Short version
I would like to scroll the ListBox
item into view when the selection is changed.
Long version
I have found a solution to my problem. I was certain that I wasn't the first person to hit this issue so I continued to search StackOverflow for solutions and I stumbled upon this answer by David about how ItemContainerGenerator works with a grouped list.
David's solution was to delay accessing the ItemContainerGenerator
until after the rendering process.
I have implemented this solution, with a few changes that I will detail after.
private void ListBox_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
ListBox control = (ListBox)sender;
if (control.IsGrouping)
{
if (control.ItemContainerGenerator.Status == GeneratorStatus.ContainersGenerated)
Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(DispatcherPriority.Render, new Action(DelayedBringIntoView));
else
control.ItemContainerGenerator.StatusChanged += ItemContainerGenerator_StatusChanged;
}
else
control.ScrollIntoView(control.SelectedItem);
}
private void ItemContainerGenerator_StatusChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (ItemContainerGenerator.Status != GeneratorStatus.ContainersGenerated)
return;
ItemContainerGenerator.StatusChanged -= ItemContainerGenerator_StatusChanged;
Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(DispatcherPriority.Render, new Action(DelayedBringIntoView));
}
private void DelayedBringIntoView()
{
var item = ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(SelectedItem) as ListBoxItem;
if (item != null)
item.BringIntoView();
}
Changes:
ItemContainerGenerator
approach when it IsGrouping
is true
, otherwise continue to use the default ScrollIntoView
. ItemContainerGenerator
is ready, if so dispatch the action, otherwise listen for the ItemContainerGenerator
status to change.. This is important as if it is ready then the StatusChanged
event will never fire.