WPF - Caliburn Micro Event trigger with control as parameter

Question

I have a control named ZoomSlider which I would like to reference in my EventTrigger called via the Caliburn.Micro Message.Attach functionality as such:

cal:Message.Attach="[Event PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown] = [Action ToggleNew($this, $ZoomSlider)]"

The reasoning is that I want then to take action on my UserControl (in this case, slide it open) when my ToggleNew event is raised, but it is impossible to refer to a control in my View from the ViewModel.

How can I refer to the ZoomSlider control from the above code ? My first parameter $this works perfectly but cannot have the same using the UserControl.

Answer 1

Let's assume that your ZoomSlider control is named myZoomSlider like this:

<ZoomSlider x:Name="myZoomSlider" />

Now you can try two things to pass this control to your ToogleNew method on your view-model, but first of all you need to define the method ToogleNew so that it takes a ZoomControl control or any of its super types as a parameter, something like this:

public void ToogleNew(ZoomSlider zoomSlider); // you can also pass any additional parameters if you like to

Now back to the two methods I told you about:

• Try to pass the control as is like this:

  cal:Message.Attach="[Event PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown] = [Action ToggleNew(myZoomSlider)]"
  

• If the first option didn't work for you, then you can try the following:

  <ZoomSlider x:Name="myZoomSlider" />
  <Button Content="Toogle">
      <i:Interaction.Triggers>
          <i:EventTrigger EventName="Click">
              <cal:ActionMessage MethodName="ToogleNew">
                  <cal:Parameter Value="{Binding ElementName=myZoomSlider}" />
              </cal:ActionMessage>
          </i:EventTrigger>
      </i:Interaction.Triggers>
  </Button>
  

You can take a look at the All about actions wiki documentation to learn everything and anything regarding actions and action messages.