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Negative-margin control get clipped when resizing the window in WPF

I try to understand why a border element get clipped when reducing the width of the main window. Please take a look the code block below.

    <Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="300" Width="500" Name="MainWin">
    <Grid>
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition />
            <RowDefinition />
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>

        <Border Background="Blue" Grid.Row="0" BorderBrush="Black" Width="{Binding ElementName=MainWin, Path=Width}" />
        <Grid Grid.Row="1" Margin="0">
            <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                <ColumnDefinition Width="150" />
                <ColumnDefinition Width="150" />
                <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
            </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
            <StackPanel Grid.Column="0" Background="Black">
                <Border Background="White" Width="150" Height="150" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="2"
                        Margin="0,-100,0,0">

                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding ElementName=MainWin, Path=Width}" FontSize="14" FontWeight="Bold"
                               HorizontalAlignment="Center"
                               VerticalAlignment="Center" />

                </Border>
            </StackPanel>
            <StackPanel Grid.Column="1" Background="Red" />
            <StackPanel Grid.Column="2" Background="Yellow" />
        </Grid>
    </Grid>
</Window>

Here is what the border appears in the original window width:

Non-resized window

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As you can see that the border is displayed outside its container because of the negative top margin, -100 in this case. This is what I expect to have for the border. But when I reduce the main window width to reach the right edge of the red rectangle the outside part of the border get clipped.

Resized window

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I have tried to place this border element inside a custom StackPanel which overrides ArrangeOverride, MeasureOverride and GetLayoutClip method but unfortunately these methods are not invoked when the main window is being resized.

I appreciate if somebody can explain me what the reason is and how to work around with this issue. Thanks a lot.

Solution

  • Based on the explanation of @Marks, here is my solution

    1. Create a custom grid and overrides MeasureOverride method
    2. Replace the inner grid by this custom grid

    CustomGrid class

    public class CustomGrid : Grid
{
    private double _originalHeight = 0;

    protected override Size MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
    {
        Size? size = null;
        if (constraint.Width <= 300)
        {
            size = new Size(constraint.Width, _originalHeight);
        }
        else
        {
            size = base.MeasureOverride(constraint);
            _originalHeight = constraint.Height;

        }
        return size.Value;
    }

}

    XAML code

    <Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:wpfApplication1="clr-namespace:WpfApplication1"
    Title="MainWindow" Height="300" Width="500" Name="MainWin">
<Grid>
    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <RowDefinition />
        <RowDefinition />
    </Grid.RowDefinitions>

    <Border Background="Blue" Grid.Row="0" BorderBrush="Black" Width="{Binding ElementName=MainWin, Path=Width}" />
    <wpfApplication1:CustomGrid Grid.Row="1">
        <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
            <ColumnDefinition Width="150" />
            <ColumnDefinition Width="150" />
            <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
        </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
        <StackPanel Grid.Column="0" Background="Black">
            <Border Background="White" Width="150" Height="150" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="2"
                    Margin="0,-100,0,0">

                <TextBlock Text="{Binding ElementName=MainWin, Path=Width}" FontSize="14" FontWeight="Bold"
                           HorizontalAlignment="Center"
                           VerticalAlignment="Bottom" />

            </Border>
        </StackPanel>
        <StackPanel Grid.Column="1" Background="Red" />
        <StackPanel Grid.Column="2" Background="Yellow" />
    </wpfApplication1:CustomGrid>
</Grid>