Windows Phone ScrollViewer not scrollable?
I am currently working on yet another application. In that application I have two pages, the MainPage where I can choose a certain phrase. Choosing one of them navigates me to my second page, where I have three TextBlocks. The length of the text varies, depending on the phrase I chose in the first page.
No problem, I thought. I’ll just put my TextBlocks in a StackPanel, And I nicely can put a ScrollViewer around the TextBlocks:
<StackPanel>
<ScrollViewer>
<TextBlock Name="TextBlock1"
Height="100"
FontSize="24"
TextWrapping="Wrap"/>
</ScrollViewer>
<ScrollViewer>
<TextBlock Name="TextBlock2"
Height="280"
FontSize="28"
Margin="10"
TextWrapping="Wrap">
</TextBlock>
</ScrollViewer>
<TextBlock Name="TextBlock3"
Height="120"
FontSize="22"
Foreground="Red"
TextWrapping="Wrap"/>
</StackPanel>Well, what sounded nice in theory did not work out. When I ran the application, I could see there is a ScrollViewer, but somehow it just bounced back to the start point whenever I tried to scroll.
The solution was quite easy in the end. I replaced the StackPanel with a Grid:
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="100" />
<RowDefinition Height="280" />
<RowDefinition Height="120" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<ScrollViewer>
<TextBlock Name="TextBlock1"
FontSize="24"
TextWrapping="Wrap"/>
</ScrollViewer>
<ScrollViewer>
<TextBlock Name="TextBlock2"
FontSize="28"
Margin="10"
TextWrapping="Wrap">
</TextBlock>
</ScrollViewer>
<TextBlock Name="TextBlock3"
FontSize="22"
Foreground="Red"
TextWrapping="Wrap"/>
</Grid>
Now I can scroll in the two TextBlocks that I need.
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Comments
Joe Mckedreck replied on Wed, 2011/12/21 - 2:59am
Hi,
I went through your trick, after this i read following article
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/yougerthen/working-with-a-scrollviewer-control-in-a-wpf-application/.
And tried a sample small app to have the same scenario.
I kept long text in textblock and kept scrollviewer above it. But not getting what happend with you exactly.
So,Can you please let me know what actually happened?
Did scrollviewer automatically scroll top when you scroll down?
Thanks,
Joe
Andrea Haubner replied on Wed, 2011/12/21 - 4:20am
in response to:
Joe Mckedreck
Hi,
I had three text blocks, two of them I needed scrollable. So naturally I put them into a ScrollViewer. When I ran it, first it looked like I can scroll through my text, but it just immediately bounced back to the top. I could not even see the rest of my text. It didn't scroll at all. Replacing the StackPanel with a Grid fixed that.
I also have a second solution: If you look at my example, I have set a Height property to the Text Block. If I remove that and set the Height of the ScrollViewer instead, I can even leave the Text Blocks in a StackPanel.
Andrea