So I have a horizontal listview with items. I calculate the size of these items so that exactly 6 are visible at once.
Now I would like that when the user swipes left or right, it scrolls, and when the scroll starts to decelerate, that it goes to the nearest page (like the home screen of any iOS or Android device).
Is there a way to do this simply? I mean easy like setting a property on the listview? Or do I need to calculate all these things myself?
I think the functionality you mention (scroll left or right between pages) is very similar to Pivot control. You may consider having a Pivot control with individual ListView's or GridView's, and you can populate this control at runtime.
Pagination of List view could be an overhead. I am not aware of any easy way for that. As mentioned by Dmitri, use pivot or flip view to make it easy.
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I've been tasked at work with creating a UserControl containing a ListView and ComboBox's for sorting the ListView data. Sorting with the Combobox's s the easy part; the part with which I'm having difficulty is implementing a method of scrolling. In the end, the control should have an Excel-like feel to it. However, sometimes the ListView is too tall or wide for where it is placed. Therefore, there two be two scrollbars somewhere on the control. One vertically moves of the ListView only, and the other moves both the ListView and ComboBox filters horizontally.
Please note in the image above that the ComboBox's do adjust themselves according to column width, but the code for that is not enabled at the moment.
What I've tried: In the control, the filter boxes are in their own panel, and the ListView has had its own panel at times. I've tried using various combinations of the HScroll/VScroll and HorizontalScroll/VerticalScroll properties and the native function ShowScrollBar() for all the controls, but nothing has worked. The only way I've gotten scrollbars to appear is by settings AutoScroll (Scrollable for the ListView) to true. Of course, the scroll bars come in pairs and work only on the same control. I also attempted to programmatically move the scroll bars, but I haven't been able to accomplish that, either.
I've got to be doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what it is. Any help is appreciated!
I think I'd go for a different solution.
If you put the ComboBoxes in a AutoSrcoll panel with the same Anchors as the ListView you would give your users the freedom to scroll the two independently.
Yes, a ScrollBar would appear and take space but I would still happily sell that as a feature, not a bug ;-)
As for handling the Scroll event of a ListView: It is hidden and you'll have to subclass it to get access to it. See here
I'm developing a windows form application using c#. How can I set a space between items in a checked list box?
You can't, increasing the font size is all you got. Not exactly a control that's suitable for a touch screen. You can re-implement it with ListBox.DrawMode and ControlPaint.DrawCheckBox().
The better selection here is a ListView with View = Tile, easy to hit with your thumb when you make the tile big enough. You can't use ListView.CheckBoxes anymore, using an icon is a good choice. Also automatically takes care of the user only selecting one item.
Looks like you could go with a ListView (which always always always ist the better choice anyway) and a (dummy) imagelist. See
here and here.
Just tried it and it's really easy: Add an imagelist to your form; set its imagesize width to something small and its height to your liking and apply it as the listview's stateimagelist. No need for any actual images.
No need to go for tiles and you could add prices in a 2nd column, even with a different font.. ListView rules ;-)
Let us see the final result! Yumm!!
Under the Behavior Properties, look for ColumnWidth
I need to create an app for TV guide. Requirement is that UI must be a copy of one you can see here: raspored.bnet.hr. As you can see, there's a lot of data. So, basically it would be a large scrollable table. Since there is no such UI control as table on Windows Phone, I found out that the best approach would be to create one vertical listbox with horizontal listboxes as its items. This is all ok and I'm able to create it. But, to make it behave like a table I also need to make these horizontal listboxes scroll in sync, not to scroll one row at a time. Then I disabled horizontal scroll on horizontal listboxes, and enabled it on the parent (vertical) listbox and while it gave the result I wanted to achieve one big problem came up - UI virtualization. I know ListBox has UI virtualization enabled by default and I can see it while scrolling on vertical listbox, but when I disable horizontal scroll on horizontal listboxes, performance is really bad, and sometimes there's an OutOfMemoryException. I understand why this happens because when I disabled horizontal scroll, those listboxes didn't know which items are on screen anymore, so the loaded all of them into memory.
What I also tried is to leave scroll on every listbox so they have UI virtualization, and then place ScrollViewer above them. Then I tried to listen on Manipulation events on scrollviewer and progamatically scroll all of the listboxes as needed. This didn't work good, first of all ManipulationDelta event doesn't appear to fire frequently enough to make scrolling smooth, and I think there could be a performance problem with calling ScrollToHorizontalOffset on ~180 listboxes.
I also tried the LongListSelector from WP8 as I read that it has much better UI virtualization and should be used instead of ListBox. The problem with this is that I couldn't make it scroll horizontally. Is it possible at all? I tried to wrap it into ScrollViewer which can scroll horizontally and it's working, but only if I set fixed width on LLS.
I also tried Telerik's RadDataBoundListBox and the problem was similar, I can't get both horizontal and vertical scrolls on the same listbox. So I could only get that each list scrolls on its own.
Can someone tell me if they had similar situation and what would be the best approach to solve this? I believe I'm not the only one that has this requirement to implement large scrollable table.
Thanks
UPDATE:
I'll just inform you that I didn't find a proper way to implement this, instead I've done it in HTML with WebBrowser control. Seems like IE already has UI virtualization implemented so it can work with large pages very well.
