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Programming WPF, 2nd Edition
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Programming WPF, 2nd Edition

by Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths
August 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
864 pages
25h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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When Content Doesn't Fit

Sometimes WPF will not be able to honor your requests because you have asked the impossible. Example 3-33 creates a StackPanel with a Height of 100, which contains a Button with a Height of 195.

Example 3-33. Asking the impossible

<StackPanel Height="100" Background="Yellow" Orientation="Horizontal">
  <Button>Foo</Button>
  <Button Height="30">Bar</Button>
  <Button Height="195" >Quux</Button>
</StackPanel>

Clearly that last button is too big to fit—it is taller than its containing panel. Figure 3-37 shows how WPF deals with this.

Truncation when content is too large

Figure 3-37. Truncation when content is too large

The StackPanel has dealt with the anomaly by truncating the element that was too large. When confronted with contradictory hardcoded sizes like these, most panels take a similar approach, and will crop content where it simply cannot fit.

There is some variation in the way that panels handle overflow in situations where sizes are not hardcoded, but there is still too much content to fit. Example 3-34 puts two copies of a TextBlock and its content into a StackPanel and a Grid cell.

Example 3-34. Handling overflow

<Grid Background="Yellow" ShowGridLines="True"> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition /> <RowDefinition /> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <StackPanel Height="100" Orientation="Horizontal"> <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" FontSize="20"> This is some text that is too long to fit. </TextBlock> </StackPanel> ...
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