I am trying to get my tree view to group a collection of similar items by what they are. To keep things generic, my object hierarchy could look like this:
Right now my TreeView shows these objects exactly like the object model, but what I would like to do is insert a TreeView node for each object type so that it would look like this:
I saw in a similar question here that someone recommended to have two separate HierarchicalDataTemplates
so I created one for 'Object Group #1' level which contains a TreeView with a list of the types, but this is really clumsy since it is a whole separate TreeView inside of some nodes. I have also been trying to use a CollectionViewSource
to filter out the items in each category, but this doesn't do me very much good since I can't figure out how to display them.
I guess my question boils down to this: How do I make a HierarchicalDataTemplate
group it's children? If someone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it a lot.
I can post some code if anyone wants to see, but I am really just trying to figure out how to do what I want so my code is just a pretty straight forward databound treeview right now.
You can achieve this effect by binding the ItemsSource
on your HierarchicalDataTempalate
using an IValueConverter
. This converter is simply does the following:
public class MyConverter : IValueConverter
{
public object Convert(object value, ...)
{
return
from item in (IEnumerable<MyItem>)value
group item by item.Type into g
select new { Type = g.Key, Items = g }
}
...
}
Now your HierarchcialDataTemplate
can be as follows:
<HierarchicalDataTemplate ItemsSource="{Binding SomePath, Converter={x:Static local:MyConverter}">
<HierarchicalDataTemplate.ItemTemplate>
<HierarchicalDataTemplate
ItemsSource="{Binding Items}"
TargetType="{x:Type local:MyItem}"
ItemTemplate="{StaticResource MyItemTemplate}">
<!-- may omit ItemTemplate in prior line to use implicit template -->
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Type}" /> <!-- Header for type -->
</HierarchicalDataTemplate>
</HierarchicalDataTemplate.ItemTemplate>
<!-- header for "Object Group #1" -->
</HierarchicalDataTemplate>