WP7 Cascade Behavior
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Join For FreeWindows Phone 7 is all about clean layouts and beautiful transitions.
Unfortunately, we are left to generate many of these tranitions
ourselves as WP7 will not ship with these great effects. The listbox
shows of several . I put together a simple trigger action that allows
you to apply cascading animations to a listbox. Simply create an
animation in in a resource dictionary within your item template and
reference it from your trigger action. You can write a custom delay
generator as well as set the animation interval. Most importantly the
animations respect virtualized lists; click on one of the items in the
list to invoke the exit animation, once it has completed scroll down,
you will see that items that were not in the view port were not
animated, this ensures the best performance. In production you would
hide the list or transition to a new page so these list items would
never be seen. The code has not been fully tested and there are a few
more features that would be nice to have but it is a good launching
point. Take a look at ItemsControlExtensions for some great extension
methods for virtualized items controls.
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