Question

I need to bind a TextBox that meets two criteria:

• IsEnabled if Text.Length > 0
• IsEnabled if user.IsEnabled

Where user.IsEnabled is pulled from a data source. I was wondering if anyone had a easy method for doing this.

Here is the XAML:

<ContentControl IsEnabled="{Binding Path=Enabled, Source={StaticResource UserInfo}}"> 
    <TextBox DataContext="{DynamicResource UserInfo}" Text="{Binding FirstName, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}" IsEnabled="{Binding Path=Text, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Converter={StaticResource LengthToBool}}"/> 
</ContentControl>

Answer 1

Since you only need a logical OR, you just need two Triggers to your each of the properties.

Try this XAML:

<StackPanel>
        <StackPanel.Resources>
            <Style TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
                <Style.Triggers>
                    <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding ElementName=InputText, Path=Text}" Value="" >
                        <Setter Property="IsEnabled" Value="False" />
                    </DataTrigger>
                    <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding Path=MyIsEnabled}" Value="False" >
                        <Setter Property="IsEnabled" Value="False" />
                    </DataTrigger>
                </Style.Triggers>
            </Style>
        </StackPanel.Resources>
        <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
            <Label>MyIsEnabled</Label>
            <CheckBox IsChecked="{Binding Path=MyIsEnabled}" />
        </StackPanel>
        <TextBox Name="InputText">A block of text.</TextBox>
        <Button Name="TheButton" Content="A big button.">     
        </Button>
    </StackPanel>

I set DataContext to the Window class which has a DependencyProperty called MyIsEnabled. Obviously you would have to modify for your particular DataContext.

Here is the relevant code-behind:

public bool MyIsEnabled
{
    get { return (bool)GetValue(IsEnabledProperty); }
    set { SetValue(IsEnabledProperty, value); }
}

public static readonly DependencyProperty MyIsEnabledProperty =
    DependencyProperty.Register("MyIsEnabled", typeof(bool), typeof(MainWindow), new UIPropertyMetadata(true));


public MainWindow()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    this.DataContext = this;
}

Hope that helps!