WP7 pivot headers stop animating when I scoll too fast

i have a pivot control with around 20 items that are data binded to an observable collection. One of these items has a long text inside, and I think it delays a bit to data bind. when i scroll too fast and pass this item, the headers start to beh开发者_运维问答ave strange, the highlighted header disappears from the screen and i see the other headers. the animation of headers stops.

How can i fix this? any ideas? You can reproduce this problem on a device. thanx

I would have though that having 20 pivot items was more likely to be the cause of the problem, rather than a long pivot title. However, from a user experience point-of-view I would suggest that 20 pivot items is not going to provide a good user experience especially as all pivot items are loaded on when the pivot is started, so performance is likely to be poor, too.

I would suggest that you consider an alternative approach. Perhaps you could use the Panorama to provide a Hub-like experience with your data grouped into different Panorama items. You could then use a Pivot on secondary pages to show group contents where appropriate.

I can't say that I've experienced this, but then I haven't found a need to use a Pivot with 20 pages.

Could it be that if you're finding the need to flick that quikly through the pages that another UX would be more appropriate?

Perhaps a listbox to present a choice of items allowing ultra smooth and fast scrolling, from which the user can choose to select an item and drill down for details.

The databound project template provides some out of the box handling to demonstrate the concept, but don't be show to roll your own in a vanilla project template.

I've experienced the same issue with a pivot control with only 4 pivot items. The animation gets screwed up when the pivot item containing a long list is selected, so I'm guessing that because pivots don't load their data until the item is selected, that the pivot control is getting screwed up trying to load the long list while animating...so it gives up on the animation.

I haven't really figured out what to do about this yet. One solution is to not bind the data in the pivot item until that item is selected. This isn't really ideal, but it would likely solve the animation issue.