A read-only CheckBox in C# WPF

Question

I am having a tricky problem, I want some slightly unusual behaviour from a checkbox and can\'t seem to figure it out. Any suggestions would be most welcome. The behaviour I

Answer 1

I've been trying to create my generic ReadOnlyCheckBox style/template but I'm having a problem with the binding to the data. In the example you bind directly to the data from the ControlTemplate definition, but of course this is not really what I want, as I want to be able to declare the new checkbox something like this:

Except of course when I do this and then set the event trigger on the bullet to be a TemplateBinding of IsChecked I have exactly what I started with! I guess I don't understand why setting the binding directly in the bullet is different from setting IsChecked and then binding to that, isn't the TemplateBinding just a way of referencing what is set in the properties of the control being created? How is the Click triggering the UI update even tho the data does not get updated? Is there a trigger for Click I can override to stop the update?

I got all the DictionaryResource stuff working fine so I am happy with that, cheers for the pointer.

The other thing I was curious about was if it is possible to reduce my Control/Style template by using the BasedOn parameter in the style, then I would only override the things I actually need to change rather than declaring a lot of stuff that I think is part of the standard template anyway. I might have a play with this.

Cheers

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