How do you set a default size of a control that you can resize? I have been looking at a code sample from Charles Petzold. It is from here: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ it uses mouse over methods to increase the size of button classes. I have it working but I want to make some modifications. I want the starting size of the button to be larger. I do not know how much of the code I need to post here to make the issue clear enough. The XAML for the page describes a "FisheyeButton" that is described in a seperate xaml file. Something like this:
<StackPanel x:Name="LayoutRoot" Width="1017" Orientation="Horizontal" Height="253"> <src:FisheyeButton Style="{StaticResource btnStyle}" ButtonContent="Button No. 1" /> </StackPanel>
The functionality of the project is such that if I give the Fisheyebutton a width and height a set size at this loction, the effect where the size of the control the effect of becoming larger does not happen. In other words, if I write in the <src:FisheyeButton... tag above Width="100", then the button does not behave at run time as it should. In the same page.xaml file, the btnStyle is defined like this: <UserControl.Resources > <Style x:Key="btnStyle" TargetType="src:FisheyeButton"> <Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value ="Center" /> <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value ="Center" /> <Setter Property="FontSize" Value ="12" /> </Style ></UserControl.Resources >I wonder if perhaps at this point, I can add a "Setter" property to define a default starting widh and height for the class. The animation, what makes the custom button class grow larger and also return to a normal size, is done in a seperate XAML for the Fisheyebutton class: <UserControl x:Class="FisheyeButtons6.FisheyeButton" xmlns="[url="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; xmlns:x="[url="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; xmlns:vsm="clr-namespace:System.Windows;assembly=System.Windows" xmlns:src="clr-namespace:FisheyeButtons6" mc:Ignorable="d" xmlns:d="[url="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; xmlns:mc="[url="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; d:DesignHeight="64" d:DesignWidth="146"> <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White" > <vsm:VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups> <vsm:VisualStateGroup x:Name="CommonStates"> <vsm:VisualState x:Name="Normal"> <Storyboard> <DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="presenter" Storyboard.TargetProperty="ScaleX" To="1" Duration="0:0:0.25" /> <DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="presenter" Storyboard.TargetProperty="ScaleY" To="1" Duration="0:0:0.25" /> </Storyboard> </vsm:VisualState> <vsm:VisualState x:Name="MouseOver"> <Storyboard> <DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="presenter" Storyboard.TargetProperty="ScaleX" To="3" Duration="0:0:1" /> <DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetName="presenter" Storyboard.TargetProperty="ScaleY" To="3" Duration="0:0:1" /> </Storyboard> </vsm:VisualState> </vsm:VisualStateGroup> </vsm:VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups> <Button> <src:ScalableContentPresenter x:Name="presenter" /> </Button> </Grid></UserControl>