Is it possible to get a popup to ignore MenuDropAlignment in a WPF / Touch app?

Question

As a bit of background - Windows has a facility for Touch/TabletPCs whereby it shifts the position of popups/menus depending on your \"handedness\" (to prevent the menu appearin

Answer 1

This is pretty old but I found another way if you have .net 4.5 at least.

By overriding your menuitem/popup templates, you can use the following trigger:

Off course, set the following :

• True or False to your datatrigger value,
• Left or Right as your setter value.

It's important that the binding use Binding Path=() syntax and not Binding={x:static ...} so that you can use the StaticPropertyChanged event from your static class.