────────────┐
│ MenuItem always the same │
│ <Separator /> │
│ MenuItem read from XML 1 │
│ MenuItem read from XML 2 │
│ MenuItem read from XML n │
└──────────────────────────┘
And this should be reused in a MainMenu and as a submenu of a ContextMenu also.
I currently have the following in the XAML:
<Window.Resources>
<XmlDataProvider x:Key="ItemTypes" Source="C:\Config.xml"
XPath="Configuration/ItemTypes/ItemType" />
<collections:ArrayList x:Key="mnuAdd" x:Shared="False">
<MenuItem Command="local:MainWindow.AddItemGroup" Header="Item Group" />
<Separator />
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource ItemTypes}}" />
</collections:ArrayList>
</Window.Resources>
And have the following in the XML:
<Configuration>
<ItemTypes>
<ItemTypeName="Item1" DisplayName="First Item" />
<ItemTypeName="Item2" DisplayName="Second Item" />
</ItemTypes>
</Configuration>
And of course I have HierarchicalDataTemplate, but it never displays right.
If I set it to this one:
<HierarchicalDataTemplate DataType="ItemType">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding XPath=@DisplayName, StringFormat={}{0}}"
Tag="{Binding XPath=@Name}" MouseLeftButtonUp="AddItemMenu_Click"
MouseRightButtonUp="AddItemMenu_Click" />
</HierarchicalDataTemplate>
It displays this way:
If I set it to this one:
<HierarchicalDataTemplate DataType="ItemType">
<MenuItem Header="{Binding XPath=@DisplayName, StringFormat={}{0}}"
Tag="{Binding XPath=@Name}" MouseLeftButtonUp="AddItemMenu_Click"
MouseRightButtonUp="AddItemMenu_Click" />
</HierarchicalDataTemplate>
It displays this way:
How can I style it to display correctly as normal menu items?
Please not that according to previous research, having <collections:ArrayList x:Key="mnuAdd" x:Shared="False">
is mandatory as I want the same static resource to be displayed both in MainMenu and in ContextMenu. If I don't use this, one of them disappears.
UPDATE 1:
According to H.B. changed the <collections:ArrayList>
to CompositeCollection
:
<CompositeCollection x:Key="mnuAdd" x:Shared="False">
<MenuItem Command="local:MainWindow.AddItemGroup" Header="Item Group" />
<Separator />
<CollectionContainer Collection="{Binding Source={StaticResource ItemTypes}}" />
</CompositeCollection>
Now if my DataTemplate is MenuItem
, it still displays awkward:
If my DataTemplate is TextBlock
, it displays fine, but the clicks are only handled if it is on the text, not if it is a little left from the text.
How can I make it work good and look good?
Edit 2:
Managed to solved the click issue by extending the TextBlock
horizontally by the following:
<DataTemplate DataType="ItemType">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding XPath=@DisplayName, StringFormat={}{0}}"
Tag="{Binding XPath=@Name}" MouseLeftButtonUp="AddItemMenu_Click"
MouseRightButtonUp="AddTestItemMenu_Click"
Margin="-30,0,-60,0" Padding="30,0,60,0" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" />
</DataTemplate>
Now it looks good and works well.