Avalonia XAML Behaviors

AvaloniaBehaviors is a port of Windows UWP version of XAML Behaviors for Avalonia XAML.

Avalonia XAML Behaviors is an easy-to-use means of adding common and reusable interactivity to your Avalonia applications with minimal code. Avalonia port is available only for managed applications. Use of XAML Behaviors is governed by the MIT License.

Example Usage

Example of using Behaviors in an Avalonia XAML application:

<Window xmlns="https://github.com/avaloniaui"
        xmlns:i="clr-namespace:Avalonia.Xaml.Interactivity;assembly=Avalonia.Xaml.Interactivity"
        xmlns:ia="clr-namespace:Avalonia.Xaml.Interactions.Core;assembly=Avalonia.Xaml.Interactions"
        Width="500" Height="400">
    <Grid RowDefinitions="Auto,100">
        <TextBox Name="textBox" Text="Hello" Grid.Row="0" Margin="5"/>
        <Button Name="changePropertyButton" Content="Change Property" Grid.Row="1" Margin="5,0,5,5">
            <i:Interaction.Behaviors>
                <ia:EventTriggerBehavior EventName="Click" SourceObject="{Binding #changePropertyButton}">
                    <ia:ChangePropertyAction TargetObject="{Binding #textBox}" PropertyName="Text" Value="World"/>
                </ia:EventTriggerBehavior>
            </i:Interaction.Behaviors>
        </Button>
    </Grid>
</Window>

More examples can be found in sample application.

Building Avalonia XAML Behaviors

First, clone the repository or download the latest zip.

git clone https://github.com/wieslawsoltes/AvaloniaBehaviors.git
git submodule update --init --recursive

Build using IDE

• Visual Studio Community 2017 for Windows builds.
• MonoDevelop for Linux builds.

Open AvaloniaBehaviors.sln in selected IDE and run Build command.

Build on Windows using script

• .NET Core.

Open up a command-prompt and execute the commands:

.\build.ps1

Build on Linux using script

• .NET Core.

Open up a terminal prompt and execute the commands:

./build.sh

Build on OSX using script

• .NET Core.

Open up a terminal prompt and execute the commands:

./build.sh

NuGet

Avalonia XamlBehaviors is delivered as a NuGet package.

You can find the packages here NuGet and install the package like this:

Install-Package Avalonia.Xaml.Behaviors

or by using nightly build feed:

• Add https://www.myget.org/F/xamlbehaviors-nightly/api/v2 to your package sources
• Update your package using XamlBehaviors feed

and install the package like this:

Install-Package Avalonia.Xaml.Behaviors -Pre

NuGet Packages

• Avalonia.Xaml.Interactivity - Core library.
• Avalonia.Xaml.Interactions - Default actions and behaviors.
• Avalonia.Xaml.Interactions.Custom - Custom actions and behaviors.
• Avalonia.Xaml.Behaviors - Meta package containing core library and default actions and behaviors

Package Dependencies

• Avalonia
• System.Reactive
• System.Reactive.Core
• System.Reactive.Interfaces
• System.Reactive.Linq
• System.Reactive.PlatformServices
• Serilog
• Splat
• Sprache

Package Sources

• https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json
• https://www.myget.org/F/avalonia-ci/api/v2

Resources

• GitHub source code repository.

License

Avalonia XAML Behaviors is licensed under the MIT license.