Silverlight Controls and Silverlight Toolkit

Re: Re: Re: Re: Theming. Two Button Styles. How?

maxima120 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:06:49 GMT

would be there another suggestions? Am I the only one who need it?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Theming. Two Button Styles. How?

maxima120 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:05:05 GMT

Update. I could manage to load my new Button1 type but ImplicitStyleManager still doesnt work. No exceptions just no effect.

element.SetValue(ExternalResourceDictionaryProperty, value); <-- this doesnt make visual difference

Re: Re: Re: Theming. Two Button Styles. How?

maxima120 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:28:16 GMT

OK, it doesnt work out of the box, ImplicitStyleManager throws silent exception "Invalid attribute value local:Button1 for property TargetType"

It seems I need to roll the sleeves and dig into the manager code to make it load my types somehow...

Re: Re: Theming. Two Button Styles. How?

maxima120 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:57:14 GMT

it makes sense. I am going to test and report.

Should work I suppose (if toolkit manager will not override my efforts :))

Thank you!

Re: Theming. Two Button Styles. How?

Ken Tucker — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:45:10 GMT

Maybe create a class named OtherButtonStyle and have it inherit from button. Add a theme in this type. Use an OtherButtonStyle control in your form instead of a button where you need the other style. (untested)

Theming. Two Button Styles. How?

maxima120 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:03:34 GMT

I have few different styles for buttons. Say ButtonStyle1 and ButtonStyle2. And I use them <Button Style="{StaticResource ButtonStyle1...

I would like to add theming to my application. So the ButtonStyle1 could be of different colours.

I could manage to use implicit style manager in a prototype to apply different themes at runtime using code:

            ImplicitStyleManager.SetResourceDictionaryUri(this, uri);
            ImplicitStyleManager.SetApplyMode(this, ImplicitStylesApplyMode.Auto);
            ImplicitStyleManager.Apply(this);

However the manager applies by type. If there is a style with target type = Button it will be applied to a button control.

How can I use toolkit theming to have different styles within different themes. Say ThemeOrange.ButtonStyle1 and 2; ThemeGreen.ButtonStyle1 and 2

Thank you