Toggling the SplitView Pane using a Hamburger Button in a UWP Application

Yesterday (Using the Universal Windows Platform SplitView Control with Visual States and BuildIt.Lifecycle) I introduced a SplitView into my sample application where I used a couple of buttons in the content. In a lot of applications the SplitView will be triggered by either AdaptiveTriggers used in conjunection with the visual states, or via a hamburger button. Today I’ll add both of these to our application. Firstly a couple of AdaptiveTriggers added to the visual state definitions:

<VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
    <VisualStateGroup x_Name=”SplitViewStates”>
        <VisualState x_Name=”Minimised”>
            <VisualState.StateTriggers>
                <AdaptiveTrigger MinWindowWidth=”0″ />
            </VisualState.StateTriggers>
        </VisualState>
        <VisualState x_Name=”Expanded”>
            <VisualState.Setters>
                <Setter Target=”RootSplitView.(SplitView.IsPaneOpen)”
                        Value=”True” />
                <Setter Target=”RootSplitView.(SplitView.DisplayMode)”
                        Value=”Inline” />
            </VisualState.Setters>
            <VisualState.StateTriggers>
                <AdaptiveTrigger MinWindowHeight=”0″ MinWindowWidth=”600″ />
            </VisualState.StateTriggers>
        </VisualState>
    </VisualStateGroup>
</VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
As the user adjusts the width of the window the Pane of the SplitView will open and close depending on whether the window is wide enough. Secondly, I need to add a hamburger button to the layout of the page. This is a regualr button control, styled to be a hamburger button – in this case the style for the hamburger button was taken from the UWP samples.

<Button Style=”{StaticResource SplitViewTogglePaneButtonStyle}”
        Click=”splitViewToggle_Click” />

private void splitViewToggle_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    RootSplitView.IsPaneOpen = !RootSplitView.IsPaneOpen;
}

// ————————————– Page Resources ——————————

<Page.Resources>
    <ControlTemplate x_Key=”SplitViewTogglePaneButtonTemplate”
                        TargetType=”Button”>
        <Grid x_Name=”RootGrid”
                Background=”{TemplateBinding Background}”>
            <VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
                <VisualStateGroup x_Name=”CommonStates”>
                    <VisualState x_Name=”Normal” />
                    <VisualState x_Name=”PointerOver”>
                        <VisualState.Setters>
                            <Setter Target=”RootGrid.Background”
                                    Value=”{ThemeResource SystemControlBackgroundBaseLowBrush}” />
                            <Setter Target=”ContentPresenter.Foreground”
                                    Value=”{ThemeResource SystemControlHighlightBaseMediumHighBrush}” />
                        </VisualState.Setters>
                    </VisualState>
                    <VisualState x_Name=”Pressed”>
                        <VisualState.Setters>
                            <Setter Target=”RootGrid.Background”
                                    Value=”{ThemeResource SystemControlBackgroundBaseMediumLowBrush}” />
                            <Setter Target=”ContentPresenter.Foreground”
                                    Value=”{ThemeResource SystemControlHighlightBaseMediumBrush}” />
                        </VisualState.Setters>
                    </VisualState>
                    <VisualState x_Name=”Disabled”>
                        <VisualState.Setters>
                            <Setter Target=”ContentPresenter.Foreground”
                                    Value=”{ThemeResource SystemControlForegroundBaseLowBrush}” />
                        </VisualState.Setters>
                    </VisualState>
                </VisualStateGroup>
            </VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
            <ContentPresenter x_Name=”ContentPresenter”
                                Padding=”{TemplateBinding Padding}”
                                BorderBrush=”{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}”
                                BorderThickness=”{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}”
                                HorizontalContentAlignment=”{TemplateBinding HorizontalContentAlignment}”
                                VerticalContentAlignment=”{TemplateBinding VerticalContentAlignment}”
                                AutomationProperties.AccessibilityView=”Raw”
                                ContentTemplate=”{TemplateBinding ContentTemplate}”
                                ContentTransitions=”{TemplateBinding ContentTransitions}” />
        </Grid>
    </ControlTemplate>
    <Style x_Key=”SplitViewTogglePaneButtonStyle”
            TargetType=”Button”>
        <Setter Property=”Background”
                Value=”Transparent” />
        <Setter Property=”Foreground”
                Value=”{ThemeResource SystemControlForegroundBaseHighBrush}” />
        <Setter Property=”BorderBrush”
                Value=”{ThemeResource SystemControlForegroundBaseHighBrush}” />
        <Setter Property=”BorderThickness”
                Value=”0″ />
        <Setter Property=”Padding”
                Value=”0″ />
        <Setter Property=”HorizontalAlignment”
                Value=”Left” />
        <Setter Property=”HorizontalContentAlignment”
                Value=”Center” />
        <Setter Property=”VerticalAlignment”
                Value=”Top” />
        <Setter Property=”VerticalContentAlignment”
                Value=”Center” />
        <Setter Property=”UseSystemFocusVisuals”
                Value=”True” />
        <Setter Property=”FontFamily”
                Value=”{ThemeResource SymbolThemeFontFamily}” />
        <Setter Property=”Content”
                Value=”&#xE700;” />
        <Setter Property=”Height”
                Value=”48″ />
        <Setter Property=”Width”
                Value=”48″ />
        <Setter Property=”FontWeight”
                Value=”Normal” />
        <Setter Property=”FontSize”
                Value=”20″ />
        <Setter Property=”Template”
                Value=”{StaticResource SplitViewTogglePaneButtonTemplate}” />
    </Style>
</Page.Resources>

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