Reacting to Collapsable Legend Events

[MMCCPaulEden]

Hi

 

We are using the following style, supplied by ChartFX, to make the Legend box collapsable:

<Style TargetType="{x:Type ItemsControl}" x:Key="LegendBoxStyle"><Style.Setters><Setter Property="Template"><Setter.Value><ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ItemsControl}"><Expander x:Name="expLegend" Header="Legend Box" Foreground="White"><ScrollViewer HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" MaxWidth="300" Margin="0,5,0,0"><ItemsPresenter /></ScrollViewer></Expander></ControlTemplate></Setter.Value></Setter></Style.Setters></Style>

Can you advise how we might catch events thrown by the "expExpander" control?

I had tried Inheriting the ChartFX Chart object and overriding the OnTemplateApplied method but without result:

 

public

class CustomCFXChart : Chart

{

public CustomCFXChart ()

{

 

}

public bool LegendExpanded { get; set; }public override void OnApplyTemplate()

{

DependencyObject d = GetTemplateChild("expLegend");if (d != null)

{

(d as Expander).Expanded += new RoutedEventHandler(expLegend_Expanded);(d as Expander).Collapsed += new RoutedEventHandler(expLegend_Collapsed);

}

base.OnApplyTemplate();

}

void expLegend_Expanded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

{

LegendExpanded = true;

}

void expLegend_Collapsed(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

{

LegendExpanded = false;

}

}

 

 

Many thanks

 

 

Paul Eden

[JuanC]

Overwriting OnApplyTemplate will probably not work because we build out our visual tree from many different parts where one of them is the legend box. A simple but not very elegant solution would be to include the style "in-place" in your xaml instead of using it as a resource, e.g.

<

cfx:Chart Gallery="Bar" x:Name="chart1">  <cfx:Chart.Series>   <cfx:SeriesAttributes/>   <cfx:SeriesAttributes/>  </cfx:Chart.Series>  <cfx:Chart.LegendBox>   <cfx:LegendBox>   <cfx:LegendBox.ContainerStyle>   <Style TargetType="{x:Type ItemsControl}">   <Style.Setters>   <Setter Property="Template">   <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ItemsControl}">   <Expander x:Name="expLegend" Header="Legend Box" Foreground="White" Expanded="OnLegendExpanded">

By placing the style directly in your window/page xaml you will be able to hook to the OnLegendExpanded function in your class. We will research alternative options to accomplish this.

JuanC