I am using a Winforms ListBox as a small list of events, and want to populate it so that the last event (bottom) is visible. The SelectionMode
is set to none. The user can scroll the list but I would prefer it start out scrolled to the end.
Looking at the lack of support for things like ScrollIntoView
, EnsureVisible
, I am assuming I will need to create a custom control that inherits from ListBox; however I'm not sure what to do from there.
Some pointers?
I believe you can do that easily by setting the TopIndex
property appropriately.
For example:
int visibleItems = listBox.ClientSize.Height / listBox.ItemHeight;
listBox.TopIndex = Math.Max(listBox.Items.Count - visibleItems + 1, 0);
Scroll to the bottom:
listbox.TopIndex = listbox.Items.Count - 1;
Scroll to the bottom, and select the last item:
listbox.SelectedIndex = listbox.Items.Count - 1;
This is what I ended up with for WPF (.Net Framework 4.6.1):
Scroll.ToBottom(listBox);
Using the following utility class:
public partial class Scroll
{
private static ScrollViewer FindViewer(DependencyObject root)
{
var queue = new Queue<DependencyObject>(new[] { root });
do
{
var item = queue.Dequeue();
if (item is ScrollViewer) { return (ScrollViewer)item; }
var count = VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(item);
for (var i = 0; i < count; i++) { queue.Enqueue(VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(item, i)); }
} while (queue.Count > 0);
return null;
}
public static void ToBottom(ListBox listBox)
{
var scrollViewer = FindViewer(listBox);
if (scrollViewer != null)
{
scrollViewer.ScrollChanged += (o, args) =>
{
if (args.ExtentHeightChange > 0) { scrollViewer.ScrollToBottom(); }
};
}
}
}