How to automatically scroll ScrollViewer - only if the user did not change scroll position

Question

I would like to create the following behaviour in a ScrollViewer that wraps ContentControl:
When the ContentControl height grows , the ScrollViewer should automatically scroll to the end. This is easy to achive by using ScrollViewer.ScrollToEnd().
However, if the user uses the scroll bar, the automatic scrolling shouldn't happen anymore. This is similar to what happens in VS output window for example.

The problem is to know when a scrolling has happened because of user scrolling and when it happened because the content size changed. I tried to play with the ScrollChangedEventArgsof ScrollChangedEvent, but couldn't get it to work.

Ideally, I do not want to handle all possible Mouse and keyboard events.

Answer 1

This code will automatically scroll to end when the content grows if it was previously scrolled all the way down.

XAML:

<Window x:Class="AutoScrollTest.Window1"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Height="300" Width="300">
    <ScrollViewer Name="_scrollViewer">
        <Border BorderBrush="Red" BorderThickness="5" Name="_contentCtrl" Height="200" VerticalAlignment="Top">
        </Border>
    </ScrollViewer>
</Window>

Code behind:

using System;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Threading;

namespace AutoScrollTest
{
    public partial class Window1 : Window
    {
        public Window1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            DispatcherTimer timer = new DispatcherTimer();
            timer.Interval = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 2);
            timer.Tick += ((sender, e) =>
                {
                    _contentCtrl.Height += 10;

                    if (_scrollViewer.VerticalOffset == _scrollViewer.ScrollableHeight)
                    {
                        _scrollViewer.ScrollToEnd();
                    }
                });
            timer.Start();
        }
    }
}