syncfusion-wpf-percent-textbox

name	syncfusion-wpf-percent-textbox
description	Use this skill when implementing Syncfusion WPF PercentTextBox controls for percentage input handling. Provides comprehensive guidance on value binding, min/max validation, number formatting with culture support, appearance customization with positive/negative/zero foregrounds, interactive features like scroll intervals and range adorners, watermark text, and data binding patterns for percentage-based input controls with international format support.
metadata	{"author":"Syncfusion Inc","version":"34.1.29"}

Implementing Syncfusion WPF PercentTextBox

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user needs to:

• Implement percentage input controls in WPF applications with value restrictions and formatting
• Configure value validation with minimum/maximum limits and validation timing (OnKeyPress vs OnLostFocus)
• Apply number formatting with culture-specific separators, decimal digits, and group sizes
• Customize appearance with different foreground colors for positive, negative, and zero values
• Enable interactive features like scroll intervals, mouse wheel support, click-and-drag value changes
• Display visual progress using range adorner to show value relative to min/max range
• Bind percentage data from ViewModels with property change notifications
• Handle null values with custom null displays or watermark text
• Implement international formats with culture-based decimal/group separators and percent symbols

The PercentTextBox control restricts input to double values and displays them as percentages with extensive customization options for data binding, validation, formatting, and appearance.

Component Overview

The Syncfusion WPF PercentTextBox is a specialized input control that:

• Restricts input to double values only (no text allowed)
• Displays values as percentages with customizable symbols and patterns
• Supports min/max value validation with configurable validation timing
• Provides data binding support for MVVM patterns
• Offers culture-specific formatting with group separators and decimal digits
• Allows different foreground colors for positive, negative, and zero values
• Supports interactive value changes via keyboard arrows, mouse wheel, and click-drag
• Includes range adorner for visual progress indication
• Handles null values with watermark text support
• Provides built-in visual styles and themes

Documentation and Navigation Guide

Getting Started

📄 Read: references/getting-started.md

Use this reference when you need to:

• Add PercentTextBox to a WPF project (via designer, XAML, or C#)
• Configure assembly deployment and NuGet packages (Syncfusion.Shared.WPF)
• Understand basic PercentValue property usage
• Set up initial control dimensions and placement
• Learn the basic control declaration patterns

Value Management and Binding

📄 Read: references/value-management.md

Use this reference when you need to:

• Set and change percentage values using PercentValue property
• Implement data binding (unidirectional or bidirectional) with ViewModels
• Handle PercentValueChanged events to track value changes
• Configure null value behavior with NullValue and UseNullOption properties
• Display watermark text when control is empty or null
• Customize watermark appearance with foreground colors or templates
• Control paste behavior with PasteMode property (Default vs Advanced)
• Add spin buttons for increment/decrement operations

Validation and Restrictions

📄 Read: references/validation-and-restrictions.md

Use this reference when you need to:

• Restrict values within minimum and maximum limits (MinValue, MaxValue)
• Configure validation timing (MinValidation, MaxValidation: OnKeyPress vs OnLostFocus)
• Control behavior when exceeding limits (MaxValueOnExceedMaxDigit, MinValueOnExceedMinDigit)
• Restrict decimal digit count with MinPercentDecimalDigits and MaxPercentDecimalDigits
• Understand property precedence for decimal digit settings
• Enable read-only mode while allowing text selection and caret visibility
• Prevent invalid input at key press vs validating on focus lost

Number Formatting and Culture

📄 Read: references/number-formatting.md

Use this reference when you need to:

• Apply culture-specific formatting with Culture property
• Configure NumberFormatInfo for custom number patterns
• Set group separators (PercentGroupSeparator) and group sizes (PercentGroupSizes)
• Customize decimal separators and digit counts
• Change percentage symbol (PercentageSymbol)
• Enable group separator display with GroupSeperatorEnabled
• Define positive value patterns (PercentPositivePattern: 4 options)
• Define negative value patterns (PercentNegativePattern: 12 options)
• Understand property precedence (dedicated properties vs NumberFormat vs Culture)

Appearance Customization

📄 Read: references/appearance-customization.md

Use this reference when you need to:

• Set different foreground colors for positive values (PositiveForeground)
• Apply negative foreground with ApplyNegativeForeground and NegativeForeground
• Display zero values with custom color (ApplyZeroColor, ZeroColor)
• Customize background brush for the control
• Apply corner radius for rounded borders
• Configure selection brush and opacity for highlighted text
• Align text (Left, Center, Right) using TextAlignment
• Add tooltips with custom information

