/// <summary>
/// Removes a ReportCell from the canvas.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="frameworkElement"></param>
/// <param name="reportCell"></param>
private void Remove(ReportCell reportCell)
{
// The visual element associated with this cell can be found using the mapping table. Once the element is found
// it is reclaimed for use later on and the data connection is severed.
FrameworkElement frameworkElement;
if (this.elementTable.TryGetValue(reportCell, out frameworkElement))
{
// This recycles the element by putting it back in the cache associated with the cell's datatype. This visual element
// can be used again when another cell with the same data type needs to be instantiated.
Type contentType = reportCell.Content.GetType();
Stack <FrameworkElement> elementStack;
if (!this.elementCache.TryGetValue(contentType, out elementStack))
{
elementStack = new Stack <FrameworkElement>();
this.elementCache.Add(contentType, elementStack);
}
elementStack.Push(frameworkElement);
// The association between the visual element and the abstract cell is removed when the element is removed from the
// canvas.
DynamicReport.SetCell(frameworkElement, ReportCell.Empty);
this.elementTable.Remove(reportCell);
// When a virtual cell is removed from the report -- as opposed to simply being made invisible -- the virtual focus
// is reset. Resetting the virtual focus is a problem because the FocusScope of the parent focus scope (as well as
// the current focus scope) maintains a link to the last visual element that had the focus. When that visual
// element goes away, there's no good way to tell the parent focus scope to change. If you sent a FocusScope's
// FocusedElement to anything other than 'null', the handler tries to set the keyboard focus as well. This has the
// undesireable effect of stealing the keyboard focus away from some other window (there's no guarantee that the
// keyboard focus is on this canvas when removing rows). Resetting the current and parent focus scopes is the best
// of some bad options.
if (reportCell.IsFocused)
{
this.ReportGrid.ClearFocusedCell();
FocusManager.SetFocusedElement(this.ReportGrid, null);
FocusManager.SetFocusedElement(FocusManager.GetFocusScope(this.ReportGrid.Parent), null);
if (frameworkElement.IsKeyboardFocusWithin)
{
Keyboard.Focus(this.ReportGrid);
}
}
// The visual element can now be safely removed from the window.
this.Children.Remove(frameworkElement);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Overrides the default arrangement of a Canvas.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="arrangeSize">The largest possible size for the canvas.</param>
/// <returns>The actual size used by this canvas.</returns>
protected override Size MeasureOverride(Size constraint)
{
// This calculates the visible area of the virtual canvas. Note that the 'MeasureOverride' is called before the
// 'OnRenderSizeChanged' so the rectangle used for clipping can't be used here because it hasn't been calclated
// properly yet.
Rect viewport = new Rect(this.rectangleGeometry.Rect.Location, constraint);
// IMPORTANT CONCEPT: The FrameworkElements are recycled for performance. Creating the user interface elements and
// adding and removing them from the canvas are very time consuming tasks. The XAML for the reports contains templates
// used to create FrameworkElements for a given CLR type. It turns out that any CLR object of a given type can use any
// FrameworkElement created for that given type. So a factory of sorts is created for building and reusing the
// framework elements based on a CLR type. A screen is drawn by first reclaiming all the elements that are no longer
// visible. These elements are not removed from the screen in the first pass. The secod pass draws the visible area
// of the report using reclaimed elements when it can, creating new FrameworkElements when it can't. The important
// performance kick here is that the elements are not actually removed from the screen during the reclaimation pass and
// the drawing pass. All elements are put into this list when during the reclaimation cycle. If they are still in
// this list after the drawing pass, then they are not visible and can be removed from the canvas. This is the
// reclamation cycle. All the user interface elements that have become invisible are pushed back into the element
// cache where they can be used again when the viewport is updated.
foreach (UIElement uiElement in this.Children)
{
if (uiElement is FrameworkElement)
{
// This element will be examined to see if it needs to be recycled.
FrameworkElement frameworkElement = uiElement as FrameworkElement;
// The 'ReportCell' is the virtual information behind the user interface element and is attached to all the
// visual elements in the canvas. It is used here to indicate whether the associated FrameworkElement is
// invisible.
ReportCell reportCell = DynamicReport.GetCell(frameworkElement);
try
{
if (reportCell != null)
{
// This will test the virtual cell to see if it is invisible. Note that any cell that touches the right or
// bottom edge of the viewport is considered to be invisible. There is no part of these cells that can
// actually be seen, whereas the left and top edges are visible.
