Lighty

Lighty is customizable lightbox library for WPF.

Features

• Lighty shows dialog on the same visual tree using adorner.
  • Need not to create special elements for Lighty in your xaml code.
• 3way to show lightbox.
  • Show(): show lightbox in modeless format.
  • ShowAsync(): awaitable version of Show() method.
  • ShowDialog(): Show light box modally, like a System.Windows.Window.ShowDialog() method.
• Can contain any FrameworkElement class in lightbox.(eg. Image / UserControl / etc...)
• Show/Close lightbox with animation.
• Lightbox style can be customized by setting default style of LightBox class.

Install

Clone project and build it, then add reference to your own projects.

Or, you can install Lighty by Nuget.

Install-Package Lighty

Usage

Preparation

code

Add using syntax for lighty namespace.

using SourceChord.Lighty;

XAML

Add xmlns to xaml code.

xmlns:lighty="clr-namespace:SourceChord.Lighty;assembly=Lighty"

Show Lightbox

        private void OnClickButton(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            // show UserControl(SampleDialog is derived from UserControl.)
            LightBox.Show(this, new SampleDialog());

            // show FrameworkElement.
            var image = new Image();
            image.Source = new BitmapImage(new Uri("Images/1.jpg", UriKind.Relative));
            LightBox.Show(this, image);
        }

Modal, Modeless, Async way to show lightbox

        private async void OnClickButton(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            // modeless dialog
            LightBox.Show(this, new SampleDialog());

            // async method
            await LightBox.ShowAsync(this, new SampleDialog());

            // modal dialog
            LightBox.ShowDialog(this, new SampleDialog());
        }

showing light box into selected area

Lighty is able to show lightbox into anywhere under xaml's visual tree.

The below is a sample code to show lightbox in Grid control.

<Window x:Class="LightySample.Window1"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
        xmlns:lighty="clr-namespace:SourceChord.Lighty;assembly=Lighty"
        xmlns:local="clr-namespace:LightySample"
        xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
        Title="Window1"
        Width="500"
        Height="300"
        mc:Ignorable="d">
    <Grid>
        <Button x:Name="button"
                Width="75"
                Margin="10,10,0,0"
                HorizontalAlignment="Left"
                VerticalAlignment="Top"
                Click="button_Click"
                Content="Button" />
        <Grid x:Name="subGrid"
              Width="300"
              Height="200"
              Margin="10"
              HorizontalAlignment="Right"
              VerticalAlignment="Bottom" />
    </Grid>
</Window>

        private void button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            LightBox.Show(this.subGrid, new SampleDialog());
        }

Styling

Change lightbox styles

You can customize lightbox by editing below properties.

Property	Description
Template
ItemsPanel
ItemContainerStyle
CloseOnClickBackground	Sets a value that indicating whether to close lightbox on click background.(dafault value is True)

create your own styles

You can create your own styles for light box. The way to create style is defining default style to LightBox class.

Example

    <Window.Resources>
        <Style TargetType="{x:Type lighty:LightBox}">
            <Setter Property="Template">
                <Setter.Value>
                    <ControlTemplate>
                        <Grid Background="#88F5F5DC">
                            <ItemsPresenter />
                        </Grid>
                    </ControlTemplate>
                </Setter.Value>
            </Setter>
        </style>
        <Setter Property="CloseOnClickBackground" Value="False" />
    </Window.Resources>

Animations

Lighty can customize animation by set below properties.

Property	Description
InitializeStoryboard	Sets an animation for showing lightbox's background.
DisposeStoryboard	Sets an animation for hiding lightbox's background.
OpenStoryboard	Sets an animation for showing lightbox's content.
CloseStoryboard	Sets an animation for hiding lightbox's content.

parallel execution

Lighty executes InitializeStoryboard & OpenStoryboard sequentially. (same as CloseStoryboard & DisposeStoryboard)

If you want to excecute InitializeStoryboard & OpenStoryboard in parallel, set IsParallelInitialize="True".

Property	Description
IsParallelInitialize	Sets a value that determines whether InitializeStoryboard & OpenStoryboard should execute in parallel.
IsParallelDispose	Sets a value that determines whether CloseStoryboard & DisposeStoryboard should execute in parallel.

builtin styles

Lighty provides some usefull built in styles.

Property	Name
Template	DarkBackgroundTemplate
	LightBackgroundTemplate
	DarkGlassTemplate
	LightGlassTemplate
ItemsPanel	HorizontalPanel
	VerticalPanel
ItemContainerStyle	ClosableContainerStyle
	PhotoCardStyle
Animations	FadeInAnimation
	FadeOutAnimation
	ZoomInAnimation
	ZoomOutAnimation

Example

    <Window.Resources>
        <Style TargetType="{x:Type lighty:LightBox}">
            <Setter Property="Template" Value="{StaticResource DarkBackgroundTemplate}" />
            <Setter Property="ItemsPanel" Value="{StaticResource HorizontalPanel}" />
            <Setter Property="ItemContainerStyle" Value="{StaticResource PhotoCardStyle}" />
        </Style>
    </Window.Resources>

Lisence

MIT