c# - Is there any way of doing an image map on XAML?

Question

I want to create a Windows 8 application using C# and XAML.

I want to have an image with different parts of it being clickable, the same way that you can with the imagemap element in HTML.

There might be a way of doing this with individual images but it would be very difficult to position them correctly.

So is it possible to make images clickable in XAML?

Answer 1

You can surely add events to track down MouseDown and MouseUp events and convert those to your own Click event... but that doesn't sound right in WPF, with exceptions obviously. If you're making a security system that relies on customizable images with user-defined patters for clicking on the image - sure. But if you're drawing user interface in Photoshop and want to make that work - you're doing it wrong: you lose styling, vector rendering, control-specific events - the whole idea of WPF essentially.

Bottom line: unless you specify a task that justifies use of images the answer can only be: don't do it.