Questions tagged [application-bar]
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How to Change the Color of Application Bar Buttons when Pressed
An interesting question, I was wondering if it is possible to theme the application bar buttons in Windows Phone 8 to use another color other than the current accent color as the background of the button when pressed. I am currently creating my app…

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Failed to assign to property when adding new ApplicationBarMenuItem icon
I've added a new ApplicationBarMenu button with icon to a page in my wp7 project. when trying to run the page i get :
Failed to assign to property
'Microsoft.Phone.Shell.ApplicationBarIconButton.Click'. [Line: 56
Position: 124]
Which points to…

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Application bar icons name
How could I make the application bar setting or any other changes so that the names below the application bar icon are displayed by default when the page is loaded without any user interaction. Like in the this Image, but in the image at that link…

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How correct set ApplicationBarIconButton IconUri?
I specially download wp7 standart icons for AppBar, I set image build action to cotent, and copy to output copy always. But whatever I do Icon doesn't changed. What must I do?
The problem is solved.My probles is that instead…

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Change Application Bar icon color in light theme - Windows Phone 7
I have a favourite icon on the ApplicationBar that I want to change to yellow image when the item is favourited. This works well on Dark Theme but when the user change to White Theme, it becomes black all the time. Actually, the color changes to…

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How to Override Application Bar Theme using Jeff Wilcox's PhoneThemeManager
I have recently added Jeff Wilcox's PhoneThemeManager to my app, which works great, although I am having problems changing the application bar buttons to the color I wish to use. My app design specifications require using the Light Theme. The…

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different application bar in panorama windows phone for navigation
I am start developing application for Windows Phone 8.
As usual, there is something coming up. yups, that is error. LoL
I have an application using panorama, and I planning to put an appbar for each panorama item which will generate different appbar…

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Change AppBar Icons Color in Windows Phone 8
I am using ApplicationBar Icons with size 48x48 PNG files,with transparent background.
But I colored Icons as per my App theme i.e. orange, but when i tried the icon in my app it is showing me the foreground color of icon as white not orange.
How…

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Expand application bar in Windows Phone 8 app from code
I wonder if there is any way of expanding windows phone 8 application bar from code.
I know that this was not possible on windows phone 7 but maybe they done something in the SDK so its possible.
Thanks.

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How can remove the circle of ApplicationBarIconButton in windows phone?
I create the Application Bar with 4 icon Buttons and 3 normal menus. It's working fine.
But i don't want, the circle around the icon button. How can i remove that.
And another one question is how to see the icon button text in normally. That means i…

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Add/remove event subscriber in application bar item?
Why would I do that, anyway? Here it is: My application bar item respond to click like this:

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How can I programmatically open the ApplicationBar in Windows Phone
In Windows Phone, how can I programmatically open the ApplicationBar, to let users read the button labels at app start time without the need to tap on the corner dots ("...")?
Thanks in advance!

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Setting colour of application bar in C#
I define my ApplicationBar in code like that:
private void BuildApplicationBar()
{
// Set the page's ApplicationBar to a new instance of ApplicationBar.
ApplicationBar = new ApplicationBar();
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How to apply style to application bar globally?
I checked the Application bar but no style attribute is shown. I have about 10 pages that use an app bar so it would be ideal to set a style in the Application.Resources. Is it possible to apply a style to all application bars in my application?

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ApplicationBar Icons with text
Is there a way to show text along with the icons permanently rather than when a user clicks the "..."?
Or should I instead just use standard buttons instead of the application bar?

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