Question

I’ve created a fairly simple UserControl consisting of a TextBox and ComboBox.

<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">        
    <MyNamespace:MultiBox Style="{StaticResource PhoneBoxStyle}" BoxType="Phone" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" Name="phoneNumber" Margin="50,0,5,5" MinWidth="250"/>
    <ComboBox Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" Height="{Binding ElementName=phoneNumber, Path=Height}" MinWidth="100" Name="callResultsSelection" ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource callResults}}" Margin="0,0,5,5"/>
</StackPanel>

I need to be able to then export the .Text & .SelectedItem values of those with the press of a single button. I tried using a property like below, but it doesn’t seem to work. It does expose a .Text property through IntelliSense for the control, but it doesn’t copy anything to the clipboard as intended.

Original (and desired) approach:

public string Text
    {
        get { return phoneNumber.Text + " - " + callResultsSelection.SelectedItem + "\r\n"; }
        set { value = phoneNumber.Text + " - " + callResultsSelection.SelectedItem + "\r\n"; }
    }

Fallback approach:

public string Text
    {
        get { return phoneNumber.Text; }
        set { value = phoneNumber.Text; }
    }        

    public string ComboBoxSelection
    {
        get { return callResultsSelection.SelectedItem.ToString(); }
        set { value = callResultsSelection.SelectedItem.ToString(); }
    }

The control iteration I’m using is as follows. There are a lot more of these sections, but this is the only relevant one.

foreach (object o in ccChildren.GetChildren(tool, 3))
            {
                if (o.GetType() == typeof(CallTemplate))
                {
                    CallTemplate template = (CallTemplate)o;
                    if (template.Text != null)
                    {
                        textBuffer += template.Text;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        textBuffer = "";
                    }
                    tempString += textBuffer;
                    textBuffer = "";
                }
            }

By using breakpoints, I do know that it does reach the decision point in the if block, but even though VS recognizes the CallTemplate object, it doesn’t match it. Anyone see the problem?

Edit: I do know that the problem is not with the iteration method (ccChildren.GetChildren). I am using this with a multitude of other controls (textbox, combobox, radio button, checkbox) and it works perfectly fine. The only thing in that area that could be an issue is the CallTemplate type.

Answer 1

So this would be one of those moments of sheer stupidity. My only problem was that I hadn’t added the GroupBox containing the UserControl to the array of GroupBoxes to iterate through. Thanks for the helpful replies though…