Find control position on canvas

wpf canvas frameworkelement
user337816 picture user337816 · Jul 22, 2010 · Viewed 24.8k times · Source

I have a Canvas which contains a few Textblocks and I need to find the top and left corner points that were assigned in the XAML Document. How can I get those two properties?

When I loop through the Framework Elements on the Canvas I can't seem to find those to properties listed.

Answer

HCL picture HCL · Jul 22, 2010

Here some examples how to get the values:

foreach(FrameworkElement fe in canvas.Children){

   // example 0
   double top=(double)fe.GetValue(Canvas.TopProperty);
   double left=(double)fe.GetValue(Canvas.LeftProperty);

   // example 1
   double top1=Canvas.GetTop(fe);
   double left1=Canvas.GetLeft(fe);

}

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms749011.aspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.canvas.top.aspx for more information

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