[RESOLVED] Dashed Borders - No Clue.

Hi guys.

I'm working on a new project and seem to be a little stuck. Frankly MS should have included the ability to draw dashed and dotted borders directly into the border control.

I have blocks of XAML like this:

Code:

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<Border Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="8" Style="{StaticResource AlkaliMetalDecay}">
    <StackPanel Style="{StaticResource ElementStack}">
        <TextBlock Style="{StaticResource StateSolid}">87</TextBlock>
        <TextBlock>Fr</TextBlock>
    </StackPanel>
</Border>

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What I need is for the border element here to show a dotted border around the content. I've got no idea how this should be done, though it could probably be done by combining a template for the StackPanel and a Rectangle element - though I have no idea how.

Quote:

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Frankly MS should have included the ability to draw dashed and dotted borders directly into the border control

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Why? I've never seen that in any application... so why would they include it as a built in feature? Just because it happens to be what you want, doesn't mean it deserves to be built in to WPF.

Anywho, I'll have a play around and see what I can come up with.

Borders are borders, naturally assuming everyone wants a solid border was a huge mistake (after a few minutes searching Google I found hundreds of people saying the same thing).

Anyway. I figured out a way to cheat. I basically used a grid element to position a rectangle object with a dashed array border directly over the element in question - and that worked as I wanted :)

Ah cool, glad you got it working and thanks for sharing the solution.

PS you can search for pretty much anything in google and find hundreds of people asking the same question :P

Yeah, that's true but that still doesn't change the fact that it is a sensible thing to include - it is even in CSS after all.