By default menu items become disabled when its command cannot be executed (CanExecute = false). What is the easiest way to make the menu item visible/collapsed based on the CanExecute method?
By default menu items become disabled when its command cannot be executed (CanExecute = false). What is the easiest way to make the menu item visible/collapsed based on the CanExecute method?
<Style.Triggers>
<Trigger Property="IsEnabled" Value="False">
<Setter Property="Visibility" Value="Collapsed"/>
</Trigger>
</Style.Triggers>
CanExecute toggles the IsEnabled property so just watch this and keep everything in the UI. Create a separate style if you want to reuse this.
Binding Visibility to IsEnabled does the trick, but the required XAML is unpleasantly long and complicated:
Visibility="{Binding Path=IsEnabled, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Mode=OneWay, Converter={StaticResource booleanToVisibilityConverter}}"
You can use an attached property to hide all the binding details and clearly convey your intent.
Here is the attached property:
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
namespace MyNamespace
{
public static class Bindings
{
public static bool GetVisibilityToEnabled(DependencyObject obj)
{
return (bool)obj.GetValue(VisibilityToEnabledProperty);
}
public static void SetVisibilityToEnabled(DependencyObject obj, bool value)
{
obj.SetValue(VisibilityToEnabledProperty, value);
}
public static readonly DependencyProperty VisibilityToEnabledProperty =
DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached("VisibilityToEnabled", typeof(bool), typeof(Bindings), new PropertyMetadata(false, OnVisibilityToEnabledChanged));
private static void OnVisibilityToEnabledChanged(object sender, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs args)
{
if (sender is FrameworkElement element)
{
if ((bool)args.NewValue)
{
Binding b = new Binding
{
Source = element,
Path = new PropertyPath(nameof(FrameworkElement.IsEnabled)),
Converter = new BooleanToVisibilityConverter()
};
element.SetBinding(UIElement.VisibilityProperty, b);
}
else
{
BindingOperations.ClearBinding(element, UIElement.VisibilityProperty);
}
}
}
}
}
And here is how you would use it:
<Window x:Class="MyNamespace.SomeClass"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:MyNamespace">
<ContextMenu x:Key="bazContextMenu">
<MenuItem Header="Open"
Command="{x:Static local:FooCommand}"
local:Bindings.VisibilityToEnabled="True"/>
</ContextMenu>
</Window>