Using WindowChrome Library in WPF

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Hi Friends
A very Happy New Year to everyone. :)
Recently, I have jumped into WPF based development and I currently I am trying to design a custom looking Application. I don't want Windows 7 Style Chrome (the Window Border). So, I am using WindowChrome Library which is available via Microsoft.Windows.Shell.

Now, here's where I am stuck. I have used

MainWindow.xaml

XML

<shell:WindowChrome GlassFrameThickness="0" />

This actually hides the Glass Border around the Window.
Then, I created few labels so that they represent the Minimize, Maximize and Close Buttons of a Window.
The Second point is, I defined the mouse events for these Labels to behave as the three different buttons present on rightmost side of the Window and they were working when I was using this

XML

<Window.WindowStyle>None</Window.WindowStyle>

but When I used WindowChrome I set it back to

XML

<Window.WindowStyle>SingleBorderWindow</Window.WindowStyle>

Now, The WindowChrome Class I used as shown above, it hide the Chrome (The glass border) but there is surely some overlapping issues with the original buttons and my custom made controls (the labels) and the mouse event is not firing on my labels now and so, I am unable to use them that way.

Now, I am trying to somehow connect the click event of these labels to the respective buttons of a normal Window So, that they only behave as a skinning to the original control.

Here is a screenshot of my design Click Here

Please give me some pointers to move ahead.
A very Thank you to everyone.

With Regards
Tushar Srivastava

Posted 1-Jan-14 4:52am

Er. Tushar Srivastava

Updated 1-Jan-14 8:13am

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Ron Beyer · Answer 1 · 2014-01-01T05:50:00

I'm not exactly sure how you have your labels set up (if you are using label, or textblock, or what), you should really post the code for the parts that don't work rather than for the parts that do...

In your XAML:

XML

<label mouseup="Close_MouseUp" />
<label mouseup="Minimize_MouseUp" />
<label mouseup="Maximize_MouseUp" />

In your code-behind:

C#

private void Close_MouseUp(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
    this.Close();
}

private void Maximize_MouseUp(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
    if (this.WindowState == System.Windows.WindowState.Maximized)
        this.WindowState = System.Windows.WindowsState.Normal;
    else
        this.WindowState = System.Windows.WindowsState.Maximized;
}

private void Minimize_MouseUp(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
    this.WindowState = System.Windows.WindowsState.Minimized;
}

I don't think there is a way to directly bind the click event of the label to the actual buttons of the window. If there is, somebody else will have a better answer.