Question

I got a question about changing the background image of a button when it’s clicked.

I tried searching on google but i couldn’t find something that worked for me.

Well here’s my code

<Button Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" x:Name="btnHome" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" BorderBrush="{x:Null}" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" Click="btnHome_Click" PointerEntered="btnHome_PointerEntered">
                <Button.Template>
                    <ControlTemplate TargetType="Button">
                        <Border x:Name="RootElement">
                            <VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
                                <VisualStateGroup x:Name="CommonStates">
                                    <VisualState x:Name="MouseOver">
                                        <Storyboard>
                                            //I want my background change here
                                        </Storyboard>
                                    </VisualState>
                                    <VisualState x:Name="Pressed">
                                        <Storyboard>
                                            //And here
                                        </Storyboard>
                                    </VisualState>
                                </VisualStateGroup>
                            </VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
                            <Border.Background>
                                <ImageBrush ImageSource="images/back_button.png"/>
                            </Border.Background>
                        </Border>
                    </ControlTemplate>
                </Button.Template>
            </Button>

i also tried this

private void btnHome_PointerEntered(object sender, PointerRoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        BitmapImage bmp = new BitmapImage();
        Uri u = new Uri("ms-appx:images/back_button_mouseover.png", UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute);
        bmp.UriSource = u;
        ImageBrush i = new ImageBrush();
        i.ImageSource = bmp;
        btnHome.Background = i;
    }

But unfortunately this worked neither

Answer 1

I found the anwser on this question.

You have to edit the template of your control.

You can do it with Blend, or “by hand”.

Retrieve the default template of your button(by pressing right button, edit template, edit copy, give it a name and press ok) and then customize it in order to fit to your needs

EDIT : Here is MSDN Ressource on RadioButton template customization.