Rotational scroller with IScrollInfo
Ben Constable has published a set of tutorials/posts on IScrollInfo, in which he explains how one can create custom scrollers. I found these posts very interesting and decided to give it a little twist. Generally the scrollbar that you see on the right is used to scroll the content up/down. In Ben's posts, he uses the TranslateTransform to move the content up/down depending on the VerticalOffset.I decided to replace the translation with rotation. Instead of TranslateTransform I use a RotateTransform and map the vertical offset to an angle between 0-180. Although such a rotational scroller is pretty useless, it does show a different way in which one can use the IScrollInfo interface. How about a simple dial control? We can hide the horizontal scrollbar and replace the vertical scrollbar with a custom ControlTemplate. The inner content could then be custom drawn to depict a dial.
Check out the Flash video
posted by Pavan Podila @ 8:01 PM
