PropertyStatus UI Message Display

miker56 posted on Friday, October 09, 2009

When I have a broken rule, the rule description shows up down one row and to the right from where the property status icon is, making it look like it belongs to the text box underneath the textbox with the error. The red icon itself is in the proper place, but when you mouse over it the broken rule description is down and to the right.

I saw this in the EditTestObject.xaml page from one of the Silverlight Video series demos and in my own code.

Has anyone else experienced this?

RockfordLhotka replied on Friday, October 09, 2009

The broken rule description is actually in a popup window, and could be a list of broken rules. The popup window appears down and to the right of the mouse pointer, which is pretty standard for popup windows.

This is XAML of course, and is therefore stylable. So you can change around many aspects of how this is displayed. I don't know if you can style where the popup window appears though - that might be out of our control as well (much the way popup menus, tooltips and other popup window postions are out of our control).