UI Cookbook - The Robust Book

This section concerns common UI patterns you may want to implement yourself.

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Status Colors

Palettes.Status allows you to show the status of something with a color, (red = bad, amber = ok, green = good). You just need to give it a number between 0 and 1, and it will blend between the colors (using fancy OKLAB blending!!).

Palettes.Status.GetStatusColor(0.0f); // red
Palettes.Status.GetStatusColor(0.5f); // amber
Palettes.Status.GetStatusColor(1.0f); // green

Palettes.Status.GetStatusColor(0.25f); // blends between red and amber

Multiple Style Classes

In order to add multiple style classes to an element within its XAML file, some extra boilerplate is required:

<Control xmlns:sys="clr-namespace:System;assembly=System.Runtime">
    <Button Text="delete">
        <Button.StyleClasses>
            <sys:String>ButtonSmall</sys:String>
            <sys:String>negative</sys:String>
        </Button.StyleClasses>
    </Button>
</Control>

Last modified on June 20, 2026