TextBox watermark opacity/color override

[Waexu]

It would be great to have an ability to override watermark style. I found out that watermark changing it's opacity to 0.2 on focus using storyboard, not style. I didn't find the way to override this storyboard (any suggestions??). I'm my case old people are working with software and they barely can read watermarks despite that I've made it larger.

[timunie]

Hi @Waexu ,

as far as I can see there is no "easy" way to change the Storyboard, which comes by WPF intern performance reasons. You need to override the entire ControlTemplate.

Here is the original Template / Style: github.com/MahApps/MahApps.Metro/blob/develop/src/MahApps.Metro/Styles/Controls.TextBox.xaml

And here is the original Storyboard:

MahApps.Metro/src/MahApps.Metro/Styles/Controls.Shared.xaml

Line 17 in 07dcfc5

<Storyboard x:Key="MahApps.Storyboard.EnterGotFocus" po:Freeze="True">

Happy coding
Tim

[Waexu]

Hi @Waexu ,

as far as I can see there is no "easy" way to change the Storyboard, which comes by WPF intern performance reasons. You need to override the entire ControlTemplate.

Here is the original Template / Style: github.com/MahApps/MahApps.Metro/blob/develop/src/MahApps.Metro/Styles/Controls.TextBox.xaml

And here is the original Storyboard:

MahApps.Metro/src/MahApps.Metro/Styles/Controls.Shared.xaml

Line 17 in 07dcfc5

<Storyboard x:Key="MahApps.Storyboard.EnterGotFocus" po:Freeze="True">

Happy coding
Tim

Thank you for a reply!
Do you have any plans for customizing opacity values? I'm asking because I need to decide what to do: override ControlTemplate or just wait. Also I can implement it by myself however I never did commits to open source projects so if there are any special rules - let me know. Thank you

[timunie]

Hi @Waexu ,
I was not able to get it customized using DynamicResource or Binding, so I think it is tricky to implement customization here (I only found a workaround: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2186933/wpf-animation-binding-to-the-to-attribute-of-storyboard-animation ).

You are welcome to contribute to MahApps, but I have one point for you. There are Templates for Bugs, Feature Requests and Pull Requests. Next time, please fill them out. see: https://github.com/MahApps/MahApps.Metro/wiki/Contributing

Maybe some might find a solution for it, so you can leave this issue open.