Centering selected item in a scroll viewer

Question

I am trying to center a selected item in a ListView inside a ScrollViewer and struggling to calculate the vertical offset that I should be setting the ScrollViewer relative

Answer 1

Try ListView.ScrollIntoView() or ListView.MakeVisible first to scroll the container of the item into view and work around it being possibly virtualized out of the UI. Then use ListView.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromIndex() to get the container of the item and then the VisualTreeHelper to get its position relative to the ScrollViewer. Then scroll the scrollviewer by the calculated offset.

*EDIT - Example positioning logic:

Get the VisualTreeHelperExtensions from WinRT XAML Toolkit to get access to the ScrollViewer easily with GetFirstDescendantOfType() extension method that wraps some calls to the VisualTreeHelper.

XAML

C#

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Windows.Foundation;
using Windows.UI.Xaml;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;
using WinRTXamlToolkit.Controls.Extensions;

namespace ListViewItemCentering
{
    /// 

    /// An empty page that can be used on its own or navigated to within a Frame.
    /// 
    public sealed partial class MainPage : Page
    {
        private Random random = new Random();
        public MainPage()
        {
            this.InitializeComponent();
            this.listView.ItemsSource = Enumerable.Range(1, 1000);
            this.listView.SelectionChanged += OnListViewSelectionChanged;
        }

        private async void OnListViewSelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs selectionChangedEventArgs)
        {
            if (listView.SelectedItem == null)
            {
                return;
            }

            var item = listView.SelectedItem;

            // Calculations relative to screen or ListView
            var listViewItem = (FrameworkElement)listView.ContainerFromItem(item);

            if (listViewItem == null)
            {
                listView.ScrollIntoView(item);
            }

            while (listViewItem == null)
            {
                await Task.Delay(1); // wait for scrolling to complete - it takes a moment
                listViewItem = (FrameworkElement)listView.ContainerFromItem(item);
            }

            var topLeft =
                listViewItem
                    .TransformToVisual(listView)
                    .TransformPoint(new Point()).Y;
            var lvih = listViewItem.ActualHeight;
            var lvh = listView.ActualHeight;
            var desiredTopLeft = (lvh - lvih) / 2.0;
            var desiredDelta = topLeft - desiredTopLeft;

            // Calculations relative to the ScrollViewer within the ListView
            var scrollViewer = listView.GetFirstDescendantOfType();
            var currentOffset = scrollViewer.VerticalOffset;
            var desiredOffset = currentOffset + desiredDelta;
            scrollViewer.ScrollToVerticalOffset(desiredOffset);

            // better yet if building for Windows 8.1 to make the scrolling smoother use:
            // scrollViewer.ChangeView(null, desiredOffset, null);
        }

        private async void ButtonBase_OnClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            this.listView.SelectedIndex = random.Next(0, ((IEnumerable)this.listView.ItemsSource).Count());
        }
    }
}