Hi,

I'm trying to produce a simple designer in Xaml, for a test app I've produced the following Xaml:

<Window x:Class="xamlWindowsApp.frmDesigner" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title="xamlWindowsApp" Height="450" Width="582" xmlns:my="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib">

<DockPanel Margin="1,1,2,2" MinHeight="50" MinWidth="50" Name="dockPanel1" LastChildFill ="True">

<Label MouseLeftButtonDown ="OnLeftButtonDown" MouseLeftButtonUp ="OnLeftButtonUp" MouseMove ="OnMouseMove" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Name="label1" Width="60" BorderBrush="#FFC0C0C0" BorderThickness="3,3,3,3" Height="30" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Canvas.Left="40" Canvas.Top="10">Movable</Label>

</Canvas>

</DockPanel>

</Window>

I have two question:

1. How do I get the location of the mouse on the canvas?

2. How do I change the Labels canvas properties so that I can get it to track the mouse within the canvas.

Thanks in advance for any help

AndyH

I have found how to get the mouse location on the canvas using:

System.Windows.Input.Mouse.GetPosition(this)

Does anyone one know if there is a better or Best Practice way of doing this.

Thanks

Andy

Hi Andy,

This forum is for the WPF Designer for Visual Studio. For questions about the WPF runtime behaviors & usage, please post to the WPF Forum (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=119&SiteID=1). There are many smart eyeballs there, I'm certain you'll find some suggestions on run-time mouse capture & layout.

thanks

chad

Thanks, will do.

Found a possible answer, you can use static methods

Canvas.SetTop( object, value)

Depending on what you are trying to accomplish, you may be interested in the InkCanvas class which provides an edit mode that allows the end user to select and move its child elements.

http://www.windojitsu.com/blog/tictactoefx.html

http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.inkcanvas.aspx