Thursday, April 14, 2011

MultiSelect ListBox in Silverlight - Use SelectedItems Behavior

I have used the existing SelectedItems Behavior by added following features.
- Show the selected items, when collection rebinded
- Update selected items when collection Changed


public static class SelectedItems
{
private static readonly DependencyProperty SelectedItemsBehaviorProperty =
DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached(
"SelectedItemsBehavior",
typeof(SelectedItemsBehavior),
typeof(ListBox),
null);

public static readonly DependencyProperty ItemsProperty = DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached(
"Items",
typeof(IList),
typeof(SelectedItems),
new PropertyMetadata(null, ItemsPropertyChanged));

public static void SetItems(ListBox listBox, IList list)
{ listBox.SetValue(ItemsProperty, list); }
public static IList GetItems(ListBox listBox)
{ return listBox.GetValue(ItemsProperty) as IList; }

private static void ItemsPropertyChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
var target = d as ListBox;
if (target != null && e.NewValue != null)
{
SelectedItemsBehavior itemsBehavior = GetOrCreateBehavior(target, e.NewValue as IList);
itemsBehavior.RemoveSelectionChangedHandler();
target.SelectedItems.Clear();
foreach (var item in e.NewValue as IList)
{
target.SelectedItems.Add(item);
}
itemsBehavior.AddSelectionChangedHandler();
}
}

private static SelectedItemsBehavior GetOrCreateBehavior(ListBox target, IList list)
{
var behavior = target.GetValue(SelectedItemsBehaviorProperty) as SelectedItemsBehavior;
if (behavior == null)
{
behavior = new SelectedItemsBehavior(target, list);
target.SetValue(SelectedItemsBehaviorProperty, behavior);
}
else
{
behavior.SetNewList(list);
}

return behavior;
}
}

public class SelectedItemsBehavior
{
private readonly ListBox _listBox;
private IList _boundList;

public SelectedItemsBehavior(ListBox listBox, IList boundList)
{
_boundList = boundList;
_listBox = listBox;
_listBox.Loaded += new RoutedEventHandler(_listBox_Loaded);
AddCollectionChangedHandler();

}

void SelectedItemsBehavior_CollectionChanged(object sender, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
RemoveSelectionChangedHandler();
_listBox.SelectedItems.Clear();
foreach (var item in _boundList)
{
_listBox.SelectedItems.Add(item);
}
AddSelectionChangedHandler();
}

void _listBox_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
foreach (var item in _boundList)
{
_listBox.SelectedItems.Add(item);
}
}

private void OnSelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
RemoveCollectionChangedHandler();
_boundList.Clear();

foreach (var item in _listBox.SelectedItems)
{
_boundList.Add(item);
}
AddCollectionChangedHandler();
}

public void SetNewList(IList boundList)
{
RemoveCollectionChangedHandler();
_boundList = boundList;
AddCollectionChangedHandler();
}

public void AddSelectionChangedHandler()
{
_listBox.SelectionChanged += OnSelectionChanged;
}

public void RemoveSelectionChangedHandler()
{
_listBox.SelectionChanged -= OnSelectionChanged;
}

public void AddCollectionChangedHandler()
{
if (_boundList == null) return;
(_boundList as INotifyCollectionChanged).CollectionChanged += new NotifyCollectionChangedEventHandler(SelectedItemsBehavior_CollectionChanged);
}

public void RemoveCollectionChangedHandler()
{
if (_boundList == null) return;
(_boundList as INotifyCollectionChanged).CollectionChanged -= new NotifyCollectionChangedEventHandler(SelectedItemsBehavior_CollectionChanged);
}

}

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

are u sure it works?

maybe you can post a complete example? I wonder why your behavior class does not inherit from behavior class.

Unknown said...

This works really well, thanks!

Anonymous said...

Thank you. This helped me well. I had to make a few tweaks on the article to work with my ICollectionView. But all is well.