Applying animated ScaleTransform in code problem

Question

I am trying to find out why the code below does not seem to work. It does not give an error - it simply doesn\'t scale. It actually does seem to work if I change it as to my

Answer 1

I was able to get it to work by tweaking your first code sample like so:

public static void StartMouseEnterAnimation(Button button) {
    Storyboard storyboard = new Storyboard();

    ScaleTransform scale = new ScaleTransform(1.0, 1.0);
    button.RenderTransformOrigin = new Point(0.5, 0.5);
    button.RenderTransform = scale;

    DoubleAnimation growAnimation = new DoubleAnimation();
    growAnimation.Duration = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(300);
    growAnimation.From = 1;
    growAnimation.To = 1.8;
    storyboard.Children.Add(growAnimation);

    Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(growAnimation, new PropertyPath("RenderTransform.ScaleX"));
    Storyboard.SetTarget(growAnimation, button);

    storyboard.Begin();
}

Instead of new PropertyPath(ScaleTransform.ScaleXProperty)), I used new PropertyPath("RenderTransform.ScaleX")), and I set the target of the storyboard to the button (not the scaleTransform itself).

Hope that helps!