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FlipView and Problems with Input Controls – Part 1

2015-12-06 at 17:18 2 comments

In the Universal Windows Platform, you can use a control called FlipView to present a collection of items to the user. These items are shown one at a time and the user can perform swipe gestures (a.k.a flips) to navigate to the next or previous one in the sequence. While the FlipView is generally designed to display content that can only be viewed by the user (like e.g. an image gallery), I decided to use it as part of a forms layout where logically related input controls are put on the same page, and when the user is finished with them, he or she can swipe to the next page to fill out its form items. However, there are some issues with this approach when the user is using the touch keyboard that comes with Windows.

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