Interactive Features

📄 Read: references/interactive-features.md

Best Practices

📄 Read: references/best-practices.md

Use this reference when you need to:

• Configure scroll interval for value increments/decrements
• Enable keyboard navigation with Up/Down arrow keys
• Allow mouse wheel scrolling with IsScrollingOnCircle
• Enable click-and-drag value changes with EnableExtendedScrolling
• Control text selection behavior on focus (TextSelectionOnFocus)
• Display spin buttons for manual increment/decrement
• Enable range adorner for visual progress indication (EnableRangeAdorner)
• Customize range adorner background color
• Understand min/max requirements for range adorner display

Quick Start Example

Basic PercentTextBox in XAML

<Window xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:syncfusion="http://schemas.syncfusion.com/wpf"
    x:Class="PercentTextBoxSample.MainWindow">
    <Grid>
        <syncfusion:PercentTextBox x:Name="percentTextBox" 
                                   Width="150" 
                                   Height="30"
                                   PercentValue="75.5"
                                   MinValue="0"
                                   MaxValue="100"/>
    </Grid>
</Window>

Basic PercentTextBox in C#

using Syncfusion.Windows.Shared;

// Create instance
PercentTextBox percentTextBox = new PercentTextBox();
percentTextBox.Width = 150;
percentTextBox.Height = 30;

// Set value and limits
percentTextBox.PercentValue = 75.5;
percentTextBox.MinValue = 0;
percentTextBox.MaxValue = 100;

// Add to container
this.Content = percentTextBox;

Data Binding Example

<!-- XAML -->
<syncfusion:PercentTextBox PercentValue="{Binding DiscountPercentage, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"
                           Width="150" Height="30"
                           MinValue="0" MaxValue="100"/>

// ViewModel.cs
public class ViewModel : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    private double discountPercentage;
    public double DiscountPercentage
    {
        get { return discountPercentage; }
        set
        {
            discountPercentage = value;
            OnPropertyChanged(nameof(DiscountPercentage));
        }
    }

    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;
    protected void OnPropertyChanged(string propertyName)
    {
        PropertyChanged?.Invoke(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
    }
}

Common Patterns

Pattern 1: Percentage Input with Validation

When user needs a percentage input with immediate validation on keypress:

<syncfusion:PercentTextBox PercentValue="50"
                           MinValue="0"
                           MaxValue="100"
                           MinValidation="OnKeyPress"
                           MaxValidation="OnKeyPress"
                           MaxValueOnExceedMaxDigit="True"
                           MinValueOnExceedMinDigit="True"/>

Why this works: OnKeyPress validation prevents invalid input immediately, and the exceed properties reset to limits when boundaries are crossed.

Pattern 2: Formatted Percentage with Culture

When user needs culture-specific percentage formatting:

<syncfusion:PercentTextBox PercentValue="1234.567"
                           Culture="de-DE"
                           GroupSeperatorEnabled="True"
                           PercentDecimalDigits="2"/>

Why this works: German culture uses "." for group separator and "," for decimal separator, automatically formatting the display.

Pattern 3: Color-Coded Percentage Values

When user needs visual differentiation for positive/negative/zero values:

<syncfusion:PercentTextBox PercentValue="-15"
                           PositiveForeground="Green"
                           NegativeForeground="Red"
                           ApplyNegativeForeground="True"
                           ZeroColor="Gray"
                           ApplyZeroColor="True"/>

Why this works: Different colors help users quickly identify value states without reading the number.

Pattern 4: Interactive Percentage with Scroll

When user needs quick value adjustments via keyboard/mouse:

<syncfusion:PercentTextBox PercentValue="25"
                           ScrollInterval="5"
                           IsScrollingOnCircle="True"
                           EnableExtendedScrolling="True"
                           ShowSpinButton="True"/>

Why this works: Multiple interaction methods (arrow keys, mouse wheel, spin buttons, click-drag) provide flexibility for user preference.

Pattern 5: Range Adorner for Visual Feedback

When user needs visual progress indication:

<syncfusion:PercentTextBox PercentValue="65"
                           MinValue="0"
                           MaxValue="100"
                           EnableRangeAdorner="True"
                           RangeAdornerBackground="LightBlue"/>

Why this works: Range adorner fills the control background proportionally, showing progress at a glance like a progress bar.

