Transitioner question about disabling transitions

[jbooth88]

I just started playing with the Transitioner control in this toolkit.
I like how easy it is to use this control as a paged wizard, but I wondering if it's possible to disable all transition effects.

I tried implementing techniques explained in the wiki but didn't get anywhere.
Using TransitionerSlide and BackwardWipe sometimes had an effect, sometimes not.
TransitionAssist.DisableTransitions="True" had no effect whatsoever

Any suggestions?

[nicolaihenriksen]

@jbooth88 I have not played around with the Transitioner a whole lot, but I just spent 10 minutes playing with it in the demo tool.

I agree that TransitionAssist.DisableTransitions="True" seems to have no effect whatsoever. Surprised me a bit, but to be fair, the documentation hints that it won't work in all places; perhaps the Transitioner itself is one of the places it does not:

Allows transitions to be disabled where supported.

However, I think you should be able to accomplish what you want by levering the TransistionerSlide.ForwardWipe and TransistionerSlide.BackwardWipe. If you try setting all of them on all your slides to a SlideWipe with zero duration I think you get closer to what you want. Something like this:

<materialDesign:TransitionerSlide>
  <materialDesign:TransitionerSlide.BackwardWipe>
    <materialDesign:SlideWipe Duration="0" />
  </materialDesign:TransitionerSlide.BackwardWipe>
  <materialDesign:TransitionerSlide.ForwardWipe>
    <materialDesign:SlideWipe Duration="0" />
  </materialDesign:TransitionerSlide.ForwardWipe>
    <!-- slide content goes here -->
</materialDesign:TransitionerSlide>

The key thing to note here is that a transition from slide A to slide B is not necessarily the same transition used in the transition from slide B to slide A. Each slide defines a transition moving forward or backwards it seems; so to disable the transitions, you will need to disable both forward and backward for all slides. At least that is my take on it.

Again, I don't really have a lot of knowledge of this control, so I was just playing around with it.

[jbooth88]

Thanks for the help. I missed the ForwardWipe property. Your suggestion did get the effect I wanted.

Instead however I tried setting these properties to null. I also set OpeningEffect to null in case it had a default animation. This appears to have the same effect. I assume this second approach has better performance, because maybe this way the framework will skip trying to draw a storyboard with zero duration? I'm not experienced with WPF animation framework so I honestly have no idea which approach is better.

I really like how easy it is to use this control to simulate paged navigation. :)

<materialDesign:TransitionerSlide ForwardWipe="{x:Null}" BackwardWipe="{x:Null}" OpeningEffect="{x:Null}">
    <!-- slide content goes here -->
</materialDesign:TransitionerSlide>

[nicolaihenriksen]

Perfect, I agree that using {x:Null} is probably a better approach! 👍