I am creating a style that changes a ControlTemplate of a Button (it actually adds arrow on the right, so that the button looks like dropdown button (which is missing in wpf)).
Inside of template, I put the actual button (because I need the result to still be like button - I could change only ContentTemplate, but I need to display the actual content together with arrow, and putting ContentPresenter inside ContentTemplate yields stack overflow - wpf just expands the template into the presenter and goes on and on), together with arrow.
My problem is that I would like the user to be able to change button's background, so I need to bind Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"
. With this, the user would have to always provide the background, otherwise it would be null.
To prevent this, I understand I need to provide default value for the background, so I added <Setter Property="Background" Value="default Background goes here"/>
The question is, what should be a value of this setter? I assume that wpf's built-in styles are loaded automatically for every application, and I have looked into aero.normalcolor.xaml, where they provide ButtonNormalBackground
style, and later use it as default button style <Setter Property="Background" Value="{StaticResource ButtonNormalBackground}"/>
(aero.normalcolor.xaml, line 47).
Exactly what I wanted, however, when I use this setter, the static resource is not found. I then changed it to DynamicResource, but in that case, the button's background stays transparent - the ButtonNormalBackground isn't used!
How should I provide system's button look as default value? Thank you!
PS: dtto for BorderBrush, BorderThickness - geez, it seems that I am not allowed the tricks that WPF authors use all the time :/
My style:
<Style TargetType="{x:Type ToggleButton}" x:Key="DropDownArrowStyle">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="{StaticResource ButtonNormalBackground}"/>
<Setter Property="ToggleButton.Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ToggleButton}">
<ToggleButton
x:Name="PART_ToggleButton"
Margin="{TemplateBinding Margin}"
Padding="{TemplateBinding Padding}"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
HorizontalContentAlignment="{TemplateBinding HorizontalContentAlignment}"
VerticalContentAlignment="{TemplateBinding VerticalContentAlignment}"
IsEnabled="{TemplateBinding IsEnabled}"
IsChecked="{Binding IsChecked, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}, Mode=TwoWay}"
ContextMenu="{TemplateBinding ContextMenu}"
Background="{TemplateBinding Background}"
BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}"
BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}"
Foreground="{TemplateBinding Foreground}"
FocusVisualStyle="{TemplateBinding FocusVisualStyle}"
ClickMode="{TemplateBinding ClickMode}"
>
<Grid HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="Auto" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ContentPresenter
x:Name="ButtonContentPresenter"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
Margin="{TemplateBinding Padding}"
Content="{TemplateBinding Content}"
Grid.Column="0"
/>
<Border
x:Name="PART_DownArrowBorder"
HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"
VerticalAlignment="Stretch"
Background="Transparent"
Focusable="False"
Grid.Column="1"
>
<Path
Focusable="False"
x:Name="PART_DownArrow"
Data="M 3,0 L 6.5,4 L 10,0"
Width="12"
HorizontalAlignment="Right"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
Fill="Black" SnapsToDevicePixels="True"
>
</Path>
</Border>
</Grid>
</ToggleButton>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>