Rect rect = reportCell.ActualRect;
if (((viewport.Top > rect.Top || rect.Top >= viewport.Bottom) &&
(viewport.Top >= rect.Bottom || rect.Bottom > viewport.Bottom)) ||
((viewport.Left > rect.Left || rect.Left >= viewport.Right) &&
(viewport.Left >= rect.Right || rect.Right > viewport.Right)))
{
// When the framework element has become invisible, it is placed back in the cache based on the CLR
// type of the object it can display. It can be recycled for use with similar types when the new
// viewport is constructed in the second pass.
Type contentType = reportCell.Content.GetType();
Stack <FrameworkElement> elementStack;
if (!this.elementCache.TryGetValue(contentType, out elementStack))
{
elementStack = new Stack <FrameworkElement>();
this.elementCache.Add(contentType, elementStack);
}
elementStack.Push(frameworkElement);
// This disconnects the visual element from the virtual ReportCell and the virtual ReportCell from the
// visual element.
DynamicReport.SetCell(frameworkElement, ReportCell.Empty);
this.elementTable.Remove(reportCell);
// The focus scope for this canvas must be cleared when the element that had the focus is recycled.
// This method 'virtualizes' the handling of the focus. The virtual focus is saved in the 'IsFocused'
// property of the ReportCell while the cell is invisible. When this virtual cell becomes visible
// again, the keyboard focus will be given back to to user interface element used to instantiate the
// virtual cell.
if (reportCell.IsFocused)
{
FocusManager.SetFocusedElement(this.ReportGrid, null);
if (frameworkElement.IsKeyboardFocusWithin)
{
Keyboard.Focus(this.ReportGrid);
}
}
// All these bindings need to be released when a cell is no longer visible. There seems to be a very
// practical limitation to how many binding updates can be done by the operating system. Failure to
// release a binding when a user element is no longer visible will quickly result all the resources
// being used.
BindingOperations.ClearBinding(frameworkElement, Canvas.LeftProperty);
BindingOperations.ClearBinding(frameworkElement, Canvas.TopProperty);
BindingOperations.ClearBinding(frameworkElement, FrameworkElement.WidthProperty);
BindingOperations.ClearBinding(frameworkElement, FrameworkElement.HeightProperty);
BindingOperations.ClearBinding(frameworkElement, DynamicReport.IsEvenProperty);
BindingOperations.ClearBinding(frameworkElement, DynamicReport.IsSelectedProperty);
}
}
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
String message = reportCell.ReportColumn == null ? "ReportColumn is null" : reportCell.ReportRow == null ? "ReportRow is null" : "not sure why";
EventLog.Error("{0}: {1} ({2})\n{3}", exception.GetType(), exception.Message, message, exception.StackTrace);
}
}
}
// This pass will construct the visible part of the canvas. The main idea is to find the virtual cells that appear in
// the viewport and associate the cell with a visual element. If a visual element can be found in the cache, it is
// used, otherwise one is created from a template.
foreach (ReportRow reportRow in this.ReportGrid.Rows)
{
if (reportRow.IsEmpty)
{
continue;
}
// Only rows that appear in the visible part of the canvas are considered. Evaluating the rows this way quickly
// removes the number of cells that need to be checked.
if (((viewport.Top <= reportRow.Top && reportRow.Top < viewport.Bottom) ||
(viewport.Top < reportRow.Bottom && reportRow.Bottom <= viewport.Bottom)))
{
// At this point we have a row that is part of the visible canvas. This will see which of the columns are
// visible.
foreach (ReportColumn reportColumn in this.ReportGrid.Columns)
{
// Note that columns that fall on the right edge are excluded. Even though they appear to intersect with
// the viewport, there is no part of these columns that's actally visible.
if ((viewport.Left <= reportColumn.Left && reportColumn.Left < viewport.Right) ||
(viewport.Left < reportColumn.Right && reportColumn.Right <= viewport.Right))
{
// The cell exists at a virtual location in the document coordinate system. They are instantiated and
// added to the canvas when the become visible and are remove from the canvas when not visible. This
// is how a very large document can be viewed with a relatively small number of visual elements and
// bindings.
ReportCell reportCell = reportRow[reportColumn];
// If this cell doesn't have a framework element associated with it, then one is either recycled
// from the cache or created from a template.
FrameworkElement frameworkElement;
if (!this.elementTable.TryGetValue(reportCell, out frameworkElement))
{
// Each Framework element will work with one and only one CLR type. The content of the
// ReportCell determines what kind of FrameworkElement instance is used to display the data in
// that cell.
Type contentType = reportCell.Content.GetType();
// The CLR type of the content is used to find a stack of FrameworkElements that can be used to
// display that content.
