Set minimum height on TableRow in FlowDocument (WPF)

[Guest]

Hi,

Is it possible to set the minimum height on a TableRow or TableCell in a
FlowDocument? Within a RichTextBox I would like an existing table to have a
minimum height without having to fill it will content.

Thanks,

Anthony.

 

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

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[Chris Mullins [MVP - C#]]

How come I never get this level of service when I post issues?

Seriously though, is there a mechanism that should be followed for
escalation of problems? I get some doozies from time to time...

 

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Hi Anthony,

Unlike an UIElement, a ContentElement is usually used to display data in
flow layout and doesn't have a MinHeight (dependency) property. TableCell
is a ContentElement.

I'm not sure if following workaround will work for you:

We can set TableCell's Padding property to make some extra room before the
bottom border:

<RichTextBox >
<FlowDocument>
<Table>
<TableRowGroup>
<TableRow>
<TableCell Padding="0,0,0,20" >
<Paragraph>Paragraph 1</Paragraph>
</TableCell>
</TableRow>
</TableRowGroup>
</Table>
<Paragraph>Paragraph 2</Paragraph>
</FlowDocument>
</RichTextBox>


If you're using code, you can determine if the TableCell has content or not
to use different padding size:

Pseudo code:
If(myTableCell.Blocks.Count == 0)
{
myTableCell.Padding = someThicknessForEmptyTableCell;
}
else
{
myTableCell.Padding =
someThicknessForTableCellsWithContent;
}


Please let me know if it helps.


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[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

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[Guest]

Hi Walter,

Thanks for your reply. I had considered using padding to achieve the effect,
however the someThicknessForTableCellsWithContent value in your code example
is proving difficult to calculate.

Is there a simple way to get the current hight of the content in a table
cell. I'm doing things like calculating the number of lines (using multiple
calls to GetLineStartPosition) and multiplying it by the height of the font,
but this isn't very accurate. It really needs to be pixel perfect or it looks
silly as the user adds content.

Thanks again,

Anthony.

 

[Guest]

Hi Walter,

I found a way to measure the size of the cell:

Rect startRect = cell.ElementStart.GetCharacterRect(LogicalDirection.Forward);
Rect endRect =
cell.ElementEnd.GetNextInsertionPosition(LogicalDirection.Backward).GetCharacterRect(LogicalDirection.Forward);
double height = (endRect.Bottom - startRect.Top);


Thanks for your suggestion. Works great now!


Anthony.

Hi Walter,

Thanks for your reply. I had considered using padding to achieve the effect,
however the someThicknessForTableCellsWithContent value in your code example
is proving difficult to calculate.

Is there a simple way to get the current hight of the content in a table
cell. I'm doing things like calculating the number of lines (using multiple
calls to GetLineStartPosition) and multiplying it by the height of the font,
but this isn't very accurate. It really needs to be pixel perfect or it looks
silly as the user adds content.

Thanks again,

Anthony.

Hi Anthony,

Unlike an UIElement, a ContentElement is usually used to display data in
flow layout and doesn't have a MinHeight (dependency) property. TableCell
is a ContentElement.

I'm not sure if following workaround will work for you:

We can set TableCell's Padding property to make some extra room before the
bottom border:

<RichTextBox >
<FlowDocument>
<Table>
<TableRowGroup>
<TableRow>
<TableCell Padding="0,0,0,20" >
<Paragraph>Paragraph 1</Paragraph>
</TableCell>
</TableRow>
</TableRowGroup>
</Table>
<Paragraph>Paragraph 2</Paragraph>
</FlowDocument>
</RichTextBox>


If you're using code, you can determine if the TableCell has content or not
to use different padding size:

Pseudo code:
If(myTableCell.Blocks.Count == 0)
{
myTableCell.Padding = someThicknessForEmptyTableCell;
}
else
{
myTableCell.Padding =
someThicknessForTableCellsWithContent;
}


Please let me know if it helps.


Regards,
Walter Wang ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Chris Mullins [MVP - C#]]

I think i'm very confused.

I'm an MSDN subsciber (and have been for 10+ years now), have my address
registered via that posting alias, and post questions/problems to these
groups all the time that go completly unanswered. As far as I can tell the
Newgroup I'm replying on is the same one you're talking about.

I've seen many other people ask this question over the last few years, and
never gotten a good answer. Could you please explain to me how I could post
a question, and to where I should post it, that it's guaranteed to get a
response with 24 to 48 hours? If nothing else, it would help when I see
others ask this.

Given the volume of traffic on this (and other) groups, and the number of
MSDN subscribers, I would exect to see a far higher response rate by people
with [MSFT] in their taglines.

--
Chris Mullins

Hi Chris,

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[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

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