I simply want to open up the WPF Popup with a delay, sort of like a ToolTip.
How can I achieve this?
And, by the way, Popup.PopupAnimation = PopupAnimation.Fade ... fades in too quickly. I want at least half a second in there.
First off ... the credit for this answer goes to Eric Burke. He answered this very question posted in the WPF Disciples group. I thought it would be useful to put this answer out on StackOverflow too.
Basically, you need to animate the IsOpen property of the Popup with with a DiscreteBooleanKeyFrame.
Check out the following xaml (which can easily be pasted into Kaxaml or another loose xaml editing utility):
<Page
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
>
<ContentPresenter>
<ContentPresenter.ContentTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Grid>
<CheckBox
x:Name="cb"
Width="100"
Height="40"
Content="Hover Over Me"
/>
<Popup
x:Name="popup"
Placement="Bottom"
PlacementTarget="{Binding ElementName=cb}"
>
<Border Width="400" Height="400" Background="Red"/>
</Popup>
</Grid>
<DataTemplate.Triggers>
<Trigger SourceName="cb" Property="IsMouseOver" Value="True">
<Trigger.EnterActions>
<BeginStoryboard x:Name="bsb">
<Storyboard>
<BooleanAnimationUsingKeyFrames
Storyboard.TargetName="popup"
Storyboard.TargetProperty="IsOpen"
FillBehavior="HoldEnd"
>
<DiscreteBooleanKeyFrame KeyTime="0:0:0.5" Value="True"/>
</BooleanAnimationUsingKeyFrames>
</Storyboard>
</BeginStoryboard>
</Trigger.EnterActions>
<Trigger.ExitActions>
<StopStoryboard BeginStoryboardName="bsb"/>
</Trigger.ExitActions>
</Trigger>
</DataTemplate.Triggers>
</DataTemplate>
</ContentPresenter.ContentTemplate>
</ContentPresenter>
</Page>
Please note that I modified his original solution slightly ... to trigger the IsOpen on mouse over versus checking the CheckBox as he had it. All in the attempt to make Popup behave a little like ToolTip.