Stack <FrameworkElement> elementStack;
if (!this.elementCache.TryGetValue(contentType, out elementStack))
{
elementStack = new Stack <FrameworkElement>();
this.elementCache.Add(contentType, elementStack);
}
// If there are no instances of a visual element that can be used to display the content of
// this ReportCell, then one is generated from the template. Otherwise, a recycled element is
// used. Note that all default focus styles are removed from visual elements on the canvas as
// there these elements have a custom style applied which functions like the Microsoft Excel
// focus and selection.
if (elementStack.Count == 0)
{
DataTemplateKey dataTemplateKey = new DataTemplateKey(reportCell.Content.GetType());
DataTemplate dataTemplate = this.ReportGrid.Resources[dataTemplateKey] as DataTemplate;
if (dataTemplate != null)
{
frameworkElement = dataTemplate.LoadContent() as FrameworkElement;
frameworkElement.FocusVisualStyle = null;
}
}
else
{
frameworkElement = elementStack.Pop();
}
// This associates the visual element with the ReportCell that contains the information about
// the location of that element in the virtual document coordinate space. The 'elementTable'
// contains the reciprocal relation.
DynamicReport.SetCell(frameworkElement, reportCell);
this.elementTable.Add(reportCell, frameworkElement);
// The data context for the XAML elements is the content of the cell, not the ReportCell.
// This is done intensionally to hide the implementation details of how elements are positioned
// on the screen. It is also done to simplify the programming model for the XAML code.
frameworkElement.DataContext = reportCell.Content;
// Bind the element's 'Left' property of the element to the column's position.
Binding leftBinding = new Binding("ActualLeft");
leftBinding.Source = reportCell.ReportColumn;
BindingOperations.SetBinding(frameworkElement, Canvas.LeftProperty, leftBinding);
// Bind the element's 'Top' property of the element to the row's position.
Binding topBinding = new Binding("ActualTop");
topBinding.Source = reportCell.ReportRow;
BindingOperations.SetBinding(frameworkElement, Canvas.TopProperty, topBinding);
// Bind the element's 'Width' property of the element to the column's width.
Binding widthBinding = new Binding("ActualWidth");
widthBinding.Source = reportCell.ReportColumn;
BindingOperations.SetBinding(frameworkElement, FrameworkElement.WidthProperty, widthBinding);
// Bind the element's 'Height' property of the element to the row's height.
Binding heightBinding = new Binding("ActualHeight");
heightBinding.Source = reportCell.ReportRow;
BindingOperations.SetBinding(frameworkElement, FrameworkElement.HeightProperty, heightBinding);
// Bind the element's 'IsSelected' property to the cell's property. This property is used to
// highlight the selected cells.
Binding isSelectedBinding = new Binding("IsSelected");
isSelectedBinding.Source = reportCell;
BindingOperations.SetBinding(frameworkElement, DynamicReport.IsSelectedProperty, isSelectedBinding);
// Bind the 'Height' property of the element to the row's 'IsEven' property. This property is
// generally used to shade every other line to make it easier to follow the information on a
// row.
Binding evenBinding = new Binding("IsEven");
evenBinding.Source = reportCell.ReportRow;
BindingOperations.SetBinding(frameworkElement, DynamicReport.IsEvenProperty, evenBinding);
}
// New and recycled elements need to be added to the canvas to become part of the visible report.
if (frameworkElement.Parent == null)
{
this.Children.Add(frameworkElement);
}
// The logical (and keyboard) focus is restored to the element that has the virtual focus when the
// virtual cell is made visible again. Note that the logical focus is only moved when the canvas
// has the keyboard focus. This prevents a scenario where the canvas grabs the input focus away
// from another window when the input focus is made visible again.
if (reportCell.IsFocused)
{
if (this.IsKeyboardFocusWithin)
{
if (FocusManager.GetFocusedElement(this.ReportGrid) != frameworkElement)
{
FocusManager.SetFocusedElement(this.ReportGrid, frameworkElement);
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
// At this point, all the elements that can be recycled have been recycled. The remaining elements on the canvas that
// are not associated with a virtual report element need to be removed.
for (int index = 0; index < this.Children.Count;)
{
UIElement uiElement = this.Children[index];
if (DynamicReport.GetCell(uiElement) == ReportCell.Empty)
{
this.Children.RemoveAt(index);
}
else
{
index++;
}
}
// The base class takes care of the hard work of measuring the visible user interface elements on the canvas.
return(base.MeasureOverride(constraint));
}