Stretch StatusBarItem

[Jean Louis Leroy]

I'm trying to make a StatusBar with four text items distributed evenly across the available width like this:

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| status1 | status2 | status3 | status4 |

Instead I'm getting this:

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| status1 | status2 | status3 | status4 |

...when I use the following code, which looks like it should do the trick:

What's wrong ? Thanks, J-L

[Ian Shlasko]

I believe the StatusBar, by default, uses a DockPanel to handle its layout... Unless you specify otherwise, a DockPanel will left-dock all but the last item (Which will fill the remaining space). You can change the layout by changing the ItemsPanel property of the StatusBar (It's just an ItemsControl):

<StatusBar ...>
<StatusBar.ItemsPanel>
<ItemsPanelTemplate>
...
</ItemsPanelTemplate>
</StatusBar.ItemsPanel>

...items...

</StatusBar>

If the separators aren't necessary, the easiest way is to use a UniformGrid, which will divide the space equally (Just set Rows = 1 and leave Columns blank). If you want to keep the separators, you could try using a regular Grid, and define columns for everything ("Auto" for separator columns, "*" for item columns).

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[Jean Louis Leroy]

It works perfectly, thanks a lot !