FlowDirection Enumeration (System.Windows)

FlowDirection Enumeration

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FlowDirection Enumeration

Defines constants that specify the content flow direction for text and user interface (UI) elements.

Namespace: System.Windows
Assembly: PresentationCore (in PresentationCore.dll)

Syntax

Visual Basic

<LocalizabilityAttribute(LocalizationCategory.None, Readability := Readability.Unreadable)> _
Public Enumeration FlowDirection

[LocalizabilityAttribute(LocalizationCategory.None, Readability = Readability.Unreadable)]
public enum FlowDirection

Visual C++

[LocalizabilityAttribute(LocalizationCategory::None, Readability = Readability::Unreadable)]
public enum class FlowDirection

[<LocalizabilityAttribute(LocalizationCategory.None, Readability = Readability.Unreadable)>]
type FlowDirection

XAML Attribute Usage

<object property="enumerationMemberName" .../>

Members

	Member name	Description
	LeftToRight	Indicates that content should flow from left to right.
	RightToLeft	Indicates that content should flow from right to left.

Remarks

The flow direction of content typically corresponds to the innate flow direction of the language being represented. Hebrew and Arabic provide examples of languages that naturally flow from right-to-left. English, German, and Russian provide examples of languages that naturally flow from left-to-right.

Examples

The following example shows how to use the FlowDirection enumeration to set the FlowDirection attribute of a flow content Block element (Paragraph).

XAML

<FlowDocument>
  <Paragraph FlowDirection="LeftToRight">
    This paragraph will flow from left to right.
  </Paragraph>
</FlowDocument>

The following example shows how to use the FlowDirection enumeration programmatically.

Visual Basic

            Dim par As New Paragraph(New Run("This paragraph will flow from left to right."))
            par.FlowDirection = FlowDirection.LeftToRight

Paragraph par = new Paragraph(new Run("This paragraph will flow from left to right."));
par.FlowDirection = FlowDirection.LeftToRight;

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Platforms

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Reference

System.Windows Namespace