I am creating some wpf resource dictionaries with all the styles for an application! I have a few LinearGradientBrush
es, where the color is set directly in the LinearGradientBrush
reference as GradientStop
s. However, I want to have a predefined set of colors that I can use a a reference for each GradientStop
, so that changing the color scheme for the application is a matter of changing the values of the SolidColorBrush
es:
<SolidColorBrush Color="#5A5A5A" x:Key="colorbrushMedium" />
<SolidColorBrush Color="#222222" x:Key="colorbrushDark" />
<LinearGradientBrush>
<GradientStop Color="{StaticResource colorbrushMedium}"/>
<GradientStop Color="{StaticResource colorbrushDark}" Offset="1"/>
</LinearGradientBrush>
With the code example above, I am getting the following error:
Cannot convert the value in attribute 'Color' to object of type 'System.Windows.Media.Color'. '#5A5A5A' is not a valid value for property 'Color'.
The line it refers to is the line where <GradientStop Color="{StaticResource colorbrushMedium}"/>
is defined.
Any ideas?
Ok, I found the problem:
Using Color and not SolidColorBrush..
<Color x:Key="colorbrushMedium">#FF5A5A5A</Color>
<Color x:Key="colorbrushDark">#FF222222</Color>
<LinearGradientBrush>
<GradientStop Color="{StaticResource colorbrushMedium}"/>
<GradientStop Color="{StaticResource colorbrushDark}" Offset="1"/>
</LinearGradientBrush>
This seems to solve my problem!