Disabling Some Autoscroll Functionality

Hi,
I've got a large collection of forms inside of a Panel, and the panel has Autoscroll = true. When a panel has Autoscroll on, the default behavior is for the "viewing area" of the scroller to make the upper-left corner of a control visisble if it gets focus at a time when that control is outside the scroller's client area.

Now I want to make it so that there is an auto scroll bar but it does not scroll to a component that gets the focus. I have found that this scrolling is annoying to the user rather than helpful in this case. Thanks if anyone can help.

BTW: Most of the time I'm dealing w/ a vertical scroller.

Well, here's my suggestion but it seems kinda hack-ish...

- Create a new Panel class that captures scroll events (see http://blogs.msdn.com/rickbrew/archi...24/165493.aspx)

- On the new Panel's scroll event, store the AutoScrollPosition

- Have the new Panel's controls handle GotFocus events, and set the new Panel's AutoScrollPosition to the old position which you have stored.


There might be a better way to do this though. Maybe you should consider an alternative.

It turns out that the scroll-to-focus scrolling does not actually generate any messages, however that example BMJ gave was helpful since it showed me that the AutoScrollPosition property returns negative values for some twisted reason.

I have heard it suggested that one can make derived controls and set their ConstrolStyle.Selectable to false prevents them from getting focus but I just tried this on some tab controls and they definitely still get focus.

So now I've got a hack with a custom window that can "snap back" to a store scroll position when needed. However, there's a flicker. Is there a way to somehow suspend the drawing of a control and its child components during the scroll?

You can try sending a WM_SETREDRAW message to set the panel not to redraw, adjust the AutoScrollPosition, then set the redraw back.