Pattern 6: Null Value with Watermark

When user needs placeholder text for empty state:

<syncfusion:PercentTextBox UseNullOption="True"
                           NullValue="{x:Null}"
                           WatermarkText="Enter discount %"
                           WatermarkTextIsVisible="True"
                           WatermarkTextForeground="Gray"/>

Why this works: Watermark provides user guidance when control is empty, improving UX.

Key Properties Reference

Value Properties

• PercentValue - Gets or sets the percentage value (double)
• MinValue - Minimum allowed value
• MaxValue - Maximum allowed value
• NullValue - Value to display when UseNullOption is true and value is null
• UseNullOption - Enables null value handling

Validation Properties

• MinValidation - Validation timing for minimum (OnKeyPress, OnLostFocus)
• MaxValidation - Validation timing for maximum (OnKeyPress, OnLostFocus)
• MinValueOnExceedMinDigit - Reset to MinValue when exceeded (bool)
• MaxValueOnExceedMaxDigit - Reset to MaxValue when exceeded (bool)

Formatting Properties

• Culture - Culture for number formatting (CultureInfo)
• NumberFormat - Custom NumberFormatInfo object
• PercentGroupSeparator - Character for grouping (e.g., ",")
• PercentGroupSizes - Array of group sizes (e.g., {3, 2})
• PercentDecimalSeparator - Decimal point character (e.g., ".")
• PercentDecimalDigits - Number of decimal places
• MinPercentDecimalDigits - Minimum decimal digits
• MaxPercentDecimalDigits - Maximum decimal digits
• PercentageSymbol - Percent symbol (default "%")
• GroupSeperatorEnabled - Show/hide group separator (bool)
• PercentPositivePattern - Format for positive values (0-3)
• PercentNegativePattern - Format for negative values (0-11)

Appearance Properties

• PositiveForeground - Foreground brush for positive values
• NegativeForeground - Foreground brush for negative values
• ApplyNegativeForeground - Enable negative foreground (bool)
• ZeroColor - Foreground brush for zero value
• ApplyZeroColor - Enable zero color (bool)
• Background - Control background brush
• CornerRadius - Border corner radius
• SelectionBrush - Selected text background
• SelectionOpacity - Selected text opacity (0-1)
• TextAlignment - Text alignment (Left, Center, Right)

Interactive Properties

• ScrollInterval - Increment/decrement step value
• IsScrollingOnCircle - Enable mouse wheel scrolling (bool)
• EnableExtendedScrolling - Enable click-drag scrolling (bool)
• ShowSpinButton - Display up/down buttons (bool)
• TextSelectionOnFocus - Auto-select text on focus (bool)
• EnableRangeAdorner - Show range adorner (bool)
• RangeAdornerBackground - Range adorner fill brush

Watermark Properties

• WatermarkText - Placeholder text string
• WatermarkTextIsVisible - Show watermark (bool)
• WatermarkTextForeground - Watermark text color
• WatermarkTemplate - Custom DataTemplate for watermark

Other Properties

• IsReadOnly - Prevent user editing (bool)
• IsReadOnlyCaretVisible - Show caret in read-only mode (bool)
• PasteMode - Paste behavior (Default, Advanced)
• ToolTip - Tooltip text or object

Common Use Cases

1. Discount/Tax Calculator

Use PercentTextBox for discount or tax percentage inputs with 0-100% range, 2 decimal places, and immediate validation.

2. Progress/Completion Tracker

Display project completion percentages with range adorner for visual feedback, restricted to 0-100%.

3. Financial Calculations

Handle interest rates, ROI percentages, or growth rates with culture-specific formatting and multiple decimal places.

4. Survey/Rating Systems

Collect percentage-based ratings with color-coded foregrounds (green for high, red for low).

5. Resource Allocation

Input percentage allocations (e.g., budget distribution) with validation ensuring total doesn't exceed 100%.

6. Configuration Settings

Set performance thresholds, cache sizes, or buffer percentages with scroll intervals for quick adjustments.

7. Data Analysis Forms

Collect statistical percentages with group separators for large numbers and culture-specific formatting.

8. Dashboard Controls

Display KPI percentages with range adorners showing progress toward targets, bound to live data.

---

Next Steps:

1. Read the appropriate reference file based on your specific implementation need
2. Use the quick start example as a foundation
3. Apply common patterns that match your use case
4. Refer to key properties for fine-tuning behavior and appearance