ScrollItem Control Pattern

Describes guidelines and conventions for implementing IScrollItemProvider, including information about methods. The ScrollItem control pattern is used to support individual child controls of containers that implement IScrollProvider. The existence of the ScrollItem control pattern on a control does not imply that its container or any ancestor must implement the Scroll control pattern.

When the container does implement the Scroll control pattern, the ScrollItem control pattern acts as a communication channel between a child control and its container to ensure that the container can change the currently visible content (or region) within its viewport to display the child control. For examples of controls that implement this control pattern, see Control Types and Their Supported Control Patterns.

This topic contains the following sections.

• Implementation Guidelines and Conventions
• Required Members for IScrollItemProvider
• Related topics

Implementation Guidelines and Conventions

When implementing the ScrollItem control pattern, note the following guidelines and conventions:

• Items contained within a Window or Canvas control are not required to implement the IScrollItemProvider interface. As an alternative, however, they must expose a valid location for the IUIAutomationElement::CurrentBoundingRectangle (or CachedBoundingRectangle) property. This will allow a Microsoft UI Automation client application to use the IUIAutomationScrollPattern control pattern methods on the container to display the child item.

Required Members for IScrollItemProvider

The following method is required for implementing the IScrollItemProvider interface.

Required members	Member type	Notes
ScrollIntoView	Method	None

 

This control pattern has no associated properties or events.

Related topics

Control Types and Their Supported Control Patterns

Selection Control Pattern

UI Automation Control Patterns Overview

UI Automation Tree Overview