Question

I have written a attached property which stores amongst others a help text.
This help text is shown on the right side of the main window. This works fine.

Now, I want to add a tooltip for every control. The content of the tooltip should be same as for the helptext extension.

The XAML code:

<ListView   ctrl:ListViewLayoutManager.Enabled="true"
            x:Name="ListViewSources"
            ItemsSource="{Binding SourceItems}" 
            ItemContainerStyle="{DynamicResource ListViewItemStyleAlternate}"
            Height="150"
            MinWidth="350" 
            Helper:HelpExtension.IsControl="true"
            Helper:HelpExtension.HelpText="{x:Static strings:GUIResource.HelpProfilesSourcesDescriptionText}" >
    <ListView.ToolTip>
        <ToolTip Style="{DynamicResource Own_TooltipStyle}"></ToolTip>
    </ListView.ToolTip>

And now the code of the style:

<Style x:Key="Own_TooltipStyle" TargetType="{x:Type ToolTip}">
    <Setter Property="Background" Value="LightYellow"/>
    <Setter Property="Template">
        <Setter.Value>
            <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type ToolTip}">
                <Grid>
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Helper:HelpExtension.HelpText, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type ListView}}}" />
                </Grid>
            </ControlTemplate>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>

If I run the program I get the binding error:

System.Windows.Data Error: 39 :
BindingExpression path error:
‘Helper:HelpExtension’ property not
found on ‘object’ ”ListView’
(Name=’ListViewSources’)’.
BindingExpression:Path=Helper:HelpExtension.HelpText;
DataItem=’ListView’
(Name=’ListViewSources’); target
element is ‘TextBlock’ (Name=”);
target property is ‘Text’ (type
‘String’)

Does anybody know how I can bind the TextBlock to the content of Helper:HelpExternsion.HelpText?

Answer 1

Just put parentheses around the attached property name :

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=(Helper:HelpExtension.HelpText), RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type ListView}}}" />