MaterialDesign:HintAssist.Foreground

Bug explanation

It is not possible to change the Color of the materialDesign:HintAssist.Foreground in XAML C# WPF.

Try it out:

                    <ComboBox
                              Margin="30,10,30,0"
                              VerticalAlignment="Top"
                              materialDesign:HintAssist.Foreground="Red"
                              materialDesign:HintAssist.HelperText="Component" />

Version

4.8.1

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 months ago
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

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MeisterBaumcommented, Jun 7, 2023

But why it is possible to change the opacity of HelperText with materialDesing:HintAssist.Opacity?

That is a great question! It seems there is some misalignment regarding which properties affect what…

Yeah and this is the reason why im so confused about this. I understand that you want to give a Hint and a HelperText. But something here was mixed together. Some Properties are for both and some Properties are only for Hint. This is not really good in my opinion, i would recommend to fix this in the future.

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MeisterBaumcommented, May 31, 2023

@MeisterBaum So there are 2 string properties on HintAssist which are relevant here. HintAssist.Hint and HintAssist.HelperText. They are sort of similar, but not the same. The hint resides inside of the element (ComboBox in this case), and the helper text is displayed below the element.

The HintAssist.Foreground seems to be used for the HintAssist.Hint and there is not a dedicated property for the foreground of the helper text. However, you can set HintAssist.HelperTextStyle which is a style, and there you can override the Foreground to your liking.

Can you confirm that things work as expected if you take the above into account?

Oh I apologize so much for the misunderstanding. I didn’t know that HintAssist.Foreground is only for Hint. Now that I have implemented your approach, it works without problems. However, it would be much nicer if the ability to change the HelperText color would be possible directly, so that such confusion does not occur.