You don't need ANY of these other fancy answers. Below is a simplistic example that doesn't have all the Margin
, Height
, Width
properties set in the XAML, but should be enough to show how to get this done at a basic level.
XAML
Build a Window
page like you would normally and add your fields to it, say a Label
and TextBox
control inside a StackPanel
:
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Label Name="lblUser" Content="User Name:" />
<TextBox Name="txtUser" />
</StackPanel>
Then create a standard Button
for Submission ("OK" or "Submit") and a "Cancel" button if you like:
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Button Name="btnSubmit" Click="btnSubmit_Click" Content="Submit" />
<Button Name="btnCancel" Click="btnCancel_Click" Content="Cancel" />
</StackPanel>
Code-Behind
You'll add the Click
event handler functions in the code-behind, but when you go there, first, declare a public variable where you will store your textbox value:
public static string strUserName = String.Empty;
Then, for the event handler functions (right-click the Click
function on the button XAML, select "Go To Definition", it will create it for you), you need a check to see if your box is empty. You store it in your variable if it is not, and close your window:
private void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(txtUser.Text))
{
strUserName = txtUser.Text;
this.Close();
}
else
MessageBox.Show("Must provide a user name in the textbox.");
}
Calling It From Another Page
You're thinking, if I close my window with that this.Close()
up there, my value is gone, right? NO!! I found this out from another site: http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/359208-wpf-how-to-make-simple-popup-window-for-input/
They had a similar example to this (I cleaned it up a bit) of how to open your Window
from another and retrieve the values:
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void btnOpenPopup_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
MyPopupWindow popup = new MyPopupWindow(); // this is the class of your other page
//ShowDialog means you can't focus the parent window, only the popup
popup.ShowDialog(); //execution will block here in this method until the popup closes
string result = popup.strUserName;
UserNameTextBlock.Text = result; // should show what was input on the other page
}
}
Cancel Button
You're thinking, well what about that Cancel button, though? So we just add another public variable back in our pop-up window code-behind:
public static bool cancelled = false;
And let's include our btnCancel_Click
event handler, and make one change to btnSubmit_Click
:
private void btnCancel_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
cancelled = true;
strUserName = String.Empty;
this.Close();
}
private void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(txtUser.Text))
{
strUserName = txtUser.Text;
cancelled = false; // <-- I add this in here, just in case
this.Close();
}
else
MessageBox.Show("Must provide a user name in the textbox.");
}
And then we just read that variable in our MainWindow
btnOpenPopup_Click
event:
private void btnOpenPopup_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
MyPopupWindow popup = new MyPopupWindow(); // this is the class of your other page
//ShowDialog means you can't focus the parent window, only the popup
popup.ShowDialog(); //execution will block here in this method until the popup closes
// **Here we find out if we cancelled or not**
if (popup.cancelled == true)
return;
else
{
string result = popup.strUserName;
UserNameTextBlock.Text = result; // should show what was input on the other page
}
}
Long response, but I wanted to show how easy this is using public static
variables. No DialogResult
, no returning values, nothing. Just open the window, store your values with the button events in the pop-up window, then retrieve them afterwards in the main window function.