I'm sorry if the question title wasnt clear, but I'm trying to make something like this, I dunno if they are tiles or images inside a WrapControl:
I was thinking of making such thing with a wrap panel and each one of those blocks as a stackpanel. but I'm not sure if thats the right approach.
is there a control to do such thing?
You are on the right track. WrapPanel
is the way to go :)
To make each block more interesting, you can take a look at the HubTile control from the latest windows phone toolkit. Whatever controls/panels you are using, just remember the size should be 173*173.
Use a ListBox
In one of my projects I created a ListBox
that does all this. The reason that I use a ListBox
is because ListBox
has a SelectedItem
propery which tells me which tile is tapped by the user. Also another reason is ListBoxItems
can receive the nice tilt effect.
Baiscally you just need to create a tile-like ListBoxItem
style and apply it to the ListBox
's ItemContainerStyle
, also you need to set the ListBox
's ItemsPanel
to be a WrapPanel
.
How it looks
The ListBoxItem Style
<Style x:Key="TileListBoxItemStyle" TargetType="ListBoxItem">
<Setter Property="HorizontalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch"/>
<Setter Property="VerticalContentAlignment" Value="Stretch"/>
<Setter Property="Padding" Value="0"/>
<Setter Property="FontSize" Value="64"/>
<Setter Property="Margin" Value="12,12,0,0"/>
<Setter Property="Background" Value="{StaticResource PhoneAccentBrush}"/>
<Setter Property="Foreground" Value="White"/>
<Setter Property="Width" Value="173"/>
<Setter Property="Height" Value="173"/>
<Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Left"/>
<Setter Property="Template">
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="ListBoxItem">
<Grid>
<Rectangle Fill="{TemplateBinding Background}"/>
<ContentPresenter HorizontalAlignment="{TemplateBinding HorizontalContentAlignment}" VerticalAlignment="{TemplateBinding VerticalContentAlignment}"/>
</Grid>
</ControlTemplate>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Style>
The ListBox
<!-- set its ItemContainerStyle which is the style for each ListBoxItem -->
<ListBox ItemContainerStyle="{StaticResource TileListBoxItemStyle}">
<!-- set its ItemsPanel to be a WrapPanel -->
<ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
<toolkit:WrapPanel />
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemsPanel>
<ListBoxItem>
<Grid>
<TextBlock Text="Messages" />
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
<Path Data="M1.4901163E-05,9.8579922 L50.000015,46.316994 L100.00002,9.8579922 L100.00002,62.499992 L1.4901163E-05,62.499992 z M0,0 L100,0 L50,36.458 z" Fill="White" Height="38.125" Stretch="Fill" UseLayoutRounding="False" Width="61" d:IsLocked="True" />
<TextBlock Text="12" Margin="4,0,0,8" />
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
</ListBoxItem>
<ListBoxItem/>
<ListBoxItem/>
<ListBoxItem/>
<toolkit:HubTile Title="Me ☺" Message="..." Notification="new messages!" Source="xxx.jpg" Margin="12,12,0,0" />
</ListBox>
You can see the last item is actually a HubTile
.
Hope ths helps! :)