WinRT/Phone 8.1 - Listening To Manipulations Inside ScrollViewer

Question

I simply cannot find a way to get a ScrollViewer to share manipulation events. As soon as I put something inside a ScrollViewer and then set that items ManipulationMode, the ScrollViewer stops working

I have read that the ScrollViewer handles all of these events and stops them bubbling up, but there MUST be a way to get around this without disabling the ScrollViewer's scrolling behaviour.

I am very simply trying to implement a horizontal swipe feature on items in an ItemsControl, which is inside a ScrollViewer. (I have disabled the ScrollViewer's Horizontal scrolling mechanisms to no avail)

Without the ScrollViewer wrapped around it, everything works fine.

Any ideas anyone ? I cannot believe that this simple UI gesture cannot be implemented.

Many thanks

Dean

Answer 1

You can use a ListView to get the built-in cross-slide/swipe behavior if that's what you need. Otherwise - the last time I had to implement dragging out of a list - I put a rectangle in front of the ScrollViewer and captured all input events and then manually handled ScrollViewer scrolling. It's a bad idea, but there is no better choice yet.