// We want to dynamically generate the buttons and their text based on the number of "IDs" gathered in the View Model
// Unfortunately, XAML doesn't support looping statements of any kind, so I had to move the parent XAML code into this code-behind class
// This feels messy, but I'm sure there's a better way by creating a custom control?
private Grid CreateGridOfButtons(CategoriesViewModel vmContext)
{
var tileGrid = new Grid
{
Padding = ButtonGridPadding,
VerticalOptions = ButtonGridVertOptions,
HorizontalOptions = ButtonGridHorzOptions,
RowSpacing = ButtonGridRowSpacing,
ColumnSpacing = ButtonGridColumnSpacing,
RowDefinitions = CreateRowDefinitions(vmContext),
ColumnDefinitions = CreateColumnDefinitions(vmContext)
};
for (var i = 0; i < vmContext.GetIDsCount(); i++)
{
tileGrid.Children.Add(new ThemedPopupButton
{
Text = vmContext.GetChildIDText(i),
Command = vmContext.AlertDataPopup(i),
BackgroundColor = ThemedNavigationButton.ButtonBackgroundColor,
TextColor = ThemedNavigationButton.ButtonTextColor,
FontSize = ThemedNavigationButton.ButtonFontSize,
FontAttributes = ThemedNavigationButton.ButtonFontAttributes
}, 0, i);
}
return(tileGrid);
}
private RowDefinitionCollection CreateRowDefinitions(CategoriesViewModel vmContext)
{
var rowDefinitionCollection = new RowDefinitionCollection();
for (var i = 0; i < vmContext.GetIDsCount(); i++)
{
rowDefinitionCollection.Add(new RowDefinition {
Height = ButtonGridRowDefHeight
});
}
return(rowDefinitionCollection);
}