Trying to set foreground text color from resourcedictionary

Question

I am trying to create a label style that applies a foreground color defined in a brushes resource directory.

<Color x:Key="TextForegroundColor" >#8B4513</Color>

<SolidColorBrush 
    x:Key="TextForegroundColorBrush"
    Color="{Binding Source={StaticResource TextForegroundColor}, Path=Color}" />

<ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
                xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">

<Style x:Key="MVILabelStyle" TargetType="{x:Type Label}">
    <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Right" />
    <Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Center" />
    <Setter Property="Foreground" Value="{StaticResource TextForegroundColorBrush}" />
</Style>

When I run the app, the foreground is not applied, but all of the others are. What am I doing wrong?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 23 '20 at 14:37

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The Binding

Color="{Binding Source={StaticResource TextForegroundColor}, Path=Color}"

is wrong. It would require that a Color has a Color property.

You would either write

<SolidColorBrush Color="{Binding Source={StaticResource TextForegroundColor}}"/>

or just

<SolidColorBrush Color="{StaticResource TextForegroundColor}"/>

answered Aug 23 '20 at 14:37

Clemens

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Thanks for replying. I used what you said and now have : , but still no color in the actual label. – John Baird Aug 23 '20 at 15:03
No idea, are the SolidColorBrush and the Style declared in different ResourceDictionaries? – Clemens Aug 23 '20 at 16:49
Add the former to the MergedDictionaries of the latter, e.g. like here: https://stackoverflow.com/q/45687750/1136211 – Clemens Aug 23 '20 at 17:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 25 '20 at 11:46

Okay, after three days of searching, removing things, I finally found one control that applied the styles and one that didn't. In going step by step through each comparing things, I found a statement in the codebehind that disabled the control. That's what was going on. It was disabled and there fore was showing the correct style. I enabled the control, and bingo, styles applied. Thanks to all who participated.

Trying to set foreground text color from resourcedictionary

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