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Configuring Busy Indicator Display (xamBusyIndicator)

Topic Overview

Purpose

This topic explains how to display the xamBusyIndicator™ control.

Required background

The following topics are prerequisites to understanding this topic:

Topic Purpose

This topic explains the features supported by the control from developer perspective.

This topic provides an overview of the visual elements of the control.

In this topic

This topic contains the following sections:

Configuring Busy Indicator Display

Overview

Use the XamBusyIndicator IsBusy property to display the xamBusyIndicator control.

By default, the initial value of the IsBusy property is False.

Use the IsIndicatorVisible property to track if the xamBusyIndicator content is actually visible. This property is read-only.

The IsIndicatorVisible property is useful in some cases – for example when IsBusy is set to True and DisplayAfter is set to some interval. In this scenario, the xamBusyIndicator content is not visible, until the interval has elapsed. After that, the IsIndicatorVisible property is internally set to True.

Property settings

The following table maps the desired behavior to the property settings that manage it.

In order to: Use this property: And set it to:

Activate/deactivate the xamBusyIndicator control

bool

Example

The screenshot below demonstrates how the xamBusyIndicator looks as a result of the following settings:

Property Value

true

Configuring Busy Indicator Display 1.png

Following is the code that implements this example.

In XAML:

<ig:XamBusyIndicator IsBusy="True" />

Related Topics

The following topics provide additional information related to this topic.

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This topic explains how to configure the delay before displaying the xamBusyIndicator control.

This topic explains how to configure explicitly which UIElement receives the focus when the xamBusyIndicator is no longer active.

This topic explains how to configure the xamBusyIndicator control to display determine progress.

This topic explains how to customize the xamBusyIndicator overlay style.

This topic explains how to customize the xamBusyIndicator control default animations brushes.