Hi Greg,
I’m going to make a few assumptions here.. First up is that the “image” is a
Path element defined in a resource dictionary which is then inside the xaml
file.
Next up, the path element will need to have a name defined using
x:key=”nameofresourcehere”
<ResourceDictionary>
<Path x:Key=”MyXamlImage” …. />
</ ResourceDictionary >
Once you have this, then in the xaml file you want the image to be included in,
you’ll need to import the resource, it’s a bit verbose but it will be along the
lines of
<Window.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergeDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary Source=”PathToFileWithImage.xaml”/>
</ResourceDictionary.MergeDictionary>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Window.Resources>
Then to use it,
<MenuItem…. Icon=”{StaticResource MyXamlImage}”>
</MenuItem>
Hope this helps.
Ed.
From: Greg Keogh via ozdotnet <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2024 5:57 PM
To: ozDotNet <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Keogh <[email protected]>
Subject: XAML images in WPF?
Folks, in a video I saw a few weeks ago I learned that the Visual Studio team
uses XAML for most of their images, not png or similar. I'm keen to do the same
because I imagine that I would no longer need tedious sets of 16x16 32x32 48x48
... etc images because each XAML file is composed from scalable geometry
elements that would look good at any size.
I downloaded the Image Library
<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35825> which
contains thousands of XAML, png and svg sets of standard images. But I can't
figure out how to simply use the XAML files in a WPF app. All the examples I
can find seem to have pasted the contents of the XAML images into resource
files and then reference them by x:Key. I don't want to manually paste XAML
around like that, I just want to add a file like FolderClosedBlue.xaml (for
example) to my project and use it as the icon for a menu or button as simply as
possible. How can I replace this sort of thing?...
<MenuItem Header="_Foo Command" Command="...">
<MenuItem.Icon>
< use the XAML image file somehow instead of a resource png? >
</MenuItem.Icon>
</MenuItem>
Is there some coding trick I'm not aware of to simply use an image defined in a
XAML file in my app?
Cheers, Greg K
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