Bubbling scroll events from a ListView to its parent

Question

In my WPF application I have a ListView whose ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility is set to Disabled. It is contained within a

Answer 1

You need to capture the preview mouse wheel event in the inner listview

MyListView.PreviewMouseWheel += HandlePreviewMouseWheel;

Or in the XAML

<ListView ... PreviewMouseWheel="HandlePreviewMouseWheel">

then stop the event from scrolling the listview and raise the event in the parent listview.

private void HandlePreviewMouseWheel(object sender, MouseWheelEventArgs e) {
    if (!e.Handled) {
        e.Handled = true;
        var eventArg = new MouseWheelEventArgs(e.MouseDevice, e.Timestamp, e.Delta);
        eventArg.RoutedEvent = UIElement.MouseWheelEvent;
        eventArg.Source = sender;
        var parent = ((Control)sender).Parent as UIElement;
        parent.RaiseEvent(eventArg);
    }
}

Creds go to @robert-wagner who solved this for me a few months ago.

Answer 2

Another nice solution using attached behavior. I like it because it decoples the solution from the Control.

Create a no scroling behavior which will catch the PreviewMouseWheel(Tunneling) event and raise a new MouseWheelEvent(Bubbling)

public sealed class IgnoreMouseWheelBehavior : Behavior<UIElement>
{

  protected override void OnAttached( )
  {
    base.OnAttached( );
    AssociatedObject.PreviewMouseWheel += AssociatedObject_PreviewMouseWheel ;
  }

protected override void OnDetaching( )
{
    AssociatedObject.PreviewMouseWheel -= AssociatedObject_PreviewMouseWheel;
    base.OnDetaching( );
}

void AssociatedObject_PreviewMouseWheel(object sender, MouseWheelEventArgs e)
{

    e.Handled = true;

    var e2 = new MouseWheelEventArgs(e.MouseDevice,e.Timestamp,e.Delta);
    e2.RoutedEvent = UIElement.MouseWheelEvent;
        AssociatedObject.RaiseEvent(e2);

    }
}

Then attach the behavior to any UIElement with nested ScrollViewers case

 <ListBox Name="ForwardScrolling">
    <i:Interaction.Behaviors>
        <local:IgnoreMouseWheelBehavior />
    </i:Interaction.Behaviors>
</ListBox>

all credit to Josh Einstein Blog