Drawer Behaviour unaffected by Drawer Host OpenMode value

[Thomas-Giaroli]

Hello, i am learning WPF and currently developping a small desktop application. I had the need for a Side menu and that's why i looked into Material Design in XAML. My problem is that, no matter the value i assign to my Drawer host OpenMode property, it keeps pushing to the side everything else that's in my window, even though i set my value to Modal.

Is this behaviour normal and did i skip a step? I've tried the demo built with WPF (MaterialDesignDemo.exe) and everything works fine in it, so i guess i'm the one that made an error. I've also looked at the DrawerHostOpenMode enum and every value there is set to 0 except Standard, is this normal?

Here is my implementation of Drawer Host :

    <materialDesign:DrawerHost Name="MenuDrawerHost" Grid.Column="0">
        
        <materialDesign:DrawerHost.LeftDrawerContent>
        
            <Button Name="ModalTestButton" Click="ModalTestButton_Click" Width="auto" Content="Clique"/>
            
        </materialDesign:DrawerHost.LeftDrawerContent>
    
    </materialDesign:DrawerHost>

Thanks already for any support you might be able to provide me.

[nicolaihenriksen]

@Thomas-Giaroli I can see that you have Grid.Column=0 applied on the DrawerHost which effectively puts the drawer host in the first column of a table defined higher up the visual tree. Where are you placing the content which is being pushed? In a different column in that same grid? That could be the issue.

Try placing your content directly in the DrawerHost; something along these lines:

<materialDesign:DrawerHost Name="MenuDrawerHost">
  <materialDesign:DrawerHost.LeftDrawerContent>
    <Button Name="ModalTestButton" Click="ModalTestButton_Click" Width="auto" Content="Clique"/>
  </materialDesign:DrawerHost.LeftDrawerContent>

  <!-- Place your "content" here -->

</materialDesign:DrawerHost>

So basically nesting your content inside of the DrawerHost allowing it to push the drawer on top of the content.

[Thomas-Giaroli]

That was the problem, thanks a lot!