Growing / compressing WPF animations

Question

In WPF, when the user gets the focus in TextBox, I need an animation that will make the t20 more multi-line and make it Widthbigger (while it prints) and when the focus is lost, which TextBoxreturns to its original size.

Size unknown.

In addition, ultimately, TextBoxmust be in WPF DataGrid.

I haven’t done the animation before, and would like to help me get started. Thank.

EDIT: I was able to complete the animation with some fixed widths (which makes it multi-line not working, but it’s not so important). So now my question is how can I go back to my original size if this is not known. Is there a multiplier that I could use in a property Width?

Here is my code:

<Window.Resources>
        <Storyboard x:Key="GrowStoryboard">
            <DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames BeginTime="00:00:00" Storyboard.TargetName="textBox" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(FrameworkElement.Width)">
                <SplineDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="00:00:00.4000000" Value="400" KeySpline="0.54,0.27,0.38,0.69"/>
            </DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
            <Int32Animation Duration="0:0:0.4" From="1" To="3" Storyboard.TargetName="textBox" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(TextBox.MinLines)">
            </Int32Animation>
        </Storyboard>
        <Storyboard x:Key="ShrinkStoryboard">
            <DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames BeginTime="00:00:00" Storyboard.TargetName="textBox" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(FrameworkElement.Width)">
                <SplineDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="00:00:00.4000000" Value="200" KeySpline="0.54,0.27,0.38,0.69"/>
            </DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
        </Storyboard>
    </Window.Resources>
    <Window.Triggers>
        <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="FocusManager.GotFocus" SourceName="textBox">
            <BeginStoryboard x:Name="GrowStoryboard_BeginStoryboard" Storyboard="{StaticResource GrowStoryboard}"/>
        </EventTrigger>
        <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="FocusManager.LostFocus" SourceName="textBox">
            <BeginStoryboard x:Name="ShrinkStoryboard_BeginStoryboard" Storyboard="{StaticResource ShrinkStoryboard}"/>
        </EventTrigger>
    </Window.Triggers>

    <StackPanel>
        <TextBox x:Name="textBox" Width="200" Height="20" Text="TextBox" />
        <TextBox x:Name="textBox1" Width="200" Height="20" Text="TextBox" />
    </StackPanel>

Answer 1

As long as there is no multiplier in XAML, you can create an IValueConverter class to accomplish this. For instance:

    class Multiplier : IValueConverter
{
    public object Convert( object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture )
    {
        var dblValue = 1.0;
        if (value is double)
            dblValue = (double)value;
        else if ( !(value is string) || !double.TryParse( (string)value, out dblValue ) )
            return null;

        var dblParam = 1.0;
        if (parameter is double)
            dblParam = (double)parameter;
        else if ( !(parameter is string) || !double.TryParse( (string)parameter, out dblParam ) )
            return null;

        return dblValue * dblParam;
    }

    public object ConvertBack( object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture )
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

Then you can use this in XAML to increase the width and compression of the width of the text field like this ...

        <DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames BeginTime="00:00:00" Storyboard.TargetName="textBox" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(FrameworkElement.Width)">
            <SplineDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0:0:0.4" Value="{Binding ElementName=textBox, Path=Width, Converter={StaticResource Multiplier}, ConverterParameter=2}" KeySpline="0.54,0.27,0.38,0.69"/>
        </DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames>

        <DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames BeginTime="00:00:00" Storyboard.TargetName="textBox" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(FrameworkElement.Width)">
            <SplineDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="0:0:0.4" Value="{Binding ElementName=textBox, Path=Width, Converter={StaticResource Multiplier}, ConverterParameter=0.5}" KeySpline="0.54,0.27,0.38,0.69"/>
        </DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames>