I'm using an ItemsControl to display a list of databound items, for each the core of the DataTemplate is a Grid upon which I've placed all the bound controls.
I would like to be able to click on the entire area for each item in the list. But I cannot figure out how to make the area clickable.
Any suggestions of how to make an entire grid area clickable would be great.
You can use the AttachedCommandBehavior classes from C# Disciples to achieve this.
Define a command in the ViewModel, and then on the Grid object use the ACB AttachedProperties to bind the MouseLeftButtonUp
event to the command.
Some code to get you started:
<Grid Name="grid" Height="30" ForceCursor="True" Cursor="Hand">
<acb:CommandBehaviorCollection.Behaviors>
<acb:BehaviorBinding Event="MouseLeftButtonUp" Command="{Binding Path=DataContext.EditEventCommand, RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType={x:Type self:Dashboard}}}" CommandParameter="{Binding}" />
</acb:CommandBehaviorCollection.Behaviors>
</Grid>
Edit for non-MVVM solution.
The above code snippet will still work when you have not designed your application following the MVVM guide-lines as you are essentially just binding to a command in the code-behind.
However, if you don't want to go to the trouble of defining commands, you can simply specify an event to hook to, like so:
<Grid MouseLeftButtonUp="Grid_MouseLeftButtonUp">
in the XAML file.
and in the code-behind:
private void Grid_MouseLeftButtonUp(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
}
To make something clickable you can usually wrap it in a Button, if it should be "invisible" you can change the template:
<Button.Template>
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
<ContentPresenter />
</ControlTemplate>
</Button.Template>