This is an age old problem of interactive elements inside interactive elements, but I want a ScatterViewItem to contain other surface interactive elements such as a SurfaceButton or SurfaceCheckBox. I've got all my elements in there and they react to taps etc. The problem is that I only get the normal ScatterView behavior once I click...
I am developing a program for Surface using Expression Blend and Visual Studio. I have a custom user control with an ellipse and a label in a grid. This will need to be placed in a scatterViewItem. My problem is that the scatterviewitem will cast a rectangle shaped shadow under the ellipse shaped content. I can disable the shadow comple...
I'm currently using the Surface SDK 1.0 in Blend and VS2008, and I've encountered a problem: I use a scatterview over the whole screen. I also have a grid in the middle of the screen. The panel in the middle is quite annoying because my scatterviewitems can easily get lost BEHIND the grid, and since the grid is locked in position, there ...
I have a small problem while working on software for a Surface: I have a binded ScatterView and its items have a DataTemplate. My question is : how do I set the width and height of the ScatterViewItem that it is created from the ItemTemplate? <s:ScatterView Name="svMain" Loaded="svMain_Loaded" ItemsSource="{Binding BallsCollection...
Im developing an app for Microsoft Surface and Im trying to make the most of the libraries that are out there, the functionality Im after if to be able to flick a UI element. The ScatterView control makes this easy, but I would like to restrict the UI element to only be able to be flicked along a set path. This is where Im having troub...
Hi all. I'm playin around with Surface and I'm trying to use a scatterview as a module region. <s:ScatterView cal:RegionManager.RegionName="{x:Static common:RegionNames.MainRegion}"></s:ScatterView> What happens is that when I run the app, a exception is thrown. With a litle reflection I got to the place where the exception occours: ...
Hello, I'm developing a program on Microsoft Surface. And I didn't succeed to make disable completely the shadow. Here is my problem : http://i61.servimg.com/u/f61/11/31/25/01/sans_t10.png Heres is the XAML code : <s:ScatterViewItem Height="130" x:Name="jetons1" Width="180" CanScale="False" BorderThickness="0" ShowsActiva...
Hi everybody. I'm working currently on a simple project which consist of a ScatterView with a lot of items and then a Navigation (Implemented as many buttons). The problem is that i will like to have the ScatterView on top of everything, so that users can interact on the whole window as they want. I tried different things: If I put ...
Hi I have an app that creates a variable number of ScatterviewItems based on which tagged object is placed on the surface table. The ScatterViewItems are added programatically to the ScatterView based on info looked up in a DB The Scatterview does a good job of displaying this info However, I would like them to be evenly distribut...
Hi I would like to animate a ScatterView Control using Expression Blend However, it seems that Blend doesn't recognise this control and nothing is visible on the design surface despite it being in the xaml Is there an addon or something that you need to get Blend to recognise controls that are specific to MS Surface? Have been googli...
Hi, I have a scatterview with some items in it which I place with Orientation und Center. Now I want to have the possibility to reset the positions of the scatterviewitems after scaling, rotating and moving them, while the program is running. At the moment I do it this way: private void Reset_ContactTapGesture(object sender, Microsof...
Using ScatterView control shipped in Windows Touch WPF. I want to prevent inertia from happening on a scatterview item. But I still want to allow user to move, scale and rotate the item. So I try this... ScatterviewItem svi = new ScatterviewItem(); svi.ManipulationDelta += OnManipulationDelta; ... void OnManipulationDelta(...
The ManipluationDelta event has the IsInertial property. Unfortunately it appears that a scatterview item 'ManipulationDelta' event does not fire. Only its ContainerManipulationDelta event fires, but the ContainerManipulationEventArgs does not expose the IsInertial property. So is there any other way to determine when a scatterview item...
Hi, Normally I use the following construction to render a list of different items: <ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding DesktopVM.Content}" ItemTemplateSelector="{StaticResource EntityTemplateSelector}"> <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel> <ItemsPanelTemplate> <Canvas HorizontalAlignment="St...
Hi, I want to detect gestures on my scatterview (so not on elements inside the scatterview). I found that the surfaceInkCanvas has some gesture possibilities but how can I put a kind of invisible surfaceinkcanvas inside my scatterview? Thanx ...
Hello, I have two problems using the Scatterview wich I can't solve: I want to databind to the Zindex of each scatterviewItem just in one way: from xaml to my source code. The problem is that the property: ZIndex in my code is never called. Other bindings to scatterviewitems such as position, width, height,... work very well. The s...
I have a ScatterViewItem and would like to change the rotation center to be to the right rather than the center of the rectangle. Is there any way to accomplish this in WPF? Thanks ...
I've got an issue with data-binding with a WPF application I'm working on. Essentially I've got a class document which contains a IDocumentPaginatorSource property containing the contents of an XPS document. In my Main Window I've got a ScatterView which I create ScatterViewItems for programmatically. When a button is pressed, a new Docu...
Hi, I developped the example given by Microsoft to drag and drop and object from a scatterview to a surface list box. The scatterview is working, I can move the objects on it. But when I try to drag and drop them on the Surface ListBox nothing happen. I posed a breakpoint on the method OnDragSourcePreviewContactDown but it doesn't ent...
By default, when manipulating a ScatterViewItem control it will rotate about its own center point. Is there any way to alter this such that the control rotates about another point, for example rotate about its own top left corner? ...