Does anypne know a good WPF carousel control working with touch ?

Question

Dear all,

I am building touch application and I am actually on a customer project where I need to implement a list of item as a carousel or cover flow like.
As the goal is to not re invent the wheel, I am looking for a ready made, that can be easily cutsomized and essentially working or compatiple with Touch event and gesture.

As I am not a designer, this is the part that I am not so interrrested to build as time schedule is tight

Does anyone have nay good link as open source or buy ?

Thnak for help

reagrds
Serge

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Answer 1

Hi Serge Calderara,

I am sorry that there is no build in carousel control in WPF working with touch, however, I think you could add touch relative event to achieve this goal, it is not complex, if you want to use a complete one, I think you could refer to below open source and third party control:

http://wpfcarousel.codeplex.com/

http://www.telerik.com/products/wpf/carousel.aspx

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Answer 2

I have see the link you provide but gets difficulty to add touch or I miss understood something

What would be the approach to add those touch implementation.

A sample would really help and save me some time.

regards

serge

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Answer 3

Hi Serge Calderara,

I will follow up your thread later.

best regards,

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Answer 4

ok thanks for help

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Answer 5

Hi Serge,

Please refer to UIElement.TouchDown, UIElement.ManipulationStarted and other related functionality see how WPF support touch and gesture.

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Answer 6

What do you mean ?

Could you provide  sample how to do, I finghting quite long with that I could not find proper solution

regards

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Answer 7

Hi Serge,

  I think you could reffer to below project:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/181835/WPF-Carousel-Control

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Answer 8

I have chek that already for long like others existing and problem is that they do not support Touch gesture and have no idea how to implement touch gesture bring the control touch enable.

In addition to that the one you post the ling is using PathListBox which is not supported touch acording to MSND class definition so its start to be hard work.

I am surprise that none exist :-(

Can you provide simple sample on the best way to add touch enable a WPF control ?

Let say I want o build  Touch enable version of the PathListBox control, I guess I will create myTouchControl which inherit from PathListBox but then how to add Touch eneble event to my new control ? this is what I am looking for since the beginin

regards

serge

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Answer 9

Hi Serge,

     Actually the WPF carousel control should be self-defined, if you wish the carousel item respound to Touch event, you should use controls that respond to touch, which you can refference to the site here,http://www.ningzhang.org/2010/10/08/touch-support-in-wpf/,

   a relative sample is http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/168975/WPF-2D-Image-Carousel , this sample is not touch-support, if you want to add touch events, you can edit MainWindow.xaml, adding Touch or Manipulation operations, for example,

<TwoDCarousel:ImageCarousel x:Name="MyImageCarousel" Margin="24.75,127.25,25.25,127.75"
                                    Image1Source="Images/WOLV068_1024.jpg"
                                    Image2Source="Images/WARMACH004_1024.jpg"
                                    Image3Source="Images/Wolv55_1024.jpg"
                                    Image4Source="Images/crysis_06.jpg"
                                    Image5Source="Images/Hwan Kim.jpg" IsManipulationEnabled="True"
                                    ManipulationStarting="MyImageCarousel_ManipulationStarting"
                                    ManipulationDelta="MyImageCarousel_ManipulationDelta"
                                    ManipulationCompleted="MyImageCarousel_ManipulationCompleted" />

code-behind, you should modify the Carousel items after the Touch or Manipulation operations happened, you can refferrece these site  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee649090.aspx , http://nui.joshland.org/2010/04/why-wont-wpf-controls-work-with-touch.html.

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