May be in your listbox there are images? and Out of memory Execption will occur you can do 2 things:
Don't load data in one time use BackgroundWorker
Have one local image in the App of the image you are downloading and set it as default image & when you scroll to some 50 values in forward clean the image Url to local and when it comes back give again the image url you want to show .
Because i have used it to scroll around 20k values.
I understand that the Semantic Zoom control is basically implemented in XAML this way:
<SemanticZoom>
<SemanticZoom.ZoomedOutView>
<!-- Put the GridView for the zoomed out view here. -->
</SemanticZoom.ZoomedOutView>
<SemanticZoom.ZoomedInView>
<!-- Put the GridView for the zoomed in view here. -->
</SemanticZoom.ZoomedInView>
</SemanticZoom>
What I'm confused about is, assuming I have a "start" or "main" page with six Gridviews on it, each of which will display individually when "zoomed in" to see their details, do I need a single Semantic Zoom to handle the entire collection of GridViews, or do I need a Semantic Zoom control for each GridView?
And if I only need one Semantic Zoom control to handle all of these (the Zoomed Out View will, indeed, be the same for all of them, by definition), how do I make the Zoomed In/detail view specific to the GridView selected?
IOW, if I have six GridViews with information for:
Green Bay Packers
Milwaukee Bucks
Baltimore Orioles
Rory Gallagher
Mark Twain
Abraham Lincoln
...how do I see to it that when the Zoomed In/detail view is activated, and the user "pinched out" on the "Mark Twain" grid, that the Mark Twain-specific page is displayed?
I believe you just need one Semantic Zoom control. But instead of having six different gridviews, can't you just have one bound to a grouped collection? And then your GridView can use an ItemTemplateSelector to display your different data types.
See here for itemtemplateselector: http://blogs.u2u.be/diederik/post/2012/05/22/Using-Dynamic-XAML-in-Windows-8-Metro.aspx
I can provide some code if needed.
And regarding making sure the correct GridView is selected, the semantic zoom control handles that for you.
Semantic zoom works best with a GridView bound to a grouped collection source. The zoomed in and zoomed out views only support a GridView or ListView as their child element, so if you have 6 groups, you can achieve that with a single grid view.
In terms of the zoomed out view, the same type of control can be used to represent the groups. This view can be customised to show the information that you need - e.g. The number of books in a section or maybe an overview of the section.
Handling the transition from the zoomed out view to zoomed in is easy enough, if a little convoluted in terms of setting up the binding (IIRC you need to specify the zoomed out binding in code) but moving in the other direction is not guaranteed to behave as you want it to. If the zoomed out view is only one screen wide, for example, then it doesn't make sense to try to scroll to the previously selected group.
I am not in front of my dev machine right now so I'm afraid I can't put a sample together for you, but there are lots of examples online.
I was wondering... I have a WinForms System.Windows.Forms.ListView with a bunch of ListViewItems that I'm drawing using the View.List style. Each ListViewItem has a "SmallIcon" that I fetch from the ListView's SmallImageList.
My problem is that the icons are showing too close to the border on the left. I've tried to change the bounds and the ListViewItem's Position property to no avail.
Is there anyway to have some kind of offset to ListViewItems?
The Win32 listview control doesn't have any setting to increase the space between the icon and the label (in any view, not just List). Setting ListViewItem.Position does nothing when the ListView is in List view.
A low-tech solution would be to simply prefix every ListViewItem's Text value with a single space. Slightly ugly, but oh so easy to do.
If you really want to have pixel level control, you will have to owner draw it. As always, if you are doing anything with a .NET ListView, ObjectListView makes owner drawing your items trivial.
As mentioned already, prefixing the text of all your items with a space is a super simple way to add padding. This has a pretty significant drawback, however. Once you do this, you lose the ability to find items in the ListView by simply starting to type their name while the ListView has focus.
Try adding white space to the left of your small images.
If you're using 16x16 images change to 24x16 for example by adding 8 white (or ListView Background color) pixels to the left.
If you are in ListView View LargeIcons then you can postion the text using item.position
A screenshot would be nice for an example to see exactly what you're after.
Funny thing... the Windows Explorer uses the ListView to display files and folders. i usually run my view in Report or Detail mode. i just switched it to List view mode and see the exact problem that you're describing! Yikes. Might be a bug with the Win32 object and that particular view type!
A quick workaround might be to use a Report style for the ListView with a single column or perhaps implement something yourself. The FlowLayoutPanel in .Net would work very nicely as a starting point for a custom list view.
As you are using the View.List style, I suspect you'll either need to implement some custom drawing or consider padding your images. You could also look at overriding the ListView control and manipulating it's bounds by overriding SetBoundsCore or SetClientSizeCore (or similar).
However, if the ListView were set-up for View.Details view, this could be done using the ListViewItem.IndentCount property:
The IndentCount property can be used
only when the View property of the
containing ListView is set to Details,
and the SmallImageList property of the
ListView is set. Source:MSDN
If you set the StateImageList property you can add a space of 16 px before the icons. I think you can adjust this additional space by loading an image with matching width as first entry into the StateImageList. But I have not tested this.
This thread discusses the opposite problem.