How to wait for state changing transition to finish in Silverlight 4?

Question

I need to change state of a control and then do some action. To be specific, I want to run an animation before a control is hidden. I would like to do something like that:

VisualStateManager.GoToState(control, "Hidden", true); // wait until the transition animation is finished
ParentControl.Children.Remove(control);

The problem is that the transition animation is run asynchronously and thus the control is removed from the visual tree right after the animation is started.

So how do I wait for the animation to finish?

Answer 1

You can attach a Storyboard.Completed event handler to the Storyboard or attach a VisualStateGroup.CurrentStateChanged event handler to the VisualStateGroup:

<UserControl
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" mc:Ignorable="d"
x:Class="SilverlightApplication7.MainPage"
Width="640" Height="480">

<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">
    <VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
        <VisualStateGroup x:Name="VisualStateGroup" >
            <VisualState x:Name="Hidden">
                <Storyboard Completed="OnHidden">
                    <DoubleAnimation Duration="0" To="1" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Opacity)" Storyboard.TargetName="rectangle" d:IsOptimized="True"/>
                </Storyboard>
            </VisualState>
        </VisualStateGroup>
    </VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
    <Rectangle x:Name="rectangle" Fill="#FFF4F4F5" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="136" Margin="48,72,0,0" Opacity="0" Stroke="Black" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="208"/>
</Grid>

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Animation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;

namespace SilverlightApplication7
{
public partial class MainPage : UserControl
{
    public MainPage()
    {
        // Required to initialize variables
        InitializeComponent();

        this.Loaded += new RoutedEventHandler(MainPage_Loaded);
    }

    void MainPage_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        VisualStateManager.GoToState(this, "Hidden", true);
    }

    private void OnHidden(object storyboard, EventArgs args)
    {

    }
}

}