I have a problem in c# wpf tring to bind to CurrentItem, i have a list of persons, and each persons can have one of two items. You can select a person in the list and then select it's item in a combobox.
The combobox binds to Persons.CurrentItem.Item and shows what the person have as selected item. But i cant change it, or rather i cant keep the change that is made, it changes back as soon as i select a new person.
The XAML looks like this:
<!--This dose not work-->
<TextBox Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="148,55,0,0" Name="textBox1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="120" Text="{Binding Path=Persons.CurrentItem.Item.Name}"/>
<!--This works-->
<TextBox Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="16,306,0,0" Name="textBox2" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="120" Text="{Binding Path=Persons.CurrentItem.Name}"/>
<!--This works, we do not bind to CurrentItem-->
<ListBox Height="274" HorizontalAlignment="Left" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Persons2}" SelectedItem="{Binding Path=SelectedPerson}" Margin="292,26,0,0" Name="listBox2" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="120" DisplayMemberPath="Name" />
<ComboBox Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Items}" SelectedItem="{Binding Path=SelectedPerson.Item}" Margin="431,26,0,0" Name="comboBox2" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="120" DisplayMemberPath="Name"/>
</Grid>
As you can see i have added a persons2 with SelectedItem as SelectedPerson. This works fine and i want to mimic it's function but i want to use Current item.
This is the C# code:
// Selectable items
public List<Item> Items { get; set; }
// List of persons, we will bind to it's CurrentItem
public List<Person> Persons { get; set; }
// This works, we do not use CurrentItem
public List<Person> Persons2 { get; set; }
private Person _selectedPerson;
public Person SelectedPerson
{
get { return _selectedPerson; }
set
{
_selectedPerson = value;
NotifyPropertyChanged("SelectedPerson");
}
}
#region Constructo
public Window()
{
InitializeComponent();
DataContext = this;
// Populate Items
Items = new List<Item>
{
new Item {Name = "Hammer"},
new Item {Name = "Axe"}
};
// Populate persons
Persons = new List<Person>() { new Person { Name = "Lisa", Item = Items.FirstOrDefault()}, new Person { Name = "Kauf" } };
Persons2 = new List<Person>(Persons); // make a copy
}
#endregion
#region PropertyChangeHandler
public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
protected void NotifyPropertyChanged(string name)
{
var handler = PropertyChanged;
if (handler != null)
handler(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(name));
}
#endregion
}
public class Item
{
public string Name { get; set; }
}
public class Person
{
public string Name { get; set; }
private Item _item;
public Item Item
{
get { return _item; }
set
{
// We only accass this if we do not bind to CurrentItem
_item = value;
}
}
}
If you test the example you can see that Persons.CurrentItem.Name works, but Persons.CurrentItem.Item.Name dose not, Why? Have i missed something with the level of access? Is there something i have missed on how to use CurrentItem?
Thanks for enlightening me.