Silverlight Canvas on Scrollviewer not triggering

Question

Why does this work so well in wpf

<ScrollViewer HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
<Canvas x:Name="MyDesigner">
</Canvas>
</ScrollViewer>

Now when I do the same thing in silverlight and load an control "that can be dragged" the scrollbars are not triggered, when I drag out of view, nothing happens... but in wpf it automatically shows them...

Answer 1

As a quick check against the normal 'gotcha' have you explicitly set the canvas height / width properties?

If I knock up some xaml for test purposes and run it:

 <ScrollViewer HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
     <Canvas x:Name="test" Background="Beige">
         <TextBlock Canvas.Left="2000" Canvas.Top="200" Text="test"/>
     </Canvas> 
 </ScrollViewer>

Will not show a scroll bar, even though I have explicitly created content in the canvas 2000 to the left, the canvas width not being set means the scroll viewer has no range to bind to so to speak. The canvas without a width is considered is just infinitely wide from what I can see. Whilst this is not the same as dragging the concept of putting a piece of content outside of the current view is there.

As soon as you add a width, it defines a finite area to scroll on and the scroll bar shows up.

Answer 2

Here is the solution I found. The canvas can grow dynamically, but you will need to explicitly set the height to a new value. So, if you have 20 textblocks with a height of 21, you need to set the canvas height as: Canvas.Height = 22.0 * 100; for the scrollviewer to pick up the new height.

    //MainPage.xaml

    <Canvas Canvas.Left="5" Canvas.Top="25"  >
          <ScrollViewer Width="300" Height="700"  x:Name="CanSummaryScroller">
              <Canvas x:Name="canSummaryCells"  >
              </Canvas>
          </ScrollViewer>  
    </Canvas>

     //MainPage.xaml.cs
     //boxDevSumList is a List of TextBoxes

 for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
            {
                boxDevSumList.Add(new Cell());
                (boxDevSumList.ElementAt(i)).Width = 271;
                (boxDevSumList.ElementAt(i)).Height = 21;
                (boxDevSumList.ElementAt(i)).SetValue(FontFamilyProperty, new FontFamily("Calibri"));
                (boxDevSumList.ElementAt(i)).FontSize = 12;
                (boxDevSumList.ElementAt(i)).Text = "this is a test";
                if (i.Equals(1) || i.Equals(3) || i.Equals(5) || i.Equals(7) || i.Equals(9))
                    (boxDevSumList.ElementAt(i)).Background = lgBrush;
                (boxDevSumList.ElementAt(i)).Opacity = .9;
                canSummaryCells.Children.Add(boxDevSumList.ElementAt(i));
                boxDevSumList.ElementAt(i).SetValue(Canvas.TopProperty, (double)(i * 21) + 45);
                boxDevSumList.ElementAt(i).SetValue(Canvas.LeftProperty, 4.0);
                canSummaryCells.Height = 22.0 * 100;
            }