Disabling swipe gesture in Windows Phone 8.1 pivot control

Question

I am making a Universal app. For the windows phone part I have implemented a pivot page in it. Now I want the swipe gesture (for navigating through different pivot items) in pivot page to be disabled so that only when a button on the first PivotItem is tapped then it shows the second PivotItem. I tried setting the IsHitTestVisible property of the Pivot control to false but then all the PivotItem are blocked.

Kartiikeya Kartiikeya · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-28T04:30:08

It goes against the WINDOWS UI Guide and shouldn't really be implemented.

However, for the sake of theory if nothing else, you could do something like this.

Consider you have 5 pivot items, give your first and last PivotItem a name as

<controls:PivotItem Header="Item1" Name="first">
...

 <controls:PivotItem Header="Item5" Name="last">

Handle the Pivot's LoadingPivotItem and LoadedPivotItem events. You can then do something like this:

//class level variable we use for the current pivot
PivotItem currentItem = null;

private void Pivot_LoadingPivotItem(object sender, PivotItemEventArgs e)
{
//if the next item is going to be "first" pivot
//and the previous item was the "last" pivot...
if (e.Item == first && currentItem == last)
{
  //...reset the Pivot back to the last one.
   mainPivot.SelectedItem = last;
}

//same theory as above but checking if we're 
//sliding to the last one from the first one
if (e.Item == last && currentItem == first)
{
   mainPivot.SelectedItem = first;
}
}

private void mainPivot_LoadedPivotItem(object sender, PivotItemEventArgs e)
{
 //once the pivot is loaded, update the currentItem
 currentItem = e.Item;
}

Hope this works.. For any queries .. revert back.

Disabling swipe gesture in Windows Phone 8.1 pivot control

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