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WPF textbox - how to refresh associated textboxes when data changes

Hi
I have three textboxes. one to hold a value, one to hold a percentage and one to hold the answer to a calculation using the value and percentage.
They are all bound to the current view and work correctly on initial load of data.

They are defined like this
<TextBox x:Name="AppLicPer" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="2" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="5" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="{Binding Path=CurrentlyViewingApplication.AppLicPer}"
VerticalContentAlignment="Center" TextAlignment="Right" Width="50" />

<TextBox x:Name="AppLicValue" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="3" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="5" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="{Binding Path=CurrentlyViewingApplication.AppLicValue}"
VerticalContentAlignment="Center" TextAlignment="Right" Width="50" />

<TextBox x:Name="AppAmountDue" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="4" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="5" TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="{Binding Path=CurrentlyViewingApplication.AppAmountDue}"
VerticalContentAlignment="Center" TextAlignment="Right" Width="50" />

If I change either the value (AppLicValue) or the percentage (AppLicPer) how do I get the textbox that holds the answer to refresh (AppAmountDue)?

In winform I would use an after_update event, recalc and write the answer to the textbox.

How can I achieve this in WPF?
Thanks
Andy

Éric Moreau

You need to set te Mode on your data binding:

Text="{Binding Path=CurrentlyViewingApplication.AppLicValue, Mode=TwoWay}"

ieg

ASKER

Hi Eric
Thanks for the comment - I use your web site regularly, great source of info

I experimented with your idea. The Mode=TwoWay seems to control the binding of the control itself and not the content of other textboxes
My problem seems to have been caused by my use of sub properties CurrentlyViewingApplication.AppLicPer
Doing this didn't give me any way of controlling what happened when the AppLicPer value changed (only when something on CurrentlyViewingApplication changed and I didn't want this area re calculating every time something changed anywhere on the record.)

So I created a method specifically for this control binding and that allowed me to do a NotifyPropertyChanged on the AppAmountDue control

public decimal? AppLicPer
{
get
{
if (_CurrentlyViewingApplication != null)
return _CurrentlyViewingApplication.AppLicPer;
else return null;
}
set
{
_CurrentlyViewingApplication.AppLicPer = value.Value;
NotifyPropertyChanged("AppAmountDue");
}

}

These new MVVM concepts take some getting used to when coming from a traditional winform background
Thanks